It's a rooster's head, beak is the cock pointing left
HR calls the other company to ask. Different states have different rules. Some can only confirm employment and salary. The range goes all the way to giving a full eval and why they left. Some companies wont do it because of litigation though. Dont get fired, and definitely dont lie.
All my years in HR and not 1 company gave me any more info than dates worked and salary.
I've worked as a manager for years and had many ppl call for references. I've never given out anything more than dates and position held. I think I am allowed to say why/how they left but I'm not certain so I never say anything.
While your shitty reputation might be protected "by law", I can guarantee you that no hiring manager in the corporate world worth a damn will hire people that they cannot get back channel feedback on. The worst thing you can do for yourself is burn your bridges on the way out of a company.
I'm a manager of a software security team, so I tend to come across allot of entitled snowflake hackers that have never held a real job and are used to companies throwing money at them to come work for them.
Some of them are immature, unprofessional, untrustworthy, or generally emotionally unstable. Trust me when I say that your reputation will follow you around, we know who is a management nightmare and keep them on a mental blacklist. Its not hard to find someone you know who worked with a candidate with tools like LinkedIn.
Also, its pretty uncommon in the corporate world to be "fired without notice", unless you are sexually harassing people or stealing from the company.
The danger of litigation from an employee, especially one in a protected class, is very real, even if you don't cite their class as reason for termination. Like said before, its auto-lose for the company.
Employees are almost always put on performance improvement programs prior to termination, not to actually improve performance in most cases, but to protect the company and document the continue failures. That process usually takes months, so to say companies fire without notice is usually not true.
Hiring unprofessional assholes who do stupid shit to spite their bosses on the way out is literally the last thing anyone wants to do.
ROFL.. Dude we hire soo many fucking tards with bullshit creds that are never ever checked other than a phone call to someone says yes that person was here..
If you work for a large company is not even unheard of to have employees 2 steps under a manager who HR hasnt ever had to deal with that just walked.. That guy isnt going to have a problem getting a job. You gotta be pretty baller to even be remembered at larger companies. My old Vice President who streamlined this fucking failure of a project 2 years ago left. No one even fucking remembers him and he was making like 300k/yr. 1 HR recalls him being a pain in the ass and no one outside my division remembers him at all.
Maybe for your little industry or something this is not the case but i have done some major shit at ATT when walking out the door and no one will fucking ever know about it when i apply at any company. The only reason anyone up top even knows who i am is because im the sole dev of a program that brings in 10 mil+ a year. If not for that i wouldnt even be noticed outside of 50 direct coworkers.
get a new job 1st