离职证明:前老板使绊子怎么办?_BEC初级作文

离职证明:前老板使绊子怎么办?

Dear Norm: This problem is a lot more common than you might think. Even without a separation agreement that specifically prohibits a former employer from badmouthing an ex-employee, most big companies have blanket policies in place that permit references to confirm nothing more than dates of employment and job title.

亲爱的诺姆：这个问题相当常见，并不像你想得那么特殊。就算没有离职条款来专门限制前雇主不得说离职雇员的坏话，多数大公司也都有统一的政策，除了员工的在职时间和工作头衔之外，不得透露其它任何信息。

Unfortunately, like so many corporate policies, these are honored mainly in the breach.

不幸的是，如同其他众多公司政策，上述规定也得不到切实执行。

"About 99% of the time, people we call for a reference don't even ask who we are before they start talking," says Heidi Allison, managing director of Allison & Taylor, a firm that specializes in finding out what people's references are actually saying about them.

Allison & Taylor公司专门分析推荐信的真实含义，公司执行董事海蒂??艾莉森指出：“约99%的情况下，我们打电话要求提供推荐材料时，对方都不问我们是谁，就开始大讲特讲。”

People's tendency to reveal more than they're supposed to isn't new, but Allison notes that it's gotten worse since the recession started. "HR departments now have a lot of young, inexperienced staffers answering the phones. Sometimes when we've been referred to them by managers we've called, they've read us someone's entire personnel file verbatim -- the good, the bad, and the indifferent," she says.