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May. 17th, 2021 08:59 pmSo apparently one of our employees (not at my center, but at one of the other ones my manager is in charge of) falsified parts of his application when he was hired last year. He gave us a fake social security number. The real one comes back with a fairly extensive arrest history and drug charges. (:
The way the background checks we do work is that they look at name and ssn in combination (so that there isn't a concern about someone sharing the same name as someone else), but it's JUST a check of criminal history. So there's no way for it to distinguish between "no criminal record" and "no record at all."
I don't know how this issue was discovered, except that it's both the end of tax season and also the time of year that the state asks for our people to recertify (including a new background check and driving record search), so I'm guessing one or the other of those things led to finding his real ssn, and therefore the accurate background.
So, uh... that's going to suck. He's obviously going to be fired, since a clean background check is a requirement. Unfortunately, the center he's at has very few instructors, so his schedule is completely full, which will require a LOT of rescheduling those students.
I'm anticipating that my day tomorrow (and probably Wednesday) is going to be taken up with trying to deal with that stuff. (Unfortunately, I'm "good" at rescheduling people. As in, I have a very sympathetic voice over the phone, so getting bad news from me isn't the worst that it could be. This is unfortunate for me, because I HATE it. It activates my rejection-sensitive dysphoria like mad, because I know I'm having to give people news that will disappoint or upset them, and I do not know in advance how they are going to take it.)
Not excited about that, heh.
The way the background checks we do work is that they look at name and ssn in combination (so that there isn't a concern about someone sharing the same name as someone else), but it's JUST a check of criminal history. So there's no way for it to distinguish between "no criminal record" and "no record at all."
I don't know how this issue was discovered, except that it's both the end of tax season and also the time of year that the state asks for our people to recertify (including a new background check and driving record search), so I'm guessing one or the other of those things led to finding his real ssn, and therefore the accurate background.
So, uh... that's going to suck. He's obviously going to be fired, since a clean background check is a requirement. Unfortunately, the center he's at has very few instructors, so his schedule is completely full, which will require a LOT of rescheduling those students.
I'm anticipating that my day tomorrow (and probably Wednesday) is going to be taken up with trying to deal with that stuff. (Unfortunately, I'm "good" at rescheduling people. As in, I have a very sympathetic voice over the phone, so getting bad news from me isn't the worst that it could be. This is unfortunate for me, because I HATE it. It activates my rejection-sensitive dysphoria like mad, because I know I'm having to give people news that will disappoint or upset them, and I do not know in advance how they are going to take it.)
Not excited about that, heh.
