I should say, they can get in more trouble for not telling the next 
employer who hires you if you end up repeating the law-breaking behavior 
or doing harm to people while you are working at the job.

Robyn wrote:
> If the old company knows that you've broken the law or were a danger to 
> people in some way (e.g., threats, extremely inappropriate and worrisome 
> behavior), they can get in more trouble for not telling the next 
> employer who calls.  That's where serious liability kicks in.
> 
> 
> Adam Churvis wrote:
>> They're concerned with the possible liability over tacit endorsements of you 
>> or your work.  If they hire you and then claim that they were damaged 
>> because of hiring you, and they further claim that the deciding factor was 
>> the collection of endorsements from employees of your company, they'll most 
>> likely come after your company in court.
>>
>> I'm surprised they let employees claim negatives, like threats or theft, 
>> instead of referring them to HR.
>>
>> I guess you could have them ask HR specific questions that don't endorse yet 
>> confirm what you did, like if your SNMP work was deficient.  As long as it 
>> wasn't documented deficient in your employment record then HR should have no 
>> problem confirming.
>>
>> What a world, eh?
>> Respectfully,
>>
>> Adam Phillip Churvis
>> Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
>> BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee
>>
>>
>>
>> Get advanced intensive Master-level training in
>> C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at
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>>
>>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>>   From: Paul Ihrig 
>>   To: CF-Community 
>>   Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 7:22 AM
>>   Subject: no referance for me...
>>
>>
>>   so i am leaving Liebert.
>>   exit interview on Monday.
>>
>>   i asked a couple of co-workers for reference on work i did with snmp data.
>>   was told that HR would reprimand them if they did.
>>
>>   only thing they could say is if i worked there, stolen any thing, or
>>   threatened any one.
>>   guess this is due to possible litigation they have seen in the past...
>>
>>   i am like wth!
>>   i did good work in a heavy tech industry for the Co. for two years, and i
>>   cant even get references to Confirm that i did what i say i did???
>>
>>   how have you guys delt with similar situations?
>>   thanks
>>   -paul
>>
>>
>>   
>>
>>
> 
> 

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