Was at lunch today at a food market in Blanch. Communal seating areas, so you're there eating your lunch unable to avoid ear wigging on other people's conversations.
Anyway, there's three guys sitting beside me from the pharma industry and they're talking about the ins and outs of job references. It's a boring enough conversation but it's in earshot so I listen anyway. They were going on about the perils of giving a bad ref from an employers POV.
The guy sitting directly beside me says to the other two "I got asked for a reference for a guy I worked on a project with one time, they were asking me would I hire him for a position. This guy came in drunk one day!" ...gasps from the other two... "well, he came in hungover. Anyway, I just said I'd consider him an applicant. I didn't say I'd hire him, I didn't say I wouldn't"
Afaik, there's only two types of references, a good one and one that's not a good one. The former gets you the job, the latter tells the employer that you've to be avoided.
Am I right in thinking my fellow diner was an absolute prick in this instance?
I was actually kicking myself afterwards that I hadn't got the bottle to out myself as an earwigger and call him a cunt.
Anyway, there's three guys sitting beside me from the pharma industry and they're talking about the ins and outs of job references. It's a boring enough conversation but it's in earshot so I listen anyway. They were going on about the perils of giving a bad ref from an employers POV.
The guy sitting directly beside me says to the other two "I got asked for a reference for a guy I worked on a project with one time, they were asking me would I hire him for a position. This guy came in drunk one day!" ...gasps from the other two... "well, he came in hungover. Anyway, I just said I'd consider him an applicant. I didn't say I'd hire him, I didn't say I wouldn't"
Afaik, there's only two types of references, a good one and one that's not a good one. The former gets you the job, the latter tells the employer that you've to be avoided.
Am I right in thinking my fellow diner was an absolute prick in this instance?
I was actually kicking myself afterwards that I hadn't got the bottle to out myself as an earwigger and call him a cunt.
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