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EastChestnut
08/07/09

In reply to The Unemployed's Newest Enemy: Cheap Credit Reports
Credit Reports are a great to figure out if you're going to pay BACK borrowed money.
They do not indicate at all whether you are liable to steal money.
I mean, if you were willing to steal money, wouldn't you steal the money NOW so you don't have to go into default later?
Employers are believe this shit because Experian got SHRM (Society For Human Resource Management) to shill credit reports as lie detector tests.
It's not a credit score anymore... now employers see it as an "ethics score"
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Magister
08/07/09

In reply to The Unemployed's Newest Enemy: Cheap Credit Reports
Should we expect identity thieves to move from lurking around mailboxes to middle management?
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Adah
08/07/09

In reply to The Unemployed's Newest Enemy: Cheap Credit Reports
Or, you know, if you're unemployed you could consider cancelling your cell phone in order to save money...
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katekate is squared
08/07/09

@Adah: I don't know about some other people, my my cell phone is my only phone.
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CaptainFantastic
08/07/09

@Adah: Wouldn't they tack on some sort of cancellation fee? I'm assuming you're still under the 2-year contract that they got you to sign up for by dangling a cheap phone in front of you. (second sentence needs editing)
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
08/07/09

@Adah:
I hope you're being sarcastic. I honestly can't tell.
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The Real JR
08/07/09

@katekate is squared: Raises hand as well.
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cmd
08/07/09

@The Real JR: Only the olds still have a land line.
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cellardoor
08/07/09

@cmd: Or people who live in apartments who need landlines to buzz in visitors through the security gate. Or run a business from their home and need a fax (yes, major corporations still use faxes to communicate with consultants). Or those who live in earthquake prone areas and need a hardwire landline. :-)
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misslinda
08/07/09

@cmd: I'm not an old, and I have a landline. No way in hell I'm giving up my 212. Also, when it rings, I know it's either my mother or a telemarketer so I don't even bother answering.
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Iwillnotauditionforastar
08/07/09

In reply to The Unemployed's Newest Enemy: Cheap Credit Reports
It's called loss prevention. The question of whether those who are tempted to steal are tempted because they are in dire financial straits. Possibly stealing everything from pens to customer packages.

See if you are in shipping where there is no money, you can still divert customer orders so you can sell them on ebay.

In other words, every employee deals with money, if you realize that assets can be sold for money

Like that computer at the empty cubicle next to you? $300 when you sell it.

Thinking that you have to be handling dollar bills for it to be the purview of loss prevention is so 1980's.

It has been going on for 15+ years. Johny come lately's.

*punch* *punch*

Not every article is "new" news, right Gabriel?
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son of spam
08/07/09

@Iwillnotauditionforastar: Forgive me for going all libertarian here, but it's actually called invasion of privacy. There is a difference between screening for criminality and screening for credit worthiness.
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The Real JR
08/07/09

@son of spam: I believe you sign away part of your privacy when you fill out that application with your SSN# and sign the back so they can have their way with whatever info they can find with what you've signed away to them.
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son of spam
08/07/09

@The Real JR: Understood. But that doesn't make it right. Employers should be held to stricter "need to know" guidelines, in my opinion.
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