At my old place of employment, they were interviewing for a tech position. The interviewers both knew me and my family, and especially where my parents worked up the road. In comes a prospective employee, and when they asked why he left his last job, he proceeded to tell a long story about how his last boss hated him and had a vendetta agianst him because he was friendly with the previous bosses.
The last company he worked for was the one my parents did.
My mother was his boss with the “vendetta”.
The interviewers were still on the fence and asked me what I thought. I told them about how he was fired after I came in to disconnect the remote access and the intranet because his new boss found out he was passing confidential files to the ex-boss. About current contracts and pricing and such.
The worst part was that I really wanted him to get the job, and would have refrained from the story if he hadn’t talked shit about my mommy for 20 minutes. Only I get to do that.