Trivia: How did it come to this?
spinelli372003
spin01 at aol.com
Wed Feb 2 21:48:28 UTC 2005
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at n...>
wrote:
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
Basically the only way around this is that in most applications there
is a place that says "work references" and then a spot for "personal
references" depending on which space your asking for you can do the
following. if it is work related then you can say yes or no he/she
did or did not work for us. and then you can indicate the exact
dates. thats it. on the other hand if you are giving a personal
reference then you can get more involved in the question / answer
part. if a prospective employer asks if this person is a good worker
you can say yes/no if asked you can say I would/would not hire them
etc. but in order to get the personal reference it has to be called
at a persons home or personal cell phone not on a work related
phone.
sherry
who deals with this daily lol.
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