Timeline for Company threatening to call my current job after I declined their offer
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 7:24 | comment | added | Erwin Bolwidt | The country is very relevant here. In the Netherlands, the hiring manager calling your current employer to tell that you rejected their offer could be prosecuted under both civil and criminal law under a concept ("smaad") that is close to "defamation", except that the defaming claim doesn't have to be wrong. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 7:24 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @VLAZ If the hiring manager does call the bluff and calls the employer, the OP will be in exactly the same situation as they would have been if they followed the advice from any other answer. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 7:20 | comment | added | VLAZ | @DmitryGrigoryev except what if he calls the bluff and does call the employer? Then everything falls apart. And the hiring manager would have probably checked if there is a legal case, so if there isn't that bluff is useless. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 6:21 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @Barmar Exactly. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 6:17 | comment | added | Barmar | So you're suggesting a counter-bluff? He threatens to call the manager, so you threaten to sue him. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 6:17 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @MartinBonner Where did I advise to bring the manager to court? You seem to argue with something I didn't even write. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 6:14 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @Barmar There doesn't have to be a case, and even there is one, I didn't suggest to actually sue. Theoretically there could be grounds for a case if e.g. the OP loses their job over this. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 6:08 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @Quentin Why not? The hiring manager is obviously doing something inappropriate, and a threat (even an empty one) is likely to make him reconsider. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 0:49 | comment | added | Stilez | The UK legal case would be tortious interference with a contract - the contract being your current employment, and the interference being up to the court to consider if reasonable. Revenge/retaliation especially of this almost unheard of type, wouldn't usually be reasonable. If the threat was accompanied by an "unless you join us" or "unless you do [something] we demand" (explicit or merely implied) it would be an unwarranted demand with menaces - blackmail. | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 20:05 | comment | added | Val | @donjuedo : It would be only blackmail if he demanded something from you in exchange for him not doing what he threatened to do. I'm not saying it's ethical, I'm only saying that it probably doesn't legally count as blackmail | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 17:20 | comment | added | Barmar | @donjuedo Threatening to call the current manager if he doesn't accept the offer seems like blackmail. Actually calling the manager isn't. | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 16:30 | comment | added | donjuedo | @Barmar, In the US, it might be legally considered blackmail. IANAL, though. | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 16:08 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @Dmitry. I am only really familiar with the law in England and Wales, but in that jurisdiction the case would be thrown out of court - probably before track allocation - and the OP would be on the hook to pay the hiring manager's lawyers. This is REALLY bad advice. | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 15:39 | comment | added | Barmar | What would be the legal case? | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 15:00 | comment | added | Quentin | Don't threaten legal action unless you actually plan to take it, and don't plan to take it without consulting a lawyer. | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 14:54 | comment | added | Philipp | It's easy to say what one should do in hindsight. | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 14:21 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 26, 2019 at 13:52 | history | answered | Dmitry Grigoryev | CC BY-SA 4.0 |