I can't get a job anywhere because I keep failing background checks

Seriously get a job with a oil field service company. Working in the oil field is hard and demanding but You can bet the average Joe wouldn't do it. I'll make another point about the oil field if pays pretty good and it's rewarding if You bust Your butt. I have been working offshore for 18 years and I make 500 to 600 a day watching other people work. Also I would acquire a skill such as welding or diesel mechanic then You would always have a job if You don't mind traveling.

LOL

I call BS, too. Companies are required to tell the applicant the name of the company which they used to compile the check. That background check company is required to provide a FREE copy of the report. I think the OP is just trolling. Either that or he's just plain ignorant and has no life skills.

Youncan always dress up as a women and .... Do the she he

I didn't say pending charges. Did you see the word op next to the post? In my first post I said 2 misdemeanors on my record.

Tell em you lost your ssn and you need a new one or you have amnesia or something.....lol

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Place an ad on Craigslist for cheap tennis lessons. You'll have suburbanites lined up to dump off their children for an hour. Make the kids laugh and have a good time, whack a few balls around, and charge the parents $75 per kid. You don't even need a racquet. Just borrow one of the kids' every week. That's tax free income, and you'll get a little workout too. Use a public park at which to teach, so the taxpayer is subsidizing your workspace. The number one rule is, cash is king. The number two rule is, someone else picks up the bill. You might even find a soccer mom--or tennis, as it were--to have an affair with. Take a few pictures of her going down on you and after you've ridden that pony for all it's worth, blackmail her for $500 per week cash, or you'll post the pictures on her husband's company's Facebook page.

17 years old = minor. Background checks don't catch these. And even if you weren't a minor, something that happened almost 30 years ago wouldn't show up anyhow. Most background checks only go back 7 years. Top Secret clearance with the gov't may go back 10.

The employers are violating the law if they don't give you that info - so sayeth the FTC -

[link to www.consumer.ftc.gov]

You know I haven't checked my score in over a year but I paid off 2 cheap car loans and the credit union said my score was in the 600 something range. It was 0 just a couple years ago. How would that fuck up a background check? Isn't 800 considered perfect? I'd say my credit is alright.

Move to Philly. You'll be viewed as a model citizen there.
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+1 i dont make the decisions on the background check but i do the hiring. If your upfront about your past your in the green. ALL applications have a question about it "have you ever pleaded guilty or no contest" it dont matter if you were 9 and your now 40 that shit stick in your records....BTW ive hired people str8 out of prison from murder and they passed the background check because they were truthful.

OP, I am here to rescue you. It sounds like your rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) are being willfully violated over and over again by your prospective employees, and I am here to tell you that not only do you have rights (which I can help you become aware of), but that you are not alone: I, too, have lost jobs because of scumbag U.S. employers who have run illegal/unauthorized background checks on me, discriminated against me in violation of state law based on the results of said background checks, and lied to me about what my rights under the FCRA are (or didn't tell me what they were at all).

Here is the basics of what you need to know (let me know if you have questions; I'm sure you will):

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE FAIR CREDIT REPORTING ACT: [link to www.iapws.com]

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no your full of shit. the company meaning the state? yes.

In most states the checks can only go back around 10 years give or take a couple so you are full of shit to say it is forever

Not in Texas. At 17 you are an adult in the laws eyes in Texas. I was booked into Lew Starrett and then transferred to the old county in downtown Dallas. Look it up if you want.

Also as others have said, they are breaking the law by not providing him the name of the company that did the check.

30 years ago you could get a job with multiple misdemeanors on your record, even some felonies wouldn't preclude you from most jobs. In today's society, if you step out of line, even slightly, you're gonna have a really tough time finding work. Any kind of violence or theft on your record and you're basically precluded from most jobs.

^^^^^THIS x10000000000^^^^^

YOUR RIGHTS HERE: [link to www.imperativeinfo.com]

So sorry OP, you need to find someone who knows you on a personal level to hire you. Fuck these big corporations, you shouldn't support them with your labor, their policies are dehumanizing.

Dont know if its been said but the check your credit reports also
Do you have bad credit?

I have dealt with many, many managers and owners alike who run a wide variety of backgrounds checks (criminal background, employment and address history, driving record, credit scores, etc.) through a vast number of Consumer Reporting Agencies such as Verifications, Inc., General Information Systems, and Sterling InfoSystems Inc, just to name a few, and I have not seen one employer/manager/owner yet who is not interested in getting information on misdemeanors. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of job applications in the U.S. ask for ALL criminal convictions to be listed, not just felonies or convictions in the last seven years. You sir, are but ONE HR manager out of many.

I have actually made a nice little "cottage industry" out of infiltrating businesses and performing "sting operations" by pretending that I want a job just long enough to have an illegal background check run on me, and then settling out of court without an attorney. The number of employers who are currently violating the FCRA willfully would probably BLOW YOUR MIND.

I recently settled out of court with one for $20,000.00 without an attorney. If OP can become quite knowledgeable about the FCRA, then he doesn't even need an attorney to reach a settlement with these scumbag employers who have been violating his rights and, in fact, may get a bigger financial payoff if he goes it alone (as in, without an attorney).

