'If you hire her, I'll quit': Employee terminates job candidate's offer after finding out the candidate is her old boss

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    wat ' | Sloep Scola "first'; 1) % Scolumns) "last"; prt_attachment link) ta els escattre esc, attr — "I stopped the offer in its tracks; If she's hired, I quit." 98869 B
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    I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!! About a decade ago, I was hired for a pretty unique job in my field of study, and I was so excited to start. I'm flown down to train for a week with my new manager, who had interviewed me and I thought
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    seemed nice enough at the time. I was very wrong. I'll keep the description simple: this manager was literally The Worst. I quickly discovered she was a micromanaging southern mean girl - definitely that kid in kindergarten that would yell “TEEECHUR!! Billy is chewing on his pencil eraser
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    AGAIN!" kind of energy. Nothing I did was right. She called my office multiple times per day to "check in." If I answered the phone, I was asked why I wasn't out doing my job. If she left a message because I was out, I was asked why I didn't answer the phone. During one of our annual team meetings, she
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    meant to text another manager something nitpicky about me and the message went to me instead (she literally just said "oops!" when I asked what I just received). That kind of wears on a person. Three years to the day I was first hired, I was laid off with half the
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    team. It sucked, but I found a new job where my skills were unique and celebrated. My new manager is supportive, hands-off, and reasonable. I've been promoted almost every year (just had my 6 year anniversary), and now I'm part of the management team for our program - no one else in the
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    company does what I do. The bad memories from my last manager experience faded away. I was happy. So I'm working away one afternoon right before Christmas and get a message alert from LinkedIn.
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    It's her. It's The Worst Manager. Worst Manager: "Hey! I just had an interview with [one of my programs] and they mentioned knowing someone else that worked for [last company]. mid interview i couldn't quite think, but as i was
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    [OP]!! sitting here eating lunch i was like, i hope you are doing well and just wanted to let you know it made me smile- she mentioned you had provided some stories about [last company] and I couldn't help but laugh because there were so many... anyway, have a great holiday and hopefully we will be
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    "working together" again soon!" Oh, no, no, no. no. I reply to her "Ha! Seems like a lifetime ago. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!!"
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    I immediately IMed the interviewing team and asked if they had just interviewed this person. They had. They loved her. They were in the process of drafting an offer.
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    All I typed was "if you hire her, I quit." The lead interviewer started a conference call. At some point, we had all shared horror stories of bad managers. I asked them if they remembered mine and they did. I explained that my story was about the person they just interviewed.
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    Lead Interviewer: "The last thing we need for this team is someone like that. I'll tell HR to stop her offer, and I'll wait until after the holidays to let WM know our decision. It was a really tough decision after all. A very strong candidate pool." Literally let WM
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    twist in the wind for 2 weeks for me. Did I mention I love my management team here? Not all managers go to bat for their people, and even fewer join in on petty revenge. I can never quit now
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    We did fill the position, btw. With another person from my previous company that I advocated strongly for. I hope WM knows.
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    verminbury 16 hr. ago · "Fingers crossed, by which I mean I will use my fingers to make the sign of the cross until you flap away from my window, hissing into the night." 628 Reply Share
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    svu_fan 16 hr. ago Sometimes the best revenge really is simply a life well lived with a successful job! Excellent revenge. Reply Share 62
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    flexisexymaxi 10 hr. ago I once saw an HR manager who helped get me fired by building up a file (constructive dismissal) interviewing at the next company I worked at (which was a great place to work for).
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    After she left I went to the interviewing manager, and told them that I had worked with that person and to be very careful because she would rot the culture we had from within. She wasn't hired. It felt good. Reply Share 44
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    Technical_Ad_4894 · 13 hr. ago Wow if that horrible manager had just kept quiet she would've been hired But she couldn't resist clawing at you one more time. ↑ 39 ↓ Reply Share
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    Efficient-Stretch-47 OP 13 hr. ago If she had even messaged me something less catty (it sounds like you're doing really well in your new role, your colleagues said a ton of wonderful things about you and I was so happy to hear that!) I might've kept quiet!
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    Niadh74 15 hr. ago Nicely done. I have been in a similar position after moving companies. The new company was looking for new staff following various departures and i made it clear that i would not be working in the same team as persons A
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    and B should their names ever come up. I knew that yhere had been a number of redundancies after the 2008 crash but wasn't sure if they were amongst them. I wasn't prepared to take the chance.
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    Fortunately it's never to my knowledge come to head. 18 Reply Share

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