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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few years ago, I messed up badly at a job. I was young and dumb, and I made mistakes. The employer turned out to be a really vengeful person. She blasted what I did all over the internet and actually wrote a blog post about it. She also included screenshots of some text messages that we exchanged. My name is distinctive and that website is the first result in any google search about me. I have no proof, but I think it is costing me jobs.

What can I do? I have thought about suing her for defamation, but she has proof of everything she says. She also has a lot more money than me and hates me enough to fight it out in court. She refuses to take the website down. [/quote]

Previous advice to create a site about her is spot on.  You need negotiating leverage and that site is it.

People love a comeback story and they'll love your site.

If you don't write persuasively, hire someone on a task website to ghost write for you.

You want people reading your website to have the same reaction that just about everyone on this thread did: the old boss is off her rocker and has gone too far.

You can choose different narratives: the web site can be in the third person (never mind that most people will assume it's you).  Or it can be you "telling your story". If the former, you can use a service that will register and maintain the web site anonymously, so she'll never know it's you.  This will give you big leverage if she wants it taken down - she may think you have $$ money backing you from one of her other enemies.  Let her own paranoia work to your advantage here.  If the latter, just tell your story -it sounds persuasive and at least people doing the google search will get both sides.  [/quote]

20:44 here again.  Here's a sample of how it might read:

I remember June 13, 2012 like it was yesterday. I was twenty-two, just out of college and ecstatic I had finally landed my first real job.  The job, although not much by Washington DC's high-achiever standards, meant  a lot to me.  It was the culmination of years of holding down multiple minimum wage jobs to work my way through school while completing my major in International Relations at DC State University.

I would start the next Monday as a latte procurement specialist with the firm of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.  The role was my entree into professional life and the career path I had been dreamed of since taking my first "Using Governments to Extract Excess Rents" course sophomore year. 
[If you have any documentation, like an offer letter or congrats email, post an image].

Although I was excited, I was also nervous.  Tens of thousands of dollars in student debt, a tough job market and several skeptical family members had been weighing on me during the job search.  As spring wore on without an offer I made a terrible decision late one night while staring at my computer screen.  In order to burnish my application to Dewey and improve my chances, I impulsively altered my experience.  Gone was the Solar City gig at Home Depot, replaced by an internship with Meryl  Streep's renowned anti-harrassement non-profit that I had never actually had.  It was made up.  It was also so impressive and above reproach, I have no debt it helped me clinch the job.

So as my first week at Dewey wore on, I was less nervous about the [be very specific here] one made up internship on my resume than whether or not the actual lack of experience would begin to show.  Unfortunately, it didn't take long for that to happen.

The story needs to gradually transition to how crazy she is, how poorly she treated you (if true).
Keep the theme the same ("your mistake"), but pepper it with truthful anecdotes about working there.  
Then transition to the crazy website website
finish with some nice generalities about young people learning from mistakes and how social media and internet rob todays youth of that.

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