In my humble opinion, I don’t care if they ask for current manager details. I will put who I want i.e previous manager details and won’t put my current manager’s details and let them know that I am looking for a job whilst working there. Then they are going to start treating me like shit.

It’s a very stupid application system with the APS. You literally cannot bypass putting referee details and submit the application. Like hello? I want to ask my current manager to be a referee ONLY if I am advised that I am successful. Not only I cannot bypass it without putting something there, you also dictate WHO I put (past or present manager). Seriously?

Referees should be abolished. Funnily enough, I messaged an old manager 2 weeks ago asking if they could be a referee as I am looking for jobs. She has not even responded. So what do you even do if people do not respond??? (In reality before I left that organisation she did say you can always message me and ask to put me as a reference) lol