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Anyone ever been threatened with been blacklisted?

  • 09-11-2012 8:13pm
    #1
    boredatwork82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭


    Leaving my job after a couple of months - its horrendous and awful! Worked in a good few jobs, So I had a good few other roles to compare it too!
    It was so bad from the start I scratched out my notice period (ridiculously long!) before I signed the contract.

    Now they are threatening to blacklist me with all the recruitment agents, previous and future employers for not complying with the notice period. Bit much I think!

    Anyone any experience of this ever happening?


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  • #2
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    boredatwork82 wrote: »
    Leaving my job after a couple of months - its horrendous and awful! Worked in a good few jobs, So I had a good few other roles to compare it too!
    It was so bad from the start I scratched out my notice period (ridiculously long!) before I signed the contract.

    Now they are threatening to blacklist me with all the recruitment agents, previous and future employers for not complying with the notice period. Bit much I think!

    Anyone any experience of this ever happening?

    Get a meeting, record it, leave, sue, retire.


  • #3
    boredatwork82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭boredatwork82


    Haha Good advice, I will go to my solicitor on Monday!


  • #4
    sligoface
    Closed Accounts Posts: 556 ✭✭✭sligoface


    OP I doubt you need any legal advice on this tbh. It's most likely a totally empty threat. There is no such thing as a blacklist, this isn't 1940's Hollywood. Any questions a future employer or recruitment agency have about you leaving your past job can be answered by you to them. Needless to say you won't be highlighting this position on your CV or giving them as a reference anyway, which should be the only situation which would lead a past employer to communicate with any future employers

    Do you honestly believe they could possibly have 'all the recruitment agents and future employers' in their rolodex and that they are going to start making random unsolicited calls to all of them to badmouth you? Even if they could, the professionals in these organizations are hardly going to take at face value any attempt to 'blacklist you'. For them to such a call out of the blue would seem very bizarre and reflect worse on them than you. Unless the industry you work in consists of a small circle of people, and this employer is very well connected in that circle, they couldn't possibly do this and be taken seriously.

    The whole thing is laughable. And the concept of blacklisting you to previous employers truly boggles the mind. Do they own a time machine which they intend to use to go back in time and prevent you from getting jobs you had before you worked for them?

    It sounds like the person who issued this threat is not very intelligent or professional, and they must think you are quite naive to believe they could blacklist you. They probably just wanted to be vindictive and couldn't think of any other way to stick it to you.


  • #5
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,375 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Procrastastudy wrote: »
    Get a meeting, record it, leave, sue, retire.
    Except minor issues such as it would be illegal and not admissible in court but hey...


  • #6
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    Nody wrote: »
    Except minor issues such as it would be illegal and not admissible in court but hey...

    You'd think that but there is precedent for covert recordings being accepted in EATs. Decision was appealed (and/or judicially reviewed) and upheld.


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  • #7
    Irish_Elect_Eng
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Irish_Elect_Eng


    There is no such thing as a black-list, but you can have your prospects severely dented in many industries. Ireland is a very small place and in many industries you need to be very aware that pissing one employer can result in your name being muddied.


    I often see posts like this on boards, people who want to walk away with out respecting a notice period when leaving an employer, but would expect the employer to respect it if they are terminating the very same contract.

    After all if you do not agree with having a notice period, don't accept the job.


  • #8
    tony81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭tony81


    Op, if u scratched out notice period it's not part of your contract.
    However it's only fair to do minimum notice. Also follow your contract to the letter.. enter the building at 9pm, exit at 5.30, and basically work to rule.

    Btw i do know someone who was blacklisted for what was basically a form of theft. Doubt he worked again in the industry. However, for not working a notice period is a bit much, esp considering it's your employer's fault for providing a horrible work environment.


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