Livewyr, on 18 September 2013 - 03:07 PM, said:
Not that I read it.. but do you think someone should write a review about you when they're pissed with you? (Old employer giving a "recommendation" for example?)
I gave them a review, it was honest and open.. and no, it was certainly not glowing.
Your attempt/desire to be even handed is admirable.
As for someone writing a review while they are ticked off (or whatever)... it
could be entirely appropriate. Does the objectionable condition/behavior still exist? Is there any reason to expect it will cease or substantially improve? Has the responsible party acknowledged their error(s) and demonstrated any sincerity or integrity about reversing course?
The answers to those, or similar questions may very well warrant a negative review.
To use your 'old employer' scenario, as a possible example...
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In your interview to get hired you told the employer, "My core principles are [fill in the blank], and they guide my work, from the foundation, up!"... and results in your employer being favorably impressed and leads them to hire you for a big project
You collect pay checks from them, and then after some period of time, (perhaps after your probationary period has ended) you start producing work that is clearly not in accordance with your previously stated core principles. Your employer becomes concerned and brings you in for a counseling session, voicing their displeasure over your apparent abandonment of your core principles that got you hired.
You make an unequivocal promise to produce the type of work that your employer appeared to be highly concerned about, and it mollifies them at that time. You continue to draw paychecks. Further on down the road, and slightly over a month before your big project deadline, you again depart from the agreed upon path... from the path you unequivocally promised to follow ... the promise you made that enabled you to collect more paychecks. Not only that, you cop an attitude about it with your employer while doing it. You make it clear that you think you know better. The deadline arrives and the employer does not get the work product they expected you to produce based upon your stated core principles, and your subsequent unequivocal promise.
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I'd expect the employer to give a substantially unsatisfactory job recommendation when your future prospective employers inquire. I'd expect it to be that way a month after you got fired, or 2 years (or more) after you got fired. The lack of integrity demonstrated in that example would render any promises, or stated intentions about future work, suspect.
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And if anybody is wondering, no, I didn't post a user review on metacritic. I don't have an account on there, and currently do not intend to create one just to add another dissatisfied post to the growing collection.