I tried to quit yesterday because of an extremely toxic (and honestly starting to cross over into abusive) workplace and my manager told me if I went through with it, she would mark me as unhireable.
These are her exact words: “Quitting without notice will make you unhireable and will look REALLY bad if anyone calls for a reference from (where I work). You don't want to be labelled unrehireable. If an employer says that to another employer, they automatically lump that into you having stolen from your previous employer. Legally they can't go into detail about why you're unrehireable. That leaves it up to the potential new employer to fill in the blanks. You don't want that.”
She kept pushing me to not quit and said she'll only let me go without being labeled unhireable if I consider that my notice. I'm confused. She said both “unhireable” and “unREhireable”. I have absolutely no desire to work for this company EVER again, but she's making it sound like this mark will make it so I can't get hired by others too. Blacklisting is illegal in my state, what exactly is it that she's doing? This doesn't sound okay whatsoever