[BC] Re: Blacklisting in Broadcast Engineering

[Mike McCarthy]

 From a HR perspective, that is correct.  I'm talking about supervisory 
people speaking of subordinates who have left the company under lass than 
ideal conditions.  If they give me that same line and refuse to talk any 
more of the former employee, it's telling.....

MM

At 05:23 PM 8/10/2006 -0500, Richard Fry wrote
>>Past employers who simply state the person was employed
>>from date one to date two and say no more, even if pressed,
>>are sending a clear message to me.  Nothing more
>>needs to be said.
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>
> From my experience in the corporate world, the policy quoted above 
> relating to date one and date two is SOP going back quite a few years (15 
> or more?).
>
>I believe that current HR policy still dictates that the job performance 
>rating or assessment of either a "good" or "bad" employee is never 
>released by a former employer to a third party, without a legal 
>requirement to do so.
>
>So such a response really is meaningless, and should not be interpreted as 
>a negative assessment of that former/prospective employee.
>
>RF
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