Monday I started back at work after mat leave round 2. Mon arvo, as I'm on the way home, new manager calls and asks for my resume - he has a project in mind that he wants to place me on but needs to send the project manager my resume first to see if the PM thinks I'm a good fit.
Tuesday, at home with kids, I hurriedly email him my resume and say "if it needs to be changed please let me know and I can work on it while the kids are asleep". Hear nothing.
Nothing said yesterday, at work. Then today at work a friend asks me, quietly, if I've applied for a new role? Apparently on Tuesday he saw my name on a resume someone was reading in a coffee shop at work. He was writing on it, then another woman joined him and they proceeded to bag out my resume. Things like why had I included something, how "amateurish" it looked, etc.
Friend doesn't know my manager or the PM so doesn't know if it was either of them.
But how unprofessional. I work for a company that prides itself on the behavior and values of all employees and here are two of them dissecting a resume in plain view of anyone who cared to walk by.
I feel like I want to say something to my manager. What would you do?
If you feel confident in bringing it up then i don't see an issue, maybe just say that someone mentioned they saw your resume being overlooked in the cafe and wondered what was happening.
That's so rude, not to mention unprofessional!!! I would probably be too scared to say something, but yes if you have the courage go for it! I agree with ZF, maybe just mention it was seen but not say what was heard.
I would definitely say something! I would just mention that you feel a bit compromised as soemone saw your resume being reviewed in a public place and questioned if you were going for another job. Hopefully if it was the PM your manager will take up your cause and pull them up on it. If it was your manager then they will probably be suitably embarrassed and wonder what else was overheard and hopefully apologise to you.
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i would just let it go and keep it in the back of your mind as someone not to trust
an occassion will come up to bring it up some time- just file the info in the back of your brain and remember it!!!!!
once bitten !!!
I'm not sure what line of work you are in but is there someone higher up you can send an email or letter to about this?
It is highly unprofessional and downright RUDE of them to be doing that in a public place.
If the company you work for do, as you said," prides itself on the behavior and values of all employees" then I don't see the problem in taking an issue like this forward to the higher ups.
Good Luck xoxo
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