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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Financial Services |
I was involuntary discharged from my last job, should I hide it to my new employer? |
I been working for Bank of America for 3 years and I was discharged from the bank early this year. My father had heart attack in China on Nov.2006, and he needed a lot of money otherwise the doctors would not perfrom the surgery for him in China. I was shocked when I first heard the news, and I used all my savings and had borrowed money from relatives and friends and even overdrawn my credit cards in order to get the money for my father. Because of this incident, I stopped go to work without notify my manager because I lost my mind and didn't know what to do. After serveral days probably more than a week, I finally called my manager and told him the tragedy, and he told me to filed a leave of absense if I had to returned to China. I did filed the leave of absense and then I flew to China and stayed there for 3 months. My father eventully died on Feb. 2007. When I came back I found out that I had been discharged because my leave of absence was denied since I didn't provdie evidence You should definitely not hide this from your future employer, as they are likely to find out when checking your references. My advice is two-fold. First, be honest with your next employer and explain the situation and your state of mind when it occurred. Second, contact B of A's Human Resources Department, explain the situation, tell them that you understand that you will not get your job back, but ask if you can provide the required proof now since you left the country before being notified of the requirement of proof. Explain that you would like to clear this up so that it will not affect your reference for a future job. They should appreciate the fact that you are trying to make the situation right and may be willing to work with you. if not, see if they would be willing to place a letter of explanation from you in your Personnel file. Good luck! Yes you should. As an employer I would prefer someone be up front with me and tell me. Here's a reality check...I'd call BofA to seek a background check. They will tell me nothing, but by telling me nothing...they are telling me everything. Hence, if you don't fess up...I'll assume that there was an issue and might pass on hiring you. On the other hand, if you tell me the truth I would appreciate your honesty and consider that a hiring plus. don't intentionally hide just don't mention it but if they ask just explain that a close family member was dying and you were not told that your leave of absence needed to be preapproved when you left the country and that you will be more careful in the future I wouldn't advise that because if you next boss finds out you could loose yet another job. When filling out other applications you don't have to write down why you can state will state if ask. It is based on your personal tragedy with in your life... I think honesty is the best policy. There is no shame in helping a family member. I would suggest that you learn from your mistake of not filing paper work in a timely manner and making sure all of the material that you need to insure the proper approval . |
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