I left company 5 years back due to bad term with managers and former colleagues. Now, the former colleague applied to the company I work for and I absolute hate to see him again. While I will tell this yo the team get and can stop him coming here, do any of you have a better way to deal this situation.
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Say something only if you think they will listen. Otherwise, it may backfire and you’ll be the one looking for new employment.
'm the OP again and stopped the ex colleague, decided not to encourage people who got bad terms previously. It goes both ways.
For whatever reason, warning others always backfired on me. What was that saying involving beaver homes and faint praise again?
I would most certainly tell the team hiring him to think twice. Sorry.....there are plenty of people (mainly Dirs/VPs) at Cisco that don't belong at ANY company. I would carefully say anything I could to block certain people from working for my current company. Yup.....payback.
Keep your mouth shut and mind your own business. Saying something won't do you any favors, it may do the opposite.
I am sorry to say that if someone doesn't get along with anyone in their team... the problem may lie -uhm- "elsewhere". :-P
Getting along with people is a skill be need to keep perfecting. I have had issues with individual people here and there, but never with an entire team plus my manager. I do not doubt there exist toxic teams like that, but my solution to that would be to never look back. And if one of them crosses your career path again because others that interviewed them see value - just approach the situation as a new one and give them a chance. If they have not evolved, they will inevitably fail anyhow.
Why do the people complaining about how terrible their former colleagues always have such bad grammar
Like that whole pot-valiant thing. Has someone set ChatGPT on this board or something
In case this is a genuine question, I suggest you mind your own business. What you're describing is very close to defamation. You also don't know if this person has been LR'ed and is desperate. You really want to be responsible for someone being made destitute.
Move back to Cisco. If your ex-colleague follows you to Cisco, then just move out again. Avoid him like the plague. Your colleague might be a sociopath or suffers from a bipolar disorder.
I know someone in a similar situation. They told their team the guy was toxic and a poor performer. He didn't get hired and the team thanked him for the warning.
The guy wasn't toxic or a poor performer... he just didn't like the person.
Bad terms with managers and former colleagues. Could it be you're the problem? Who are you to try to dictate who gets hired in a company you're just a mere pawn in? The nerve.
Nope. Tell your manager. Otherwise you run the risk of this person getting hired and poisoning your current work mates against you.
Don’t encourage him. Tell your team that he is an a$$hole. This is a lesson to other Cisco fellows as well.