So I walked out of my previous job (dm) back in September as the working enviroment and my boss was toxic. I have just got a new job through an agency.
They asked for reference so I gave them 3 one was a guy that worked previously for (dm) but he left before I did.
However I never gave any contact details for (dm) and at no time gave permission to contact them as I knew that the boss would never give me a good review.
So you can imagine my surprise when the agency came back to me and said I'd had a reference back from(dm).
Luckily it had been picked up by a work colleague of mine that I worked well with and she emailed them back with a reference. But if the boss had seen it, I would have lost this job.
I am really peeved that they did this I know no harm was done but still, this shouldn't have happened.