>>>My favourite was this last sentence is a reference letter: "You will be very lucky if you get Jeff to work for you.".
>>>I took it for what it said but the three others reviewing the file immediately took it as 'good luck if you can get any work out of him. We didn't'. They passed on him.
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>>I don't know about Canada but I think in the UK the law states that you cannot give a bad job reference, but you can give a neutral. This sounds like using the "Ways and Means Act" to tip the prospective employer off. :-)
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>So you would have read it as a warning too?

Well, it COULD be interpreted that way ... or written by a hayseed - take your pick :-)

>I couldn't see any letter of reference stooping that low. I've refused to do them for some people, but never included code in any I did.

Well it seems you MAY have seen one now.