[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Trivia: How did it come to this?

[Kathryn Cawte]

>
> I learned a few years ago that companies can't give honest references
> anymore.  I was told that if I was asked for a reference for a person
> who'd worked for me, I was to tell them NOTHING other than that the
> person had worked for me.  If they'd been a bad employee I was not to
> warn the other company, because the person could sue our company for
> defamation or something.  If they'd been a good employee I couldn't
> praise them, because then if they did something bad on the new job
> the other company could sue our company for recommending them.
>
> --snazzzybird, who absolutely hates the lawsuit-happy society and all
> that it hath wrought.
>

Well I haven't heard the bit about not giving good references before but i
was under the impression that it's illegal to give someone a bad reference,
you should just refuse to give one.

K