Many of us are aware of forced low performance ratings which are recorded in your employee file.
When you voluntarily leave WF and a prospective employer calls for a reference, will HR share that rating? Is a
prospective employer routed to the employee’s last manager? What can be legally shared? If an ex-employee finds negative information is being shared, anyone have advice?
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They won't. Even if you're not with the company anymore. I'm sorry the bank won't allow me too. I wish you luck in your endeavors. Not even a character reference on LinkedIn. Useless feature then.
More like inactive, but ok. Either way, it's a long ways from being some kind of anti worker crusade.
If you follow the rules and give your prospective employer the WF line to validate employment, only hire dates and whether you are eligible for rehire will be shared.
If you choose to give them your last supervisors name and contact info, all bets are off. Managers should not answer questions or share specific feedback, but you know how that goes.
@ca that sounds like an Wells Fargo problem if they're actively covering up dirt on their employees to avoid taking the reputational hit. Pretty on-brand, to be honest
My reference didn’t pass when the hiring manager called Wellsfargo for reference. They do share negative feedback as is.
@bt are you sure they even verify "eligibility for rehire" ?
Investigations. And no, I no longer manage. Do you often make baseless assumptions?
No, it involves people taking WF or customer cash. It's common for employees to be terminated but no legal action to be taken for public relations and reputation reasons. So now that person is floating around and applying for jobs at your business, and you have no idea they steal for fun and pleasure and neither WF nor a background check will tell you. If that's not enough info I can try to draw up a diagram with a crayon if it'll help.
@bw These thieves you speak of....are they in the room with us now? What do "thieves" have to do with the OP? Lemme guess. You're a "manager." amirite? Don't you have some "inconsistently meets" reviews to fabricate?
@bw it is if your definition of thief includes people you think should be punished for being efficient getting their tasks done for the day
WFC wouldn't share the information with either perspective or prospective employers. 😂
There's nothing "anti-worker" about accurately flagging thieves.
I wouldn't put the general bank down as a reference, though a potential employer may still reach out to them to verify employment. I'd be developing private references, former managers or coworkers who you know will speak positively for you. God knows there's enough laid-off former Wells employees floating around out there, you should be able to find someone.
If a future employers contacts Wells directly, all they'll do is verify dates of employment and eligibility for rehire
@bq Why is it that the anti-worker among us have such a loose grasp of spelling and grammar?
Prospective is used in the context of looking ahead to what might happen in the future. Perspective is used in the context of viewpoints or the position from which something is viewed.
Exactly. Even a fake TV lawyer knows there's too much risk in our litigious society to tell other perspective employers anything beyond those basics. Lawsuit waiting to happen, so absolute garbage employees, people that steal, harass, etc. are free to go from company to company with no ramifications or awareness on the part of their next victim.
wells is known to be a really bad, toxic and unethical place to work, so it's unlikely to matter (unless you steal money or doing really bad stuff)
They will only provide start date and end date; and that is provided by The Work Number.