> Sometimes I wonder if the people saying this stuff really even work there. It's not impossible, but the kind of person who would be promoted that fast wouldn'

> Sometimes I wonder if the people saying this stuff really even work there. It's not impossible, but the kind of person who would be promoted that fast wouldn't be working two crappy jobs to begin with. In my experience, people often stumble into these situations by simply not quitting their old job when they get a new job. The idea is to continue to collect paychecks from the old job until they lay you off with severance. This usually catches up with people later on when someone puts two and two together or hears from a friend of a friend that the person is working at a certain company. Imagine being recruited to a new company and seeing your former company coworker in Slack and he's been there for months. Word gets around. This absolutely destroys reference checks. Another reason to always do reference checks and always confirm someone's end dates with the other company.