My former employer had a signature tactic for retaining unhappy, underpaid staff in an über-toxic workplace:
He’d promise a glowing reference to anyone leaving. But once they escaped, he’d immediately call their new employer—uninvited—and deliver a fabricated litany of grievances: exaggerated failures, imagined disruptions, and personal slanders.
It was a ritual of reputational sabotage, designed to punish dissent and keep others too afraid to leave. After you factor in how challenging it can be to find a new job in some industries, the defamatory spiteful angle really made it hard to move on, keeping us trapped there far longer.
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Job hugging FTW! All you have to do to keep your employees is to make sure the economy sucks too much for them to leave! 🥺
My former employer had a signature tactic for retaining unhappy, underpaid staff in an über-toxic workplace:
He’d promise a glowing reference to anyone leaving. But once they escaped, he’d immediately call their new employer—uninvited—and deliver a fabricated litany of grievances: exaggerated failures, imagined disruptions, and personal slanders.
It was a ritual of reputational sabotage, designed to punish dissent and keep others too afraid to leave. After you factor in how challenging it can be to find a new job in some industries, the defamatory spiteful angle really made it hard to move on, keeping us trapped there far longer.
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