Final stages of interviewing for a job I am really excited about outside of current industry. Very mucha t the beginning of my career (2 YOE) - built up the courage to ask a *trusted* senior manager for a reference who happily said he „would be honored“. Now, a week later he calls because they reached out to him, telling me that he cant give me a reference after all because its a „conflict of interest“. Has this ever happened to someone? I am feeling incredibly betrayed. Am I being naive?

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Bruh be happy he didn’t fire you

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Lol yeah I hear you. Still super not cool

Not sure what company you work for, or what system you have in place, but I've thought about screenshoting my feedback reviews in case something like this happens.

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I’d feel betrayed, too. I’ve never heard of that happening but it’s pretty shitty. I guess you just have to find someone else. Sorry this happened to you 😔

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