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so back in march 2004, while i was desperately looking for a job, i signed up with a consulting company(ABC). I signed a two year contract with a 5g fee if i left early. It was a QA consulting company, not my field of choice, but i was desperate.
in april 2004, they place me at a company in CT(XYZ), where i do my work for the next year or so. Right around the one year mark march 2005, i become very jaded by the work, and decide to look for a new job, fully aware of the 5g fee i would have to pony up back to the consulting company. I find a developing position (w00t) and accept the offer and all that. surprisingly enough, XYZ makes me a bigger offer to stay on with them, and i choose XYZ (hey money talks).
XYZ decides to pay my 5g fee for leaving the consulting company so i was pretty excited about that. during this transition time, the director XYZ takes me aside and tells me not to tell anyone at ABC my salary or else he'd fire me on the spot...i thought this was an odd request, because it wasn't like i was about to blab my salary to everyone...ABC also calls me up and threatens me telling me that if anyone else from my consulting company leaves under similar circumstances they will "come after me". It was a bitter phone conversation, and bridges were burned.
one month later, a guy that wasn't in my group at the company at XYZ, but also a consultant from ABC leaves the ABC, for a developing position elsewhere, the next month, another guy leaves, and then another, and then another...so now its sept 2005, and a total of 10 people have left the company for better offers elsewhere, or a career change or whatever 3 from XYZ, and 7 elsewhere...
fast forward to this past friday, the director pulls me aside, and informs me that the VP at the ABC has contacted him and told him that i've been gloating about my salary to all the people at ABC, and convincing them to leave the consulting company for better money. This is an absolute lie, and completely baseless...and according to what my director said back in march, he can fire me because of this.
this is the problem, i don't care so much that they're lying about what i did, but it will affect my reputation with XYZ, and can potentially get me fired if they keep spreading this vicious lie...
so my question to atot would be...what to do?
call up consulting company and b!tch at them for spreading lies?
leave it alone?
other...?
edited with faux company names to protect the innocent, or whatever.
so back in march 2004, while i was desperately looking for a job, i signed up with a consulting company(ABC). I signed a two year contract with a 5g fee if i left early. It was a QA consulting company, not my field of choice, but i was desperate.
in april 2004, they place me at a company in CT(XYZ), where i do my work for the next year or so. Right around the one year mark march 2005, i become very jaded by the work, and decide to look for a new job, fully aware of the 5g fee i would have to pony up back to the consulting company. I find a developing position (w00t) and accept the offer and all that. surprisingly enough, XYZ makes me a bigger offer to stay on with them, and i choose XYZ (hey money talks).
XYZ decides to pay my 5g fee for leaving the consulting company so i was pretty excited about that. during this transition time, the director XYZ takes me aside and tells me not to tell anyone at ABC my salary or else he'd fire me on the spot...i thought this was an odd request, because it wasn't like i was about to blab my salary to everyone...ABC also calls me up and threatens me telling me that if anyone else from my consulting company leaves under similar circumstances they will "come after me". It was a bitter phone conversation, and bridges were burned.
one month later, a guy that wasn't in my group at the company at XYZ, but also a consultant from ABC leaves the ABC, for a developing position elsewhere, the next month, another guy leaves, and then another, and then another...so now its sept 2005, and a total of 10 people have left the company for better offers elsewhere, or a career change or whatever 3 from XYZ, and 7 elsewhere...
fast forward to this past friday, the director pulls me aside, and informs me that the VP at the ABC has contacted him and told him that i've been gloating about my salary to all the people at ABC, and convincing them to leave the consulting company for better money. This is an absolute lie, and completely baseless...and according to what my director said back in march, he can fire me because of this.
this is the problem, i don't care so much that they're lying about what i did, but it will affect my reputation with XYZ, and can potentially get me fired if they keep spreading this vicious lie...
so my question to atot would be...what to do?
call up consulting company and b!tch at them for spreading lies?
leave it alone?
other...?
edited with faux company names to protect the innocent, or whatever.
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