Hi Garry,
I think it is a fair thing to warn people verbally not to work there, which
limits it to friends and contacts. I would never put anything in writing or on
social media as I think this would leave you exposed to legal action. Anyway,
while you hated it, another person might not, and companies can change over
time. It's better to leave it for people to find out for themselves.
Dora
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Subject: atw: The etiquette of warning off
Hi All:
I'm wondering about the etiquette, if there is any, of warning off job
applicants from companies. Such a murky area!
Consider so huge a company as CBA. I've never worked for this paragon of
probity. I've known a few people who have, and none of them have regarded the
experience with joy and happiness. But the company is vast, and my informants
worked in many diverse areas. Should I suggest that CBA is a bad company to
work for? No. But I am disinclined to to work for CBA myself, following two
bizarre interview experiences over the past 20 years. No doubt others have
spent many, many happy centuries working for CBA.
Now take a very, very much smaller company, one in which the bosses are the
owners, and the owners the bosses. Should just one deeply unpleasant experience
at such a company suggest that I alert future tech writers that they may have
future unpleasantness, and that their tenures may be short? Again, I say No:
suck it up and see.
What say ye all? Obviously, legal reasons prevent me from naming the company.
All I can say is: Royal Commission into the Finance Industry.
G.
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