Here's one that happened a while ago, but it annoyed me just now thinking about it...
Someone I worked with asked if I'd serve as a reference in their job search, but almost immediately withdrew the request and said they'd use someone they knew longer than me, which means they chose a personal reference instead of a professional one. I was the best professional reference they had in their one-job career, that they were still on good terms with. I would have explained to them that a professional reference was going to be a lot more useful, but I didn't bother, because if they have no faith in my ability to serve in that capacity then what's the point?
How much disdain do you have to have for someone to pass them up as your best professional reference?
They've since, but not in time for that position, which they didn't get, come to good terms, or so they think, with someone else they could possibly use as a reference. I'd explain to them why that person hates me, because it applies to them, too, but what would be the point? I'd suggest they pay closer attention to said person's facebook feed, to their lack of interaction on that platform, and that I've unfriended them, but what would be the point?
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