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Originally Posted by Wormius
Not to mention that most employers, even if they fired an employee that didn't fit the role, would just say they were laid off.
Unless the employer was a jerk, or the firing was for something criminal or particularly bad.
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Haven't things changed in regards to what an employer can say when called for a reference? That you have to be pretty careful about what you say? It's been a few years but when I was managing a store, our regional director said if we got called, we could pretty much only verify dates of employment and if they were a good employee, we could give them a positive reference. If they weren't, we were told to just answer with "I can't speak to that at this time" - I was told we could get sued for saying anything else. Anyone know anything about that?
My last job, my supervisor got in some poop for speaking with a prospective employer calling for a reference on a former employer, where we could all hear her. I don't know why she was even asked to give a reference - she was not in a supervisory position when the employee worked there, and she did not work directly with the individual in question at that time. By rights, they should have spoken to the assistant director, since that was how that particular 'food chain' worked.
