Tiamat666 said:
I believe people should be able to rant on the Internet and get all the nerd rage out of their system, without losing their job or not finding another job.
A little more honest talking and open-mindedness will do the world good.
Ehhhh, Kinda.
yes open, and honest conversation about working in a corporate environment is all well, and good, but at the same time there is this principle in business (I forget the title of it, but was going to explain anyways)
that 1 good review/account/story/transaction
might get you the same, or another customer
think about the last time you saw a fastfood restaurant do a "free ______ no purchase necessary" if you enjoyed it you might have thought to yourself "huh I might want to eat this again" and you probably told at least one friend about it (maybe more)
and 1 bad review/account/story/transaction
will lose you that same customer, and 10 potential customers
that same "free ______ no purchase necessary" you eat it, and get sick, and know that it was the only possible thing that could have gotten you sick (within reason), or maybe they actually charged you for it. you will probably go out of your way to tell even people you don't know about it.
though this principle does have a failing when you consider: does a good equal a bad, or does one outweigh the other most of the time from a business setting the bad will dwarf the good almost to an exponential level, and this is why so many companies mission statements include the words "best" "customer service" "satisfaction" (not all necessarily at the same time), or flavors thereof, or will dump a good portion of money into Customer Service, and/or Quality Assurance, and in some cases might even give these sections the ability to not only affect the production that is going on, but stop it, or directly modify it (this is not as common as it should be, but does happen ex: Unity Team), and why some companies (even middle man companies) will try to bend over backwards to correct even something minor (ex: Paypal for any shit they get they will literally eat their own shit out of your hand to make a customer happy for a legitimate complaint)
coming back on point (in a sudo-roundabout fashion) if we take this "one tenth principle" (don't think that is the name) and then attribute it to a single employee/representative "the reason I got sick after eating that free ____ was because they found out one of the cooks didn't wash their hands after going to the bathroom" then that cook will almost 90% of the time be disciplined (it should be 100% but oversights, and "oversights" happen). now if that employee is fired (depending on how sick the person was, or if this was incident #5) that employee will also have a health violation on their record, and how likely do you think they are to get another job if the next employer sees that violation, and the next "acceptable" candidate has none.
now
moral of the story is that when it comes to PR if we know that personX has basically made their previous place of business look like the "9th Circle of Hell" to work for (granted some credit should be given if we know that it is true, but "we don't work there, so we should assume that it is at the very least and ok place to work) what is the likely hood that they might do the same for us even for something minor. now you might be thinking to yourself
"this doesn't hold water that if personX badmouths their previous place of business they will automatically do it for every place they work for" to which yes, and no "there is no history of anything until it happens", and "once there is history of something happening the likelihood that it will happen again increase ten fold for every occurrence"
to put this in terms that most people are very likely to have experienced: did you ever know anybody who would only ever say negative things about other people, but only when they were not there, and then thought to yourself "I wonder if they do this same thing about me when I am not around them" and then gave a good deal of thought (maybe more then your willing to admit) on considering them a friend.
so in short the reason that this person might not receive the "admiration" of potential employers is because after he was removed from his last one he did not have "admiration" for them.
