I have a job interview in a few days and the staffing firm asked I fill out this questionnaire they e-mailed to me and bring it to the interview. Well one of the questions on the questionnaire is to give contact information for my direct supervisor from last 2 jobs. My problem is that I know my previous employer will not give me a good reference. So what should I do, provide the information and hope they don't contact my prior employer or should I give them the info and explain to them why they shouldn't contact them. I have no idea what to do here.
And I'm sure someone here will ask why I'm getting a bad reference from my old job so here's why. You can skip to the last paragraph for a short explanation
I work as a contactor (helpdesk) at a company and my boss told my temp agency he wanted to hire me and told me he was interested in bring me on but he had to wait a 3 months for company to increase his budget so he could hire another person. So to make sure I got hired I busted by butt during those 3 months, I took the most call, resolved the most issue of anyone in my call center group. I'd usually work 9-10 hour days (I was an hourly employee so I only got paid for 8 hours) I even worked 7 days in a row without overtime. I was hungry for a permanent job so I worked my butt off. Anyways 3 months passed my temp agency called and told me that my boss called to hire me on. Since I was a contractor I had to be hired through my temp agency. So a few weeks go by and I don't hear anything from my boss and temp firm and my boss hadn't talked to me about hiring me on. I call my temp firm and they say they're working out details. My company then hires a new contractor through a different temp firm and has me train him, I assume this guy will be my replacement. So after training this guy for 2 weeks I notice someone walks up to his cube and takes off his contractor name tag form his cube (just a piece of paper) and puts up a plastic name badge for a Permanent employee. I go to my boss like what the FU@K's going on and he say's they can't hire me because my temp firm wants 12k as a finder?s fee. I call my temp firm and they say my boss knew all along what the finder?s fee was from the moment they hired me. So I felt like my boss was egging me on to get me to do a lot of unpaid work and I got super pissed. I then told my boss I quit effective immediately and I told my temp firm I quit, they said I had to give 2 weeks notice and I told them to go to hell.
I left without giving 2 weeks notice and this especially screwed over the company I was working for because I left just as 2 full time employees took their vacations. They only had 7 people in their helpdesk so my leaving left 4 people one of whom wasn't fully trained and it was during a week they had a new product roll out so they were expecting high call volumes.
I know I acted unprofessionally but how can I deal with the bad reference
Update
So I went to my interview and it all went well, they seemed to really like me and they told my staffing firm recuriter that they were interested but want to check my references. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what my old boss says about me
And I'm sure someone here will ask why I'm getting a bad reference from my old job so here's why. You can skip to the last paragraph for a short explanation
I work as a contactor (helpdesk) at a company and my boss told my temp agency he wanted to hire me and told me he was interested in bring me on but he had to wait a 3 months for company to increase his budget so he could hire another person. So to make sure I got hired I busted by butt during those 3 months, I took the most call, resolved the most issue of anyone in my call center group. I'd usually work 9-10 hour days (I was an hourly employee so I only got paid for 8 hours) I even worked 7 days in a row without overtime. I was hungry for a permanent job so I worked my butt off. Anyways 3 months passed my temp agency called and told me that my boss called to hire me on. Since I was a contractor I had to be hired through my temp agency. So a few weeks go by and I don't hear anything from my boss and temp firm and my boss hadn't talked to me about hiring me on. I call my temp firm and they say they're working out details. My company then hires a new contractor through a different temp firm and has me train him, I assume this guy will be my replacement. So after training this guy for 2 weeks I notice someone walks up to his cube and takes off his contractor name tag form his cube (just a piece of paper) and puts up a plastic name badge for a Permanent employee. I go to my boss like what the FU@K's going on and he say's they can't hire me because my temp firm wants 12k as a finder?s fee. I call my temp firm and they say my boss knew all along what the finder?s fee was from the moment they hired me. So I felt like my boss was egging me on to get me to do a lot of unpaid work and I got super pissed. I then told my boss I quit effective immediately and I told my temp firm I quit, they said I had to give 2 weeks notice and I told them to go to hell.
I left without giving 2 weeks notice and this especially screwed over the company I was working for because I left just as 2 full time employees took their vacations. They only had 7 people in their helpdesk so my leaving left 4 people one of whom wasn't fully trained and it was during a week they had a new product roll out so they were expecting high call volumes.
I know I acted unprofessionally but how can I deal with the bad reference
Update
So I went to my interview and it all went well, they seemed to really like me and they told my staffing firm recuriter that they were interested but want to check my references. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what my old boss says about me
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