4 ms·
Many countries have laws mandating that a company has to provide a positive or neutral letter of reference for all leaving employees. Apparently not the case in
by distances 9y ago
Many countries have laws mandating that a company has to provide a positive or neutral letter of reference for all leaving employees. Apparently not the case in Japan though.
- jsmeaton 9y agoReally? Then what's the point? If a reference isn't honest then why trust them at all.
- x0 9y agoWhat if you didn't do anything bad, but your boss just disliked you? A bad reference would make sure you never get another job in that industry
- pipio21 9y agoWhich is really stupid by the way... This happens in Germany but it just means that if someone has a simple neutral letter of reference, the person herself is a terrible worker. You are making the scale from 0 to 10 into another scale of 5 to ten. Employers are not stupid and in fact they have developed their own codes to express whatever they want to express to other employers they have good relationships with. The same happens in China where it is offensive to say: NO! So , instead of telling it, they wait and tell you Yes(!!) There is an indirect code to translate the time and emphasis employed by the a yes into a no everybody agrees with.