I’m saying that when you’re given an opportunity to list references, list people who won’t give you a negative reference.
And sometimes the non-specific nature of employment verification can hurt you. A common rule for companies is only to verify when they worked there and whether they’re eligible for re-hire.
A good example from my personal past is that I worked at a company where I experienced an on-the-job injury in 2018 that required cosmetic surgery. Their insurance required the surgery occur within 2 years to cover it, but the wound had to finish “developing” for a year before they could do the surgery, so I had a 1-year window to get the surgery.
I scheduled the surgery with about 9 months to spare, but the date ended up being in 2020, and because of Covid I couldn’t get it done in the 2-year window. I had left the job in the meantime, so the former employer reached out with a settlement agreement to basically pay me cash that I could use for the surgery after Covid died down.
As part of the settlement language, there was a clause that I couldn’t be employed by the company in the future, which was fine by me because it was a retail management job I did after college while searching for a real job.
So if someone calls up that former employer and gets the standard response, it would be that I worked from X date to Y date and am not eligible for re-hire.
I explained that when interviewing for a job in 2021 that I ended up getting. They told me after hiring that I would not have been given the position if I hadn’t given them a heads-up about it because they were told I was ineligible for re-hire by the previous company.
I’m saying that when you’re given an opportunity to list references, list people who won’t give you a negative reference.
And sometimes the non-specific nature of employment verification can hurt you. A common rule for companies is only to verify when they worked there and whether they’re eligible for re-hire.
A good example from my personal past is that I worked at a company where I experienced an on-the-job injury in 2018 that required cosmetic surgery. Their insurance required the surgery occur within 2 years to cover it, but the wound had to finish “developing” for a year before they could do the surgery, so I had a 1-year window to get the surgery.
I scheduled the surgery with about 9 months to spare, but the date ended up being in 2020, and because of Covid I couldn’t get it done in the 2-year window. I had left the job in the meantime, so the former employer reached out with a settlement agreement to basically pay me cash that I could use for the surgery after Covid died down.
As part of the settlement language, there was a clause that I couldn’t be employed by the company in the future, which was fine by me because it was a retail management job I did after college while searching for a real job.
So if someone calls up that former employer and gets the standard response, it would be that I worked from X date to Y date and am not eligible for re-hire.
I explained that when interviewing for a job in 2021 that I ended up getting. They told me after hiring that I would not have been given the position if I hadn’t given them a heads-up about it because they were told I was ineligible for re-hire by the previous company.
this just keeps getting more depressing as I’m reading and it’s making me think a life of crime might be preferable, honestly.
at least if I fuck that up I can still get a room and food.