The moment I saw this, it reminded me of the Interviewing series and Mark denouncing all the terrible advice out there today. Thought I would share with the MT community.
http://www.businessweek.com/management/how-not-to-say-i-was-fired-08302011.html
Good Laugh!
It's amazing that after going through all the advice given my MT, one can read this article and really, confidently file it under the 'for your entertainment' articles.
More than that, burning the bridges of a young manager by retorting "come and get it" to those non-MT people out there could 'flame the fire' out there! Very unprofessional. My guess is that she was lucky to not encounter that young manager again, but to the professionals amongst us, the risk of having that young manager's network intersect our network at a higher level than us is not worth the fleeting satisfaction.
Entertaining...
Very interesting reading ...
Very interesting reading ...
"those people are pure evil."
"In the first place, your new employer’s HR folks probably won’t find out you were fired—that information is typically not conveyed to a prospective employer in an employment verification process. And if they do find out and end up claiming the “we agreed on it” was a lie and terminating you because of it, you’ll know those people are pure evil. You don’t want work for them."
If this were to happen, the 'new employer's HR folks' wouldn't be evil, they'd be promoting ethical behavior within the company - and potentially protecting the company from future liability when this theoretical applicant misleads customers/clients.
I posted there.
That's a stupid article. Often, unethical things sound clever.
Now, of course, I'm tempted to read her stuff just to sound the alarm.
Mark