How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs

Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by AmericanBlarney on Thursday December 23, 2021 @06:43PM (#29667957)

Incorrect on background checks - there are employment verification services that get quite a lot of data (many companies opt in to sending them payroll data).

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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by sgerenser on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:51PM (#29668572)

I tried pulling my TheWorkNumber report, and I was surprised to see my weekly salary history not only at my current and prior BigCo jobs, but also at my prior small (~100 employees) company. Apparently they used ADP for payroll and that was enough to get into the Work Number database. I’m not sure I HireRight always cross references with databases like TheWorkNumber, but it would be trivial for them to do so.

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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by masterof0 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:57PM (#29668620)

Isn't that illegal? Checking on candidates current salary?

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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by actually_a_dog on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:02PM (#29668680)

Not in most states. California is a big exception.

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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by endisneigh on Thursday December 23, 2021 @06:47PM (#29667994)

Which ones?

HireRight and Sterling both only verified what I sent.

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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by actually_a_dog on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:02PM (#29668132)

That's not a meaningful statement without quantifying what "a lot of data" and "many companies" mean.

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