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Old 11-04-2016, 03:56 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Amethyst View Post
If it's their livelihood, you would think they could spend a couple minutes to give me a quick call or email to let me know.

Putting my name as a reference without mentioning it to me shows poor judgement, so I would no longer feel confident giving the person a good reference.

That being said, the only people who have ever put me as a reference without telling me, weren't going to get a good reference in the first place.
Last time that happened to me, I got a phone call from a landlord for a reference for a guy I evicted for trashing the place and not paying rent lol.

Work-wise, last time I had to ask for references (about 2 months ago), the company gave me a boiler-plate e-mail to send to all my references, providing them a link to a form that they had to submit. I thought that was kinda weird, but also quite efficient.
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