Worried About Absconding Impacting Future Jobs? Insights on Background Checks Needed

Hi, I joined Infosys with 5 years of experience and absconded within 5 days due to a family crisis. I tried to make a smooth exit, but neither HR nor my manager assisted me. After a month, I received the first letter regarding a policy breach, and eventually, I was sent a termination letter. Some time later, I was contacted by a third-party background verification company, which Infosys had engaged during the onboarding process. Surprisingly, Infosys did not halt this process, and the verification company struggled to locate my address for verification. I did not answer their call but learned the reason for it from the message and email they sent. Despite numerous attempts to contact me via call and email, I did not respond to any of them. (I am unsure how the third party resolved the verification request subsequently.)

Now, I am concerned about the potential implications this may have on my future employability, especially when joining a new company or transitioning to a different project, as many IT firms utilize the services of the same background verification company. This issue has been troubling me for the past few days. I would appreciate your valuable insights on this matter.

It would be better if you apologize for your behavior and try to get a relieving letter from the company and part on good terms. This will sort out your problem once and for all.

In case the company is refusing to give you a relieving letter, then you have no other option but to approach the labor office of your area and file a complaint requesting the release of a relieving letter.

The suggestions given by our learned friend SOGEMAR are nice, but I am a bit doubtful whether they are workable in the context of the events narrated in the post. It seems that the poster was compelled to abscond five days after joining due to family problems. Since his initial efforts for a smooth exit were not fruitful and orders of termination on account of breach of contract were already issued, he remained incommunicado during the background verification conducted belatedly under the impression that it would be closed at that stage. I don't think that the management would issue relieving orders after termination when they were not ready to accept the precarious condition of an employee beyond his control soon after his joining, even on humanitarian grounds. Maybe they thought that the poster used abscondence due to a family crisis as a ploy to exit. When the termination orders themselves are self-explanatory, I don't think any Labor Officer would tender any advice to the management in this regard, apart from the question of his eligibility to raise a complaint for his total service with the company being just 5 days only.

After a very careful reading of the post, a strong inference occurs to me, which may be wrong, of course, that after five days of joining, the poster would not have been satisfied with the working environment for some subjective reasons or other and in the meantime got a good offer from somewhere else and decided to abscond and not to cooperate with the subsequent background verification. Therefore, it is better for him to disclose the fact of his termination and explain the circumstances in a convincing way to the new employer.