Rude boss - now a missing reference for next prospective employer?
I've been considering quitting my current job for some time now. The employees are incredibly rude (not even to a small, bareable extent.) The gossip goes far beyond the odd insult here and there, and to have your boss yell at you in front of customers is not only very embarassing, but I'm sure it falls under some sort of category wherein said boss could have her a$s severely reprimanded. Needless to say -- I quit this job this afternoon.
What do I do about looking for new work and using references? I have a lot of work experience, but my recent job lasted for roughly 7 months. If I don't use her as a reference, or even worse, if I don't include this as one of my jobs, what will future prospective employers think? If you're a boss, how would you deal with a missing recent reference? And if you were my boss, would you be so petty as to tarnish my image for the sake of stroking your ego, or would you simply recommend me and be done with it?
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I am a boss and when there is a lapse in employment or I think that an applicant is leaving something off on purpose I can find out what that is with a background check. That background check includes every job you every had. If you fill out an application and leave out something it is considered being dishonest and can cause immediate termination.
If your former employer has a Human Resources department, even if that dept. is in another state. Put down that employer with the phone number of the HR department. Most HR workers will not give anyone a bad reference, all they will say is dates worked, title, and maybe salary (depending on state law and corp. policy). On the application where is asks for your supervisor's name, if you did not have a supervisor or friend who will vouch for you use the the word "various" == as in I had many supervisors.
Your problem will come when the potential employer asks why you left this company. If you go on about this gossip and yelling incidents, you will not be hired. Your future employer will not care one bit about your troubles with the former employer and you will just hurt your ability to be hired if you tell them. You need to come up with some reason that you left this job that sounds professional.
FYI the only thing your supervisor could legally get in trouble for is discrimination. Go to www.eeoc.gov to see what constitutes legal discrimination. Since if you quit, you
probably will not qualify for unemployment benefits. As for the nonsense about ego stroking, if your boss is ticked off enough about you he/she will relish tarnishing your image. It happens every day.
First get a friend to call pretending to be your nest job, find out her attitude
honesty is the best policy. put the job on your resume,and explain what had happened. if you were not in the wrong you have nothing to worry about. good luck to you and don't take any crap!!!
Yours is a difficult situation. You should enter that workplace in your resume as part of your working background. You do not need to use your previous employer as a referee. If it was a large business, you may be able to use your boss's manager. If not just list the job as part of your employment and use referees from previous employment.
When asked in future interviews, why you left that place of employment, you could say it was not a pleasant working environment. What you must not do, is to criticise the boss directly with derogatory remarks about her. It might indicate to your prospective new employer that you are the problem. Try to think of a valid reason for leaving, without speaking badly about your ex boss.
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