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How would this affect future employment if my future manager does not contact past employers?? I am upset and feel this is the time to vent about the problems in the workplace but I’m not sure if there would be consequences for a future supervisor who would know nothing about my previous experience.
How would this affect future employment if my future manager does not contact past employers?? I am upset and feel this is the time to vent about the problems in the workplace but I’m not sure if there would be consequences for a future supervisor who would know nothing about my previous experience.
Don't do it. Vent to your friends. Vent here. Don't send a letter to your ex-boss.
It's a bad idea. In the US, where a lot of people are very litigious, it could result in legal consequences, but even past that, I'd advise not to - depending on the industry you work it, it is possible it could come back to haunt you later.
If you really, really want to say something, post a review on Glassdoor, but I'd only recommend that if your ex-employer is large enough that they won't be able to pin it onto you for the same reason. A lot of people are vindictive bastards who will want to get back at you for a slight, and while I can far more easily see it from the ex-employee's side than the ex-employer, you still have to understand that from their side it's similar emotionally, that they will probably feel they have been picked on unfairly, as wrong as that may objectively be, and so will rubbish you to anyone they end up talking to about it.
Don't do it. Vent to your friends. Vent here. Don't send a letter to your ex-boss.
Agreed with Deb (and looks like most others). Vent to friends, vent here, get a gym membership and go punch a bag, but no letters to an ex-boss. There is very little (to none) upside and lots of risk of something negative happening. You don't know if a future boss or contact will have some personal connection to your ex-boss and talk in a social situation.
Anger and frustration will go away in a relatively short time, but a personal conversation between an old-boss and a possible new connection could haunt you a long time.
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Don't do it
