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[-] [email protected] 374 points 9 months ago

This kinda happened to me back in the nineties.

A former manager, no longer with our company, got word that I was interviewing for a new job.

She took it upon herself to call my then current manager to inform him that I was looking for a job.

To this he responded that not only was he aware of the situation, but he had helped refer me and and was facilitating the process because my wife had just gotten pregnant, the new job was double the income, and I was gonna need that, and he was happy for me.

I still fantasize about bringing severe misfortune to that woman.

[-] [email protected] 175 points 9 months ago

Who the hell calls up people’s employers and rats them out over stuff that shouldn’t be anyone’s business?

[-] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago

People that weren’t beat up enough as kids for snitching

[-] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago

I'd argue the opposite. It's all about power. The ex-manager was feeling powerless. By snitching on the employee, they gained a small measure of power over their world. Getting beaten up/bullied as a child will make you feel VERY powerless. Unless that trauma is resolved, that will continue into adulthood. They will then likely lash out in exactly this way.

More likely, they weren't given the love needed to realise the compounding power of positive action and self confidence. The current manager was using exactly that. He was helping a friend out, at cost to himself. He had the confidence he could deal with the minor loss though, and that it would pay off down the line (even if only in a warm fuzzy feeling, of helping someone out).

Basically, less beatings, more hugs.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

The hugs will continue until morale improves.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

And yet despite all this, there's a point where people should just know better.

I think it's fair to acknowledge people's struggles and still expect better of them.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

people don't realize every job is held by a human too that probably doesnt care about mundane stuff either

[-] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago

Wow, what a conniving and scheming little tattle-tale.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The sort of person who volunteers to go on weekend "team building exercises" with a reply-all email.

Recently they'd have been advocating a return to the office, despite most of the bosses being happy to carry on working from bed.

[-] FreshLight 3 points 9 months ago

I still fantasize about bringing severe misfortune to that woman.

I hope you don't mean your wife

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nah. While I've got zero desire to associate with my ex-wife in any way, shape, or form, we are both substantially different people today than the petulant selfish people we both were when we split up. I wish no ill will toward her.

[-] FreshLight 2 points 9 months ago

What was meant as a joke caused a very mature and well-refleced reply.

Thank you for sharing!

[-] [email protected] 246 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"I'm bored. I think I'll try to destroy someone's life today, that seems fun."

[-] [email protected] 99 points 9 months ago

Given the "recruiting agency" I wouldn't put it past someone to go "ooh, maybe if I get them fired, they'll come to me needing a job!"

So it's not boredom, it's just pure malice!

[-] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago

I think it's the other way around, if they get them fired it's an open position they can try and fill with somebody already on their books

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Absolutely this. No recruiter with any kind of sense is going to go "Hey, does your boss know you're on Twitter all day? That's sooooo inappropriate. Imma tell him! Also, when he fires you, I can pair you up with a great opportunity!" If they have a job that needs filling, and they think you're a fit, they won't care that you're already employed. In fact, as they get a percentage of your salary if you sign, they like it that you have some bargaining power.

This is cozying up to the employer, telling them that they have a problem employee, and presenting themselves as a solution to that problem.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That certainly makes more sense!

Although if I were an employer, I don't know if I would accept a person from some recruitment place that stalks my employees. And since the recruitment place didn't KNOW he was his own boss, it's not like they've previously done business.

But hey, shoot your shot, right?

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[-] [email protected] 112 points 9 months ago

It's incredible what lengths people will go to experience a short high of moral superiority.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago

Trying to get a stranger fired over nothing is wild.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago

Given it's a person from a recruitment agency, I wonder if they intended to double dip, get the poor sap fired then try to both fill the new vacancy they created and help the poor sap they got fired land a new gig through them

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Ah, so they’re self serving as well as being a narc? I hate recruitment consultants.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Recruitment agencies, and estate agents, two kinds of people that only exist because they've decided the job needs to exist rather than any explicit need, and then other people have decided to make use of their services, even though they're shit. So now we have to deal with them.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I have my doubts whether they are from an agency at all

[-] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

He had opinions and posted them on line. The audacity. We can't have drones thinking on their own.

/s

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

It's incredible what lengths people will go to experience a short high of moral superiority.

Organized religion does this daily on a grand scale. The Golden Rule has been superceded by anger, fear, hate, and doubt.

I'm obviously generalizing but history shows again and again that religion no longer favors the meek and honest - it's all about how much money the church can grab.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Well, yeah... Jesus was super based. But then Constantine saw the writing on the wall, and rebranded the Roman belief system with a Jesus themed naming scheme before his armies started to understand the full scope of Jesus's teachings, which were a radical third path way of life that made followers useless to Rome and impossible to control

And remember how Rome collapsed, then the church turned into a soft empire for like a thousand years? Remember how they stood above the kings of Europe, dictating who could rule what, in what one might call an empire? Maybe something like the holy Roman empire?

Anyways, I could rant about this for ages, but tldr: Jesus was based, his name was stolen to create a new Roman religion that is in most ways the exact opposite of what he preached

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The church has never favored the meed and honest. Every power structure is prone to corruption by self serving individuals.

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[-] Steamymoomilk 91 points 9 months ago

Tommy should have fucked with him for longer. Been like “message my employer here" -guy texts employer to try to get Tommy in trouble. Boss-“thanks for letting me know, ill make sure to give him a promotion and vacation days. At our company we care about honesty and integrity and twitter is a shithole. Also fuck off I'm my own boss"

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

No you play it even further. Reply yo text “thank you for informing us. This employee has been terminated.”

Then back on Twitter you reply with how you have been fired, will not be able to pay rent, children will starve, etc etc.

Only after that for a while do you do the big reveal.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Just send them this Lemmy thread so they can see strangers shitting on their behavior.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago

I genuinely don't understand how they get that Twitter reply and still try to snitch. Why would they give you their boss's phone number if they weren't 100% sure that their boss would be cool with their posts?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

snitch didnt like what they had to say. probably pointing out flaws in something they were personally or financially interested in

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately "I understand but disagree" applies to everyone

[-] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago

Guy's pretty stupid, he says do you know about your employer Tommy ______. Tommy wouldn't be his employer. Tommy would be his employee.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago

I think it’s just a typo, but it’s still proper wanker behaviour.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Tattle telling as an adult is definitely wanker behavior.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This guy clearly gets off on hurting other people and trying to hurt other people, so I say we don't need to hide this name. Clearly he would actually agrees with doxing behaviour.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I see your point, but lemmy has a no doxxing rule regardless of how much an individual might deserve it.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago

Some people get high on destroying other people's lives. I am not sure we are getting close to humanity 2.0 we are stuck at 1.0 stable.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Maybe 1.1 unstable.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

Lol them mistyping and saying “employer” is the cherry on top

[-] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Now send it to their boss.

[-] starman2112 18 points 9 months ago

Time to contact a recruitment agency about one of their employee's awful conduct

[-] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Some people were just born bootlickers.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

snort

That's hilarious.

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