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How Far Should a Job Screening Go?
SlashSquatch asks: "My sister is getting screened for a programming position with a financial firm. I was alarmed to hear she'll be getting fingerprinted at the Sheriff's Office as part of the screening process. Instantly I conjure up scenes of frame-ups and corporate scandals. I want to know, should this raise a flag? Would you submit to fingerprinting, blood tests and who knows what else (financial, genetic code, and so forth) for a programming position?"
then that is too far
for a job interview, well, I think it was a job interview, I mean the guy in the alley gave me $50 to watch. That makes it a job interview, right? He wanted to know if I could make smalltalk with a lisp then hack my python till it spewed Java. that sounds like a tech job doesn't it?
"Completely sober?! Can't be having with that..."
I got finger printed working for my local church. It's not that unreasonable to check your background. You wouldn't want to be programming with a muderer, or someone that throws chairs would you?
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
...and if they just went by name, they might hire the wrong Michael Bolton!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I'd be concerned when they ask "Do you think you're special, Mr. Anderson?"
[Insert pithy quote here]
"I understand that employers feel they need to protect themselves but they shouldn't be so paranoid as to limit their employee pool to only the financially stable, mentally stable and law abiding."
Companies should hire more people who can't handle basic finance, are mentally unstable, and known to break laws. I'd definately like to work at a place like that!
Ninjas don't carry tic tacs
"Lisa, a guy who's got lots of ivory is _less_ likely to hurt Stampy than a guy whose ivory supplies are low."
I am not a crackpot.
Besides, having seen some of the keyboards I've been exposed to in different jobs....how do they get through all of that crap to get fingerprints?
...no shit, cheezy poof powder! Oh! Fingerprints?...Uhmmm... ....it could be anywhere from one demented asshole, to three million high-turnover, disgruntled employees!?!
Forensic lab tech1: 'We've got the results analysed...
Forensic lab tech2 '...and it's definately Mountain Dew, Cum Stains, Red Bull, and...
Forensic lab tech1:
Forensic lab tech2:
Forensic lab tech1: 'Basically, we need more data to pin this down...'
Forensic lab tech2: 'Ah, yeah...Hmmm?...which server had that pr0n directory on it?
Forensic lab tech1: 'Sounds like a plan...you grab the Mountain Dew, and I'll grab the cheezy poofs!
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
They let her go but everyone was thinking "what is she trying to hide?"
Wow. She was lucky to get out of there at the start. I bet she'd have hated to find out she was working for a company staffed entirely by judgemental jerks after she'd been there long enough to find out.
I got finger printed working for my local church.
That's so they can compare your prints against those they pull off the buttocks of altar boys, Father.
It wouldn't be /. if we didn't have 4 different people spouting out 4 different statistics that were rapidly pulled out of entirely different rectums.
Props to packetmon for actually citing his statistic.
$diff terrorists hippies
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$rm -rf *terrorists *hippies
Pawns? Was your dad a 19th century absentee landlord? Yeesh. No sé si de verdad les llamaras peones, pero .. joder.
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.