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[–] • 3 pts

The idea of references for jobs is a f’d up concept imo.

If you were good and left, they probably are jaded. If they let you go for any reason, you’d never use them as a reference.

The only way you could get good legit references is either if it was an unpaid internship and the reference basically was the pay, or you had to leave for circumstances out of your control.

If you had to leave for reasons out of your control, it implies you probably stayed longer than you should have. Meaning it dilutes the reason for even needing a reference, since you don’t ever leave jobs.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

The idea of references for jobs is a f’d up concept imo.

Even more fucked up concept is tossing resumes in the trash due to "long employment gap(s)," as if that's supposed to be some sort of red flag. Oh, I see you've been having trouble finding work recently... well that means it looks like you're just not a good fit. Goodbye!

[–] • 1 pt

Ayep. "Hur dur you were unemployed, that's bad!"

...or I lived frugally and don't need to work every day of my life to pay the bills?

[–] • 1 pt

There is no more throwing resumes away. Algorithms sort all that now days to limit any resume human interaction to a minimum.

Now with Microsofts woke Office Algorithms you can be sure Shaniqwas resume that some social worker or diversity hiring coach created is accepted and yours is deleted to /NULL.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Thanks for reminding me to create a word docx full of NIGGER tomorrow morning.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Says here your names tequan O'Neil?

Oh yea that's a typo to get past your woke AI so I could get an interview it's Thomas.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt (edited )

Don't bother.

If your job isn't crap now, it will be.

You get your money coming in the door and when things get too rough, you walk out the door, ideally into more money.

[–] • 0 pt

Walk out the door in heels made for a tranny, then sell those heels online as "used women's shoes", and proceed to fall into a bigger pile of money amassing outside that door.

[–] • 1 pt

Glassdoor.com

Reminder, if it looks like a job where you could "make manager" quickly, it means they have high turnover. Both in the more experienced people in the position you are being hired for, and their managers, meaning it won't even be worth it anyway. I'll take a good paying job with a good culture over self-importance any day. Those good jobs don't have the turnover necessary to make "upward mobility" immediately accessible.

[–] • 1 pt

Companies can only confirm you worked there, they cannot say anything about your performance or why you were fired. A large bank’s recruiter told me this when I was concerned about being fired from a past job.

[–] • 0 pt

I go through the process of updating these every few years...just to never have any of them ever called.

[–] • 0 pt

If you are smart, that's exactly how reference checks should work.

You find people in your role who changed their profile online to a new company and call them to find out why they left before you go to work at the company.