Noone told me directly that they just spoke with my previous boss, from whom I actually have a good recommendation letter and that he spoke badly about me on the phone. It just doent happen like that. What happened is that 2 or 3 weeks after I enter a new job, probably the time they are making the background checks (they always deny to be making them as they are illegal), I just started to ear things on the corridor, suposely referring to my past, that I had this and the other problem, which of course is not true. But they actually never confront me. Sadly, germans always tend to believe anything an ex-boss says even though he might be the more dishonest person alive. Basically, the lies I previously eard in portuguese, while I was working there, I now ear them in german, without me having said anything on the subject. Weird, isnt it ? Exactly the same sentences, at precisely the same time, (3-1 month) after I enter a new job. 3 times in a row. Only difference: they were translated. My conclusion, there are people, who just write whatever they want on these Arbeitszeugnisse and still have the chance to say anything completly different on the phone.

Wie hast Du das denn erlebt? Hast Du direkt danebengestanden? Oder hat Dir der neue Arbeitgeber das erzaehlt?

Ich habe es schon erlebt. Echt.

Um dagegen etwas unternehmen zu können, müsstest Du ihm das erstmal nachweisen können - daran dürfte es dann in der Praxis wohl hapern. Hast Du denn Grund anzunehmen, dass Dein Ex-Vorgesetzter sich am Telefon so ganz anders - und negativ - über Dich auslassen würde?

Wie wert sind wirklich die Arbeitszeugnisse, wenn der ex-Vorgesetzte immer die Möglichkeit hat alles was auf dem Papier unter seiner eigenen Unterschrifft am Telefon widersprichen darf ???? Was kann man dagegen machen ???