I live in NV, and work in a highly competitive sales industry here.
In January, I took an extended medical leave from my previous employer due to health issues. During that time, I didn’t really respond or communicate with any of my coworkers. At the beginning of this month, I decided I didn’t want to go back to work for that company any more, so I searched for new employment and sent my letter of resignation.
One of my previous coworkers found out I was applying elsewhere, and sent one of the places I was applying to an email saying they shouldn’t hire me because I used to date one of my coworkers and that I would do that again (this was a rumor, it wasn’t true). That company told me about it and I was super surprised because him and I had never had a bad work relationship before that. Instead of pursuing it, I decided to just apply elsewhere and pretend I didn’t know what he did.
Fast forward to today. I got a message saying I passed my background check and that I’d be starting at my new job in about a week and a half. I get a message out of the blue from John Doe asking me where I’ve been working, how I’ve been supporting myself, if I was living off of tax returns, and so on. Already somewhat angry about what he had done previously, but not wanting to get in to an argument about it I basically said I was on a medical leave and that how I afforded to live during that time wasn’t any of his business.
This culminated in him saying he would be blocking me from working anywhere else in the business, and that I should consider going back to college and choosing a new career path. He then sent me a message saying “I know the regional director from X COMPANY, you should just move on”, X company being the one I just got hired at. No one aside from me and one close friend know I was going to work there, so that leads me to believe he really does know this person and that my offer may be rescinded in the next few days.
I really have no idea why he is doing this. And when I asked him why, he said “move on”. My main question would be: is what he’s doing illegal? If I lawyer up, do I really have anything to fight? I’m really freaked out and upset, and don’t really know what to do. For further clarification, I was never fired from a previous employer. I have a spotless record, and there’s absolutely no reason anyone should not hire me. I don’t know what he’s going to be telling people, but any of it would be unfounded and untrue. In late last year, he had mentioned to me at work about doing something similar to someone else he had known, but i didn’t really pay much attention to the story and basically wrote it off as him just making stuff up to seem powerful.
tl;dr - ex coworker is saying he’s blocking me from working any other job in my industry because I refused to answer his questions about my personal life.
Tagged as “other civil” because I wasn’t exactly sure what category this would fall under, since he wasn’t my boss and it’s not my previous employer doing this. The ex coworker said he no longer works where we were working together
Edit: he’s saying that he’s also going to be blocking anyone who is friends with me, and one of my friends got a call saying they are deciding not to move forward with hiring her when they had previously been the ones who offered her the job. I’m now fully convinced he’s actually doing this.
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