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Whether you resign or are being discharged, you run the risk of ruining your own future by not leaving a job quietly.

You should make it a point not to say anything negative about the company or anyone in it while you are still there, and after you leave. As hard as it may be, it is the only way to avoid having yourself branded as difficult to work with or a dissident who cannot get along with others in the workplace.

Interviewers talk to supervisors and virtually anyone else who will talk when checking up on you. What is said after a discharge may figure in the comments a former associate makes to a prospective employer.

Another area in which people leaving a company need to exercise caution is the exit interview. Someone leaving the firm under the circumstances of resignation may feel the exit interview presents an opportunity to “unload” all the pent up frustrations and resentments the individual may have accumulated during his or her tenure. It is not something that you should do. Your comments may go into the personnel files and will be part of your permanent record with the company, or you might alienate someone who could be called regarding your background.

When prospective employers call your former employer seeking information about you, the negative comments you expressed may be read or even sent to them. You would probably never know, because you have no control over that material.

With regard to references, most companies today are extremely reluctant to volunteer reference information because they want to avoid the possibility of saying something negative. However, your negative exit interview may still wind up in the wrong hands.

Perhaps the most difficult thing to avoid while you are still on the job is expressing your negative thoughts to friends or confidantes at the company. Your feeling is that you can trust those people, and that they will not do anything to harm you after you are gone. Remember they still work for your former employer. Nevertheless, your comments stand a good chance of being repeated where you would rather they not be heard.

Recent incidents of former employees “telling off” their former co-workers and employers in emails and through viral videos is not the best way to get attention. While you may feel wronged in your termination, discuss it privately with friends and family, and if necessary, an attorney, but don’t send public emails to everyone in your office that can be forwarded to your potential new employers.

For the dischargee in particular, there are sure to be feelings of bitterness and resentment against the former employer. When you start interviewing for another job, one of the first things the prospective employer wants to know is what your relationships were with previous employers. It is one major way he or she gauges what kind of an employee you will be.

There is a strong temptation to criticize former employers to salve your own ego, especially if you are resentful of one or more of them. It seems to present an ideal opportunity to “even the score” against someone whom you think treated you badly. There may be excellent reasons for criticizing that employer. Even so, forget it.

Employers want workers who are interested in the company’s needs rather than their own. They do not want to hire complainers who will balk when they do not get their own way. If you come across as a self-server, you will not be successful in your job search. Employers are not concerned with your personal agenda. They want people who have a ready, willing and able attitude. Successful job seekers are those who come across as being glad to work on what the employer wants, and that is whatever will directly benefit the company’s bottom line. Employers want happy people.

For all of these reasons, you should keep your negative thoughts about former employers to yourself. Instead, give the impression that as far as you are concerned, everyone you ever met was nice. Communicate the positives about your relationships with former employers, even though in some cases you feel they may be hard to find.

-James Challenger is CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., global outplacement consultants based in Chicago.