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  • 18-06-2008 10:37pm
    #1
    Jet Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I was sitting at my desk today when I noticed I got an email from HR.
    It said 'We received a phone call from a company looking for a reference for you, if you are planning on leaving why have you not informed your manager/HR' ten seconds later my manager calls me into his office and
    asks me was I planning on leaving'

    So he tells me the name of the company and then I realized I had an interview with them a year ago and they put me on a waiting list for a job. I since forgot about this and they have made no contact with me since September. So out of the blue and without any contact with me they decide to ring my current employer. The reason I went for the job was because at the time I hated it. I have a feeling now I could be pushed out.

    Apart from this can/should I complain to HR. I am so pissed with this now. I was just starting to get somewhere and this happens.
    Thanks


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  • #2
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    No point complaining to the HR department of the company you currently work in.
    You can complain to the crowd you did the interview with (be it the company themselves or the third party you got the interview through) but that wouldnt resolve your current situation.
    You need to sit down with your manager and explain what happened and why you wanted to leave at the time. You can do the same with the HR department in your own company and try patch things up.
    You could get the other crowd to ring your HR and make them say it was over a year ago.
    Cant really see any other options for you. Try patch up things with current employer and explain how happy you are now.
    Kippy


  • #3
    dade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭dade


    have a chat with your boss and explain to him what happened. then contact the other company and complain to the head of HR saying they had no right to seek a reference without your prior consent, especially after a year.


  • #4
    Saint_Mel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    When you applied for the other job a year or so ago, did you list your present company as a reference? If not its bad form that they go calling them out of the blue ... especially a year after you applied!!!


  • #5
    Gone West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    Ask the HR dept in the other company to send you an email confirming that it was a year ago that you were applying for jobs.
    Then forward it to your manager, go in and have a chat and explain that you were thinking of moving last year for *feel good reason* (say you thought your family circumstances were changing, you needed to be nearer your sick uncle, etc). But that has passed, and that you're very happy in your current role and intend to stay there for a long time.


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