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after 200 or so app i filed i found out my name came up on the O.F.A.C. LIST. now i have an attorney fighting to get my name off the list because of the faulty search tool

The same has happened to me and my spouse. Mine is more simple and I need to be clear about who I am. My spouse was never charged with anything. His crime was visiting his home town and giving someone a ride that he knew 7 years prior from high school. The cops were watching this person and well long story short they tried to charge my spouse with transporting drug even though my spouse had no idea that is what his former class mate was doing or had on him. So several years after that my spouse and I move back to his home town and he can't get a job. The charge was dismissed but was still on his record. We had to hire a lawyer to get his record cleared. It cost $1,500. It was worth it though.

I'm sorry, but this is terrible advice, because it dis-empowers OP, does nothing to address the root of his problem, and does not hold either the employers or the Consumer Reporting Agencies who are willfully violating his rights under the FCRA responsible for their illegal actions.

OP needs to start demanding copies of his complete background reports from every single one of these employers who have violated his rights and/or lied to him about not having the ability to give him a copy. If any employer uses a background check/consumer report obtained through a third-party vendor, such as a Consumer Reporting Agency, to take any adverse action (such as denying OP employment) based solely or partially on said background check/consumer report, then the employer is required by law to provide OP with a copy of the report.

As a matter of fact, any employer who uses the aforementioned check/report to deny OP employment is required to send a Pre-Adverse Action notice to op BEFORE denying him employment so he has ample opportunity to dispute the results of the check, and then send him an actual Adverse Action notice once the adverse action has actually been taken.

If the employer doesn't send the aforementioned notices, uses the check/report to discriminate against OP in violation of the EEOC (federal law) or State Law (or any law really), or didn't obtain proper and legal authorization (in the form of VALID Disclosure and Authorization paperwork) before running the check/report, then OP's rights have been violated WILLFULLY and he is entitled to damages. Not only this, but the issue is most likely SYSTEMIC, meaning there could be tens, hundreds, or even THOUSANDS of potential victims of these willful FCRA violations. What does this translate to? BIG-TIME CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT POTENTIAL.

The FCRA is DESIGNED to upheld through Class Action lawsuits, in terms of the statutory and punitive damages that are built in for willful violations.

Why the hell would I troll about being unemployed? There's nothing funny about not being able to find decent work. And yes walmart did provide me a copy of my report but like I said, they denied me employment based on my own admission. They use a company called GIS nationwide backgrouns investigation services.

Who is the one trolling? You a head honcho at walfart? If I can't buy a gun with a couple misdemeanors, how the hell can you buy a gun with a felony?? That bars you for life for ever legally purchasing one unless you expunged it dumbass

I feel for you OP.

Try not to be discouraged, I know it is scary. I had a CHARGE against me, no indictment (yes it was a felony charge, I was innocent), and the accusation alone caused me to be unemployable in my field for two years. Burned through my savings while working restaurants. I love restaurant jobs, don't get me wrong, just wasn't what I wanted to be doing.

After two years I was able to have the charge dismissed completely, but that two years lost in the prime of my working age sucked big-time. Will be a while before I dig myself out.

I have a job in my field now, paying 1/3 of what I made previously, and glad to have it. The economy is total shit for honest people who don't want to make a buck by fucking people over.

I hope your lawyer can clear any bullshit out for you. If not, as other's have suggested, consider the oil fields. It is VERY hard work, but pays well and they will hire anyone willing to bust their ass. Or waiter/ bartender in a decent joint, you can actually do pretty well.

Good Luck OP, you got this.

^^^^^ THIS, OP, is entirely possible, and this would not be the first time this has happened, which is why it is IMPERATIVE that you exercise your rights under the FCRA and obtain copies of every single background check that has been run on you by these employers who denied you employment. You need to start gathering evidence, and these Consumer Reporting Agencies who are quite possibly misreporting other peoples' info as yours could be sued in Class Action style.

The major problem with this is that even though Class Action suits can cost these types of companies millions of dollars, you as the lead plaintiff will likely not see a whole lot of that money, although your attorney - who may operate on a "contingency basis" with you - most definitely will.

If I was you, I would gather all the evidence I can, and then threaten the FCRA violators with a Class Action lawsuit (use that threat as leverage), but tell them that you would be willing to settle out of court, without an attorney involved on your part, if they act to settle quickly. I have done this with great success myself, and the big plus was that I didn't have to deal with paying an attorney, sharing my settlement money with them, and wrapped the whole thing up in less than two weeks (as opposed to the two-to-four years a Class Action suit could take, at minimum, only to see you win a small five figure sum).

you owe money thats why

that pretty much sucks.

really.

This retard society is going to have to make work places for criminals only...........if they are going to make things follow people around for life.

A lot of places will hire you, just get a pair of steel toed boots for all the constructions places and outfits that get street repair contracts, those traffic sign people make good money. Or, if its necessary to be inside, try 7/11, they take persons who's record is not exactly clean.