Vegas Free-for-All - Doesnt anybody do background checks anymore?

Doesnt anybody do background checks anymore?

O2bnVegas

Jul 19, 2016
2:56am

Again, how many employees are assigned to background checks? Few compared to the number of job applications, I'd bet.

I had an employee for two years (not a sensitive position, but still...), when he was suddenly terminated in one day. He had falsified his application, omitted a previous felony conviction (drugs).

I can't even imagine how long it takes to investigate once a red flag on an application is picked up. They'd have to follow up on it to be certain they had the correct information. God help them if they terminated someone wrongly.

Yep, scary.

billryan

Jul 19, 2016
3:26am

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We are talking about the Federal Government vetting Intelligence Officers. When I applied for a ROTC scholarship, an FBI agent interviewed several of my teachers.

forkushV

Jul 19, 2016
6:44am

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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
Again, how many employees are assigned to background checks?...

The professional background check providers are a $2 billion per year industry. And that's not counting the major employers and school districts that conduct their own checks. It's pretty common.

jatki

Jul 19, 2016
3:37pm

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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
Back to the original topic:

Wayne Simmons sounds like a skilled imposter, and those guys are slick. They charm their way into jobs, move onto the next gig when they suspect heat.

Years ago I worked in a city hospital ER where a guy posed as a neurosurgeon. He performed surgery, was well thought of, they'd call him in on difficult cases. Turns out he had done some undergrad studies in neuroscience, conned the university medical school out of a hundred or so thousand dollar grant to do some research as a neurosurgeon. He vanished when it was coming to light that he was no kind of a doctor, let alone a neurosurgeon. Other surgeons who saw his work in the OR said he was good at it.

Sounds like a regular Frank Abagnale Jr.

jatki

Jul 19, 2016
3:43pm

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If we can't even properly vet OUR OWN CITIZENS for simple thi gs such as jobs, just who in thee hell would the US be able to propewrly vet any person from a place that has little to no records on most of their people.. Hillary wants to ramp up bringing these types in even tho different dept heads have said that proper vetting is damn near impossible.

forkushV

Jul 19, 2016
4:18pm

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If we can't even properly vet OUR OWN CITIZENS for simple thi gs such as jobs...

Dude, we CAN vet them, and there are probably dozens of background check services that could have exposed this guy overnight. Obviously Fox News didn't give a shit - no surprise there. And chances are he got his Army jobs because some dip got all horny about having a TV star in their midst.

jatki

Jul 21, 2016
12:16am

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Originally posted by: jatki99
If we can't even properly vet OUR OWN CITIZENS for simple thi gs such as jobs...

Sure there are plenty of ways for a backghround check, ,point is, thye weren't done DUH. it's not a fox thing exclusively, i'm sure it happens all the time.

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