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Shitty Manager Still Ruining My Life (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago by PropagandaIsUseless@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net
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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?

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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you can get a statement from one of the people that made the call that is the only way I can think of to get proof.

Unfortunately libel is extremely hard to stick in the US but it is absolutely illegal for someone to do what your manager did.

Sadly I have been in the exact situation you are in because I got fired from my last job in the midst of trying to form a union.