In my home country, we never tell our current colleagues where we are going when we leave a job, especially if it’s going to a competitor. However, in the US, it seems that it’s common people will share that information easily. I’m usually afraid that they would call up my new firm behind my back and badmouth me.

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Employers in the US are too afraid of getting sued if they speak poorly of an employee to another employer. But setting that aside, I don't really understand the reluctance to tell people. They generally figure it out eventually anyway. It just feels kind of rude to refuse to tell.

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AA1. It is mainly paranoia on their end. I do know of someone that got their offer rescinded after getting blackballed. The old company took them back and essentially said, "we'll give you x months to find another gig." (The person gave his notice but wasn't officially offboarded yet.)

I am in the asset mgt industry and it is a small universe. That whole 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon thing, especially when you've been in a certain industry long enough. But you'd have to be a real jerk to go out of your way to bad mouth someone at their new place.

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I have never heard of a US lawyer, staff or administrator calling to another lawyer’s firm to say negative things. I would be surprised at such a thing. (And yes, a good deal of what prevents this kind of behavior is the possibility of being sued.)

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