# Applying for a job where I'd prefer that they don't talk to my previous supervisor. How?

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**Created:** [August 31, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/applying-for-a-job-where-id-prefer-that-they-dont-talk-to-my-previous-supervisor-how/508368 "2009-08-31T17:04:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/applying-for-a-job-where-id-prefer-that-they-dont-talk-to-my-previous-supervisor-how/508368/21 "2009-09-22T20:27:42Z")

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Not sure if this would be an option for **davidm** , but I could have written the OP myself a few years ago. How I decided to handle it: The _job_ itself remains on the resume, but the supervisor listed is the one I had _before_ the asshole took over (whom I actually liked).  
Phone number is the main switchboard of a nationwide company with 18,000 employees.

As far as I know, nobody tried to contact either of them, and it never came up in any interviews.

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