Badmouthing Former Employers

I don't understand the mentality where if anyone dares shares their opinion about a former place of employment that has anything remotely negative about the place, that it is looked upon as poor form. It's ridiculous and takes away power from employees and those looking for work. We should openly talk about our experiences in places we work.Wouldn't it be an unfortunate thing, for someone to get hired into a place that has toxicity in it, when simply warning others may have pre

You don't want to publicly name (while bashing) the company you're quitting for seemingly trivial matters (read: Not illegal, abusive, or underhanded). Why burn a bridge?Also, reading a post like this would certainly make me think twice about hiring a candidate.

Disparaging your former employer might also be against your employment agreement and doesn’t make you look good either. Just giving a friendly heads up!

It's one thing to openly express discontent with a prior employer. It's another thing to do it in an interview.

I think there's a degree to which this is true, I wouldn't walk into an interview and immediately start slagging off my old employer, but if you're interviewing me and get all worked up when I say bad things about them in answer to the question "why are you leaving your current job" that's on you and I won't regret not getting the job.

yes, it's expected that you'll never do or say anything bad about past jobs(/companies/environments/people). But other side of this status quo is enabling all the assholes to be assholes and just helping them to continue behaving/acting like they do.that's a bit offtopic though.

Just good, solid, relationship advice that applies to both personal and professional relationships is to not get involved with people who badmouth their current or former employer/partner. You are just setting yourself up to be the next person they are publicly badmouthing.If I want to vent about an employer, I don't name them on a globally available platform. It's unprofessional. If they did that to you, you could sue them.This is a reason why, "Why are you leaving yo

Funny as it is, you are right. In a past life, with a past company (now out of business), and a past boss (I intentionally write "boss", as this guy had nothing to do with a leader) I made all of the wrong choices on the points you marked. Although, I had/still have a great reputation in my industry, it happened exactly as you said... after I moved to my next step in my career, rumors start to appear that my old boss said bad things about me. Luckily, his own reputation went all t

It's not just you. Virtually every article I've read on interview tips gives this same advice. Speaking negatively about your former employer always reflects negatively on you.

I once resigned from a job because of bad management and a toxic environment (high employee turnover, employees were strong-armed into agreeing to unrealistic deadlines then held accountable, every failure always meant someone would have to take the blame and be scolded for it, etc). Because of false loyalty and a nurtured feeling of guilt, I waited too long and only resigned when it had already begun affecting my health (physically and mentally).I made the mistake of trying to be honest. I