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Third Party Vendor Needed: Job References
Monday, January 14, 2008

I do not trust business people, especially supervisors or managers.

They speak. Their lips move: I see a liar.

Why do I feel this way? Personal experience.

It doesn't matter how many good reviews received while on-the-job, once you are gone from the organization, do not expect these individuals to keep their word. Yes, of course, they'll be a reference, but they are saying anything to get rid of you.

It's gotten so bad these days, a man won a lawsuit to keep his ex-employer from bad mouthing him.

Has anyone ever bad-mouthed me? Once, many many years ago.

Today, a third party has to be utilized to make sure all these references aren't calling one an embezzler or incompetent boob. Because you know how corporate America is today - it's nothing personal, it's just the business rules of the vindictive, bigoted, stupid and spiteful.

Yeah, I'm bitter.

I haven't started the search yet, but is there a business that provides vetted references? What do I mean? There's a company that provides, excuses - ah, alibis - as a cover for people who are supposed to be at a specific location, yet are not.

I want to find a company - legit - that works like an official reference trust or a credit scoring service. This company carries out the task of making sure references are vetted, checked, and asked a series of questions.

After 12 months, the reference information expires. This leaves the managerial liars at the former company free of legal entanglements. They are released from being asked the same questions multiple times and providing multiple fraudulent and inflammatory answers.

In addition, people forget. Why have them answer the same questions over and over again over a period of (gawd forbid) years?

Through this plan, all sides win.

If a company can use testimonies of their "customers" - whom I suspect are really actors - as proof of their level of quality. Why not have a company that keeps references for working people?

Labels: corporate America, job hunting, references