dear researchers
In 2000, I quit a job at company A because there was a co-worker who basically
made my life hell and I was supposed to work as a team with him. About
eight months into my new job, I began to look for a new job because I
was depressed about working at a place with this crazy man (he had a
history of doing a lot of weird, inappropriate and illegal things
which included forcing minority students to come to his house to file
his papers, bragging about living in a section 8 apartment even though
he was making 40k/yr...). I found a new job almost exactly one year
after beginning work at company A. I gave notice, citing having to
work with the disruptive man as the sole reason for leaving.
I was still on excellent terms with my old boss. I had worked at the
new job about a month and a half when she sent me an email asking
after me. I told her that work at Company B was okay, but boring, that
I was thinking of looking for another more interesting job. She then
told me that after I left, things got much worse because I was not
there to pick up the slack and now they had to work with only the man.
They went through a lot of trouble documenting things and they were
now in the final stages of terminating him and that they would
love to have me back as soon as he was gone.
Right after the man was finally fired, I applied and interviewed for
the job at Company A again and landed the same job with the same group
with the same boss and worked there for the next three years until I
moved out of the state.
I ended up having worked at Company B for only two months.
I am now applying for a job that will do a background history. I
originally left this out of my work history, but am afraid of what it
will look like if I leave this portion out. I wish to be as honest as
possible without sounding like I am irrational or flighty or unable to
cope with stress. I feel that the fact that Company A fired this man
not two months after I left can work both for and against me. If they
fired him right after I left, why didn't I stick things out? Will
people think that I leave at the littlest sign of trouble? I was not
just depressed, I was extremely depressed. I dreaded waking up and
going to work. I couldnt enjoy my weekends because I was so upset
with having to work with this man. And I feel that if I had stayed he
would have stayed on too, because I was picking up for the work that
he did not do and that my presence kind of buffered his disruptive a
presence.
Given that, though, I do not worry too much about seeming to be
flighty since my other work history before and after that is stable,
usually working 4 or so years at each job.
This is a lot of background for a simple question, and this is the
most thought I've given this episode in my life since it happened in
2000.... I guess background checks seem pretty scary to me although
other than this I don't feel I have anything else to worry about.
****___I would like help on how to word this portion for a job I am currently
applying to (and for future jobs as well).___*****
here is what I will send (as an email) to the people with whom I am
currently seeking a new job:
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I would like to append the following to my work history:
Company B
XX Specialist
9/2000 - 11/2000
Did the duties that I was supposed to do (not real duty description).
Note: I got a job at Company B because I had to work with an extremely
disruptive person at Company A. Within two months of working at
Company B, Company A terminated the disruptive person and I applied
for and got the same job I had before with the same department, group
and boss.
**********************************************************************
Please help me edit the above so that it looks good in the email I
will send shortly. The story that I wrote is true and if a background
check IS done on that part, it will check out fine... But then again,
I don't want to highlight it since it was only two months. And now
since I will be sending a separate email about it I regret not putting
it in the original job application since in a way it is being
highlighted, but now I feel as though I am making a mountain out of a
molehill and I will just end this here.
I hope the $10 compensation is good enough for the time people have
spent reading the background about my question. I will post an
additional tip of $10 if the answer is to my satisfaction.
Thank you. |
Clarification of Question by
banchan-ga
on
06 Jan 2005 13:30 PST
second clarification: I did approach my boss at company A regarding
this disruptive co-worker. Very early on, in fact, within 2 months of
beginning my job there. But nothing was done for the next 10 months
and I just got more and more depressed. I asked a couple more times
about possible solutions and I was told that they were working on the
issue and also that it was part of my job description to work with my
partner (the disruptive man), which is true.
However, I don't think that it was a coincidence that they only let
him go after they had to deal with him alone (I feel nothing would
have been done if I just stayed on. Firing someone is tough and if
things are okay, as they were when I was there to be a buffer, nothing
will really be done). That is just speculation, but that is what I
feel.
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