antidope
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Yup. IDK If I told this story before but I was interviewing with a place and the exact same thing happened to me.Job I applied for required a reference from a colleague at my current job and a manager...At my current job. I've legit only had 1 boss the 3 years I've been at my current place so I had to present some...Uhh.. alternative facts in order to fulfill their request. Luckily I'm cool with a manager in another department who was willing to help me, but yeah these places really try to screw you over before they even commit to hiring you. It's crazy.Wait, companies you're applying to actually call your current employer and ask?
My colleague for sure held me down but I got a call from the company I was interviewing with telling me that my references didnt come out well. Come to find out my manager basically gave me a horrible reference and no part of me believes it wasnt intentional. He once blocked me from changing teams because they "needed me" around.
I was livid at the time but lucky for me I save PDFs of every performance review I get and I just pulled those and sent them along to the company, guy was clearly lying I was the best employee they had at the time hands down.
Couldnt do much else about it, and he started sending me passive aggressive emails about me leaving the company too, it was crazy.
But I ended up getting a way better job at a way better company and life goes on.
Asking current supervisors for references always seemed iffy, putting too much power in someones hands who may just not wanna see you shine.