What comes around goes around.
 

I have written of my former job and boss woes. I was let go in late July, but quickly landed on my feet in a much better place. I knew my boss didn't want to can me, but was ordered to do so by his new boss (who is a complete idiot and is running that org into the ground and, himself, will be fired eventually). Well, today I learned my old boss was also let go. Mind you, our team was the number one performing team in the company, was the only one over goal for 2013 and my old boss is pretty well respected and highly thought of. That's what you get for great or poor performance - canned either way. The rest of my former team was dissolved and in Jan. will report to other regional managers who have no idea what our side of the business did.

Here's where it gets really crazy. My former boss is being "allowed" to apply for three open positions - two of which are below him, but one would be a promotion...... but it's located in Hong Kong. The head the Asia division is a guy in Beijing, who is a very close friend of mine and whom I've visited at the office in Beijing a few times, knows my folks and is just a super guy. We talk all the time to pick each other's brains and gossip. Tonight he asked me to write him an evaluation of my old boss!!! I'm now in the position of writing a "recommendation" for the guy who canned me. I relish the irony.

Every day I wake up and am thankful I got canned and landed in such a better place so quickly. What a wreck the former company is.

Wow that is true irony! However, being honest will be better for you in the long run. Remember, he let you go for his boss's reasons, not for his own.

You mean what goes around comes around.

honestly, I would not put anything in writing. You never know what someone will sue you for.

+1

I would look for a way out of it. No good can come off this. Just go corporate and say you'll be happy to verify his dates of employment ;as they overlapped yours) and his role in the company. That's it. I really wouldn't go any further than that.

I wrote great things about him. I have no beef with him. I worked for him for 12 yrs. and it wasn't because I couldn't find a better job that whole time. The boss in China knows him a little, but knows I know him very well and also how they do business over there, and so he wanted to know how good a fit he'd be. In fact, he was already leaning heavily toward my former boss, though I don't think he has the final word on it. I'd have no problem with my former boss seeing what I wrote. He'd probably agree with every word of it.

My current company is starting to hire people in the DC area and so I also sent an email to the HR boss to ask if they had a position of his (former boss's) level they had not yet posted on the website, as I'd like to recommend him.