Yeah I’m working now but writing an employee letter of recommendation is something supervisors aren’t allowed to do, per written policy at my company. Additionally, if co-workers write letters of recommendation, they must be done on personal time (i.e, at home).
Since most of my coworkers are busy people with families, kids, and hobbies, and don’t work on things like this at home, but also can’t do it while on the job, it’s asking a lot of someone to write a letter of recommendation for me as an adult.
It was way less awkward when I was a student.
(And frankly, I’m not 100% confident I have the greatest reputation in my company. I do my best work each day and some people like me and some people don’t, and frankly, I don’t really want to spend any time trying to figure out who would write nice letters of recommendation and who would not. I suspect this is not a lot different than a lot of people today.)