Surprised Employees An Unpleasant Former Boss Who Faces a New Job Interview Struggles to Fail
Behind this all-new instant karma craze, we forgot one great thing. After all, the world around us moves incredibly fast, and even YouTube videos longer than 10 minutes can feel incredibly long. What can we say about waiting over a year for a reason to take revenge?
But these stories are good for it – when everyone seems to have forgotten all that’s wrong, the perfect reason for petty revenge suddenly appears – and the old enough karmic principles works. Everything is exactly as described in this recent story. Reddit user u/Pixie__Pink Petty Revenge.
The author of this post once had the bad luck of working under the supervision of a really obnoxious manager
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The boss was really mean and bullied his subordinates, some of them literally shed tears
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After working for a while at another company, the author was very surprised to learn that his former boss had applied for a position at that company.
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The author went to their manager and told them everything they knew about the new job seeker.
In fact, the whole story seems very simple. Unfortunately, this happens to many people. The original poster (OP) once had the bad luck of working under the supervision of a disrespectful and unbalanced person who literally brought an entire department to tears. According to the post’s author, the boss vents his anger because of some of the missteps he’s made in his personal life towards his employees.Of course, after a while he realizes that the OP quit and got a good job at another company. I found
To my surprise, I later stumbled across that the same obnoxious boss turned out to be applying for a position at OP’s new company! Now it’s time to act! At the same time, it cannot be said that the poster was guided solely by the desire to take revenge. After all, it is the sacred duty of any truly loyal employee to prevent toxic individuals from reaching the work team!
So you probably already guessed what the original poster did. They just went to management and told them about their negative experience with this job seeker, apparently the recruiter was heeding the information they received from her OP. During the interview process, some questions It was specifically aimed at uncovering potential red flags.
Apparently, these red flags were successfully raised because the OP’s former boss wasn’t hired. The authors also admit that the failure was a severe blow to them, as according to their information, applicants had previously boasted that the interview was literally in their bag. It’s a shame they didn’t find out who was to blame for not getting the job they wanted. However, in that case, the story of revenge turns out to be utterly complete, and absolute perfection does not exist in this world.
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There is no doubt that an experienced HR specialist can easily identify problematic candidates on his own, without external guidance. According to Rebecca Zucker, Contributor to Harvard Business Review, here are 10 red flags to look out for in a job interview. In it you may find a lack of clarity or consistency in answers, baits and switches, in addition to the very “classic” constant schedule changes, confusion, or disrespect for others. or resistance to change – even if the applicant wants change. It’s entirely possible that the OP’s former boss fell for any of the above.
In any case, the company you currently work for doesn’t seem to have any reason to be upset that this person didn’t get the position. It could definitely be a bad hire. in the end, According to CareerBulder research A survey conducted a few years ago found that two out of three workers said they accepted a job, only to find that the job wasn’t a good fit and quit within six months. Furthermore, the average cost of hiring a bad person is about $15,000, while the average cost of losing a good person is about $30,000. All in all, the author of the post probably just saved the company a lot of money…
By the way, the commenter on the post not only largely supported the author, but also admitted that he acted this way in a similar situation. For example, when an opportunity arises to take revenge on a former boss for unfair dismissal. Moreover, some people in the comments don’t even think of this revenge. “I don’t think this was trivial. I call it an honest reference. So what do you think of this?
People in the comments told some similar stories, some of which wouldn’t even call it revenge
