OT - Explaining periods of unemployment on an application

[JD Austin]

Hold on.. they fired people that were ACQUITTED of a crime?  That seems a
bit too far :(
If a court can't find them guilty how can an employer?


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 14:38, Tim Bogart <timbogart at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I like your response.  At a company with which I worked for many years,
> many years ago used to send me email on a daily basis listing folks who had
> been terminated.  Of those, many were terminated because of falsehoods on
> their applications.  And of those, not nearly, but ALL were due to
> information omitted regarding some crime that the individual had committed.
>  And they ran the gambit from robbery to murder.  Yes, murder, believe it or
> not. But in fairness, of those, they involved folks who had been tried for
> murder and had been exonerated by some means (found not guilty, thrown out
> due to mistrial or other reasons) but the point is that they had concealed
> the facts regarding criminal activities (I mean seriously, how can you
> forget to list something like that, or how can you think it somehow doesn't
> qualify as something a potential employer would not be interested?) that are
> easily checked.
>
> Tim B.
>
> I'm sticking with Grandpa Jones here...
> "True is stranger than fact."
> Hee-Haw
>
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