We've got a mole
"It is perfectly legal to give a bad reference if it is truthful and substantive. In other words, if you were lazy and shit and they can prove it, they are allowed to say so. Many ex-employers can't be bothered, so they simply say "no comment", which is a dead cert for getting on to the "application rejected" pile."





Yup.


An ex of mine worked in HR. She once gave me a very handy list of 'damned with faint praise' and 'don't employ this fool' type of innocuous-sounding, non-committal phrases. Unfortunately, I went and lost the damn thing.





Re: The 'untrue' reference.....


A bloke that I used to work with was a complete and utter twunt. He should never have been employed to work with computers as he could barely switch them on never mind actually find any faults in the software.

The company built up a false case against him but were undone when someone (whistles innocently) spent a couple of days (when they should have been doing some work) going through the records to prove that he was in the clear.

The management weren't very happy about this so, a month or so later, trumped up a disciplinary charge and sacked him on the spot. Unfortunately 'someone' told matey to read the paragraph in his contract about written and verbal warnings and see if they matched up with the way the company dismissed him. Lo and behold, they had forgotten the first verbal warning.

Then 'someone' approached a manager and, oh so casually, mentioned that sacked matey was off to get legal representation. Management shat themselves and said "We're fucked!" I was tasked with finding out, on the quiet like, if matey would be willing to drop the case. Of course, he 'somehow' got the impression that he was onto a winner by continuing with his claim. Sure enough, he was awarded an unfair dismissal and a fair old lump of compensation.

Of course, his case was mightily helped when 'someone' could provide testimony that the company had been rather lenient with another incompetent twit. Said twit's continuing employment, despite being a brain-dead borderline alcoholic had nothing, I repeat nothing, to do with the wee factette that he was going out with one of the female managers sister at the time and that his bestest buddy was said managers boyfriend. The same 'someone' had also discovered a backed-up email inbox detailing the manager, her boyfriend, a former manager (it was her pc that had the emails stored on it) and the borderline alcoholic arranging to blame a project fuck-up on a recently departed (in the quit sense, not the gone to meet their maker sense) team member.

The company always wondered how such an incompetent managed to second-guess their every move but, thanks to them being a shower of underhanded cunts, they had a whole range of disgruntled ex-employees to choose from.
(Fanta Menace Is tall enough to see over the fence, Mon 13 Aug 2007, 10:32, Reply)