I hate the whole concept of references. I don’t want to ask a favor from someone in my past. I don’t want to keep contact info for former bosses or co-workers.
Our society is like:
Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.
Have personal responsibility.
Your success or your failure is 100% due to your good or poor choices.
Employers: “By the way, you are going to need help from some strangers in your past in order to get a job with our company.”
Companies are constantly trying to figure out how to pay workers less. I would absolutely take less money if the hiring process didn’t have so much hoop-jumping. How has capitalism not figured that one out yet?
There’s some people that can’t come up with positive references, even when cherrypicked. I’d probably fall into that group.
Bro, I’ll talk you up if you ever need it
Reaminds me of this legendary Aussie. https://youtu.be/SoZ41i2dSIw?si=Er-JrpdsBLnMD5hH
To my friends who need a professional reference, I always just ask them to sit in on a charity game stream with me. Then I can confidently list them as having contributed to a nonprofit cause with me.
Gotta love those technicalities :)
Ask your friends. I used to have a home business, and I keep my website active so it looks like I still exist or just recently closed down. If any of my friends need a reference, they know they can put me down and I’ll be happy to say they did whatever they want. A glowing review. “When they were placed in charge of logistics, they reworked our entire system and nearly doubled our efficiency while cutting previously-unnoticed losses.” or whatever fuckin business nerd words are good.
That’s what I told my best friend and brothers. List me as a previous freelance boss, I’ll lie for them, fuck companies.
Nonsense. I’m an ass, brutally honest to a fault; one of my many. In a world of housecats, I’m a barn cat. I start passionate and I end Hulk.
I’ve left companies like
… And I can find people who’ll speak to a decent work ethic.
You should be fine.