Re:IDI Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
by x0x0 on Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:01AM
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Wow, bragging in an interview about riding employees hard is special. OTOH, you should be grateful! That may have saved you from an awful situation. (But yeah, I bet they're currently whining about an engineering shortage.)
Anyhow, I didn't provide my ssn, just drivers license plus my current address on a utility bill. I'm sure CA has already sold them the drivers license data anyway.
Re:IDI Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
by whorleater on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:55PM
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Technically they only ask for 1 of each column, so it's not as revealing as it seems. You could go apply for a new state ID, use that for Category A (revealing your address/birthday/weight/eye color/donor status/tiny image of your face), and then send them a gas bill (revealing address and last 4 digits of credit card). Assuming you've done any shopping online in the past 4 years your address is probably already on file, so the only new information they'd have is your birthday and personal stats.
That might actually be worth it if the original comment is correct and they have ~60 pages of information available on file per person.
It would be funny if you sent in the form and then if you weren't in the system, they'd just photocopy the form and send it back to you with a "thank you" note.
Funny side story about them: I tried to interview there once, many years ago. They have this antiquated in-house developed query language -- a skill you couldn't transfer anywhere. So you'd sort of be stuck there, for life.
Up-front said would force me to works on weekends, for what already was looking like a miserable pay. As if living in Dayton, Ohio wouldn't have been enough punishment.
Best part was the future manager made a joke about how she likes to "crack her whip sometimes", which made the other engineer in the room laugh ... nervously. Was half expecting him pull me to the side and whisper "escape while you still can".