So, a couple years back I had a terrible manager. He was a nepotism hire, and didn’t even have a degree, let alone one related to the technical department he managed.
I unwittingly made management look like a joke with my projects and studies, and he took it personally. He made my life a living hell, and set me up to fail, and fired me.
Now, years later, employers are calling him up and he’s badmouthing me so I got ghosted for a second round interview!
Fuck this stupid fucking chud of a man. He made my life so bad I considered checking out of life, left me unemployed for half a year, and I got saddled with 10s of thousands of dollars of debt from said unemployment.
Should I warn employers of this bad egg? “Hey if you contact this employer, my direct manager had personal grievances with me”
Or do I just say nothing since that warning would cause hiring managers to skip over me?
Get a friend to call him, use the typical “all our calls are recorded for quality assurance purposes”, and then pose as a hiring manager who is considering you and record him badmouthing you while recording him. Then talk to an employment lawyer about it with your recording.
Total non sequitor but I always think it’s weird how this is one of like two issues (the other being dst) that don’t break down along ideological lines. Like what’s another issue where you would get Florida, California, Massachusetts and Montana to agree on something and have new york and Texas on the other side of the issue.
