Has a previous employer ever blacklisted you??

[Anonymous]

I quit a job leaving them in a fucked up situation because they did not know my job or how to do it. My manager got fired after they realized that I was the one doing all the work.


I had someone call and they said that I was not a good worker which is not true. i worked over 70 hours a week with 40 hour pay and I reorganized the entire department.

Now with that being said i do believe that people can "blacklist" you if they do not like the position you left the company in.

[Anonymous]

The closest thing I ever had to being "blacklisted" was when I walked away from a job with no notice. I was teaching in a private, religious school. I witnessed a teacher take off her shoe and hit a child in the head with it because the child kept taking off her shoes on the playground. I also saw this teacher threaten to cut a child's toes off. I brought it to the attention of my director who was very concerned and took it up with the pastor. He fired the director and told me that the problem had "been taken care of". The absusive teacher was counseled and allowed to keep her job because in the pastor's words "she is a church member".

I walked into my classroom, saw that the offending teacher was still there, and walked out. I called child protective services and let them take it from there.

So...my choices? I can list the school on my resume and explain the situation. Or I can leave the school off of my resume. If I try to explain what happened to a potential employer, I look like a trouble-maker. When I started looking for a job, I just left my two years teaching at the private school off of my resume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The closest thing I ever had to being "blacklisted" was when I walked away from a job with no notice. I was teaching in a private, religious school. I witnessed a teacher take off her shoe and hit a child in the head with it because the child kept taking off her shoes on the playground. I also saw this teacher threaten to cut a child's toes off. I brought it to the attention of my director who was very concerned and took it up with the pastor. He fired the director and told me that the problem had "been taken care of". The absusive teacher was counseled and allowed to keep her job because in the pastor's words "she is a church member".

I walked into my classroom, saw that the offending teacher was still there, and walked out. I called child protective services and let them take it from there.

So...my choices? I can list the school on my resume and explain the situation. Or I can leave the school off of my resume. If I try to explain what happened to a potential employer, I look like a trouble-maker. When I started looking for a job, I just left my two years teaching at the private school off of my resume.

I dunno, seems to me that your former employer could legitimately give you a bad reference just for walking off the job. Everything else aside, you left the school without any notice. I'm sure that had an impact on the students and the organization. You didn't do anybody any good by leaving without notice and you could have done some harm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The closest thing I ever had to being "blacklisted" was when I walked away from a job with no notice. I was teaching in a private, religious school. I witnessed a teacher take off her shoe and hit a child in the head with it because the child kept taking off her shoes on the playground. I also saw this teacher threaten to cut a child's toes off. I brought it to the attention of my director who was very concerned and took it up with the pastor. He fired the director and told me that the problem had "been taken care of". The abusive teacher was counseled and allowed to keep her job because in the pastor's words "she is a church member".

I walked into my classroom, saw that the offending teacher was still there, and walked out. I called child protective services and let them take it from there.

So...my choices? I can list the school on my resume and explain the situation. Or I can leave the school off of my resume. If I try to explain what happened to a potential employer, I look like a trouble-maker. When I started looking for a job, I just left my two years teaching at the private school off of my resume.

I dunno, seems to me that your former employer could legitimately give you a bad reference just for walking off the job. Everything else aside, you left the school without any notice. I'm sure that had an impact on the students and the organization. You didn't do anybody any good by leaving without notice and you could have done some harm.

I totally agree. I did leave them in a bad position. That's kind of what I meant. I can't really use the school as a reference and expect a decent response. I couldn't stay knowing that the school allowed an abusive teacher to remain in the classroom. Had this been just a rumor, I would have likely let it go. But I saw this woman take a child into the bathroom where there were no cameras and hit a two year child in the head several times with a shoe. My director was fired when she challenged the pastor. And the pastor told me he would not fire the teacher because she was a church member.

Right or wrong, my personal values would not allow me to stay. And this was not a tiny little church preschool. This was a huge preschool, kindergarten, daycare in a well-known Baptist Church.