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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 121 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

no one is hiring someone solely based upon your experience of working at any of those locations ... Ever.
Nearly every HR (realistically any job that earns over 65k a year) have systems like TheWorkNumber, ADP, Credit Bureaus to get your employment records.
If you done fucked up, they can request tax records and I can guarantee you that all those businesses you listed very much have their tax records available from the IRS.
This idea worked like 10 years ago... Even shitty HR have figured this out by now.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

WTF that's way to much insights in data that shouldn't be collected in first place.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

And guess what! For $8 you can access all that data for anyone you want!

Fuck us plebs amirite?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When i got hired last which was 2 years ago (in the US, huge company) they outsourced the checks to a 3rd party and my god were they incompetent. They passed me with a caveat saying they couldn’t confirm my most previous job. The records they turned over to me after show their attempts: 3 phone calls to the main number listed on the company’s website. That’s it. The process dragged on for so long i suspected they were having issues because most everyone i had worked with had been laid off and the company barely existed with likes 15 employees down from 300. They wouldn’t take my offer to connect to the VP and just called the same number until they gave up. Its laughable.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean, no one is hiring me one way or the other, but with that method I can look at my CV and feel I accomplished something. So, that's good.

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[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 109 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Me: I was a regional manager of Toys R Us between 1995 and 2008.

Interviewer: It says here on your resume you were born in 1999, and you moved to Australia in 201x.

Me: ummmmm

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 35 points 5 months ago

Refer them to the documentary boss baby if your early employment history is ever brought into question

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"They made a lot of strange decisions before they shut down"

[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Toys R Us invested heavily in both time and inter-dimensional travel. As a result I've lived a thousand lives in service of the giraffe."

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 79 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

That’s why my CV looks so strong:

Director of Internal Audit; Enron Corp. (1998-2001)

Senior Vice President for Risk Management; Lehman Brothers (2002-2008)

Edit: for all the recruiters reaching out, I’m not interested. I’m currently Managing Director for Growth (Europe) at Tesla, and expecting to get a huge bonus after our Q4 2025 sales numbers are final.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Head of security, Wold Trade Centre, NY, 1995-2001.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Head of QC for O-Ring production, NASA, Jan 1983 - Oct 1986
Pipeline Integrity Officer, Exxon Valdez, Oct 1986 - March 1989
Chief of Security and Intelligence, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Mar 1989 - Apr 1995

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see from your resume that you're good at looking the other way while we make billions. You're hired.

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[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn't you also help found that FTX crypto exchange a few years ago too?

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just now realized: someone has the most cursed resume on LinkedIn. I'd expect something in line with this.

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

I see you left that short stint at WorldCom off your resume.

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[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 65 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I worked at a dot com and although I was fairly young at the time I was promoted quickly to management (we had several thousand employees at the time).

When it all came falling down and we were all looking at jobs at the sametime I was being asked by proespective employers "was John Smith really General Manager of customer service"?

The vast majority were customer service monkeys padding the fuck out of their resumes.

That said hate the game not the player. I always nodded and said yes.

Fuck em if they can't do their own verification work.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Only if you're fucking old.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 61 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"It says here you were a general manager at Radioshack?"

"Correct"

"They went bankrupt in 2015, which would make you.... 11, at the time?"

"I started young"

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

I was thinking this too, but they do ask for 10 years of experience on entry level positions so HR gets a taste of their own medicine here

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I don't really have much memory of this, but I apparently started using keyboards when I was two. I only know because of things my father told me and one personal memory.

Eventually I I joined a company which encouraged me to record my skills with my history. I was nineteen at the time. They certainly were aware of that.

I recorded in their system that I had been using keyboards for seventeen years. They didn't appreciate it. I think I might have taken their request too literally.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I was a manager at a RadioShack. And it was a franchise, so it’s even less verifiable (I think). Not a regional manager though. Oh, I mean, I was a district manager.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Frys electronics is a good bet too they're a more recent shutdown that might be more relevant than a blockbuster or toys r us

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah Frys folk were a super weird set though so that might not work as you think

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The Social Security Administration certainly can.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

RadioShack is still around. Not sure how good it is.

Interestingly, it started as a mail order business in the 1920s, switched to retail stores in the 1960s, and then in 2017 it switched back to an online only / mail delivery business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack

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[–] ilost7489@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Toys R us s still exists though

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

The brand exists, but it's not the same company.

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I went to a Radio Shack a few years back. They still exist as well

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I ran Circuit City. All of them.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

My father actually ran a few when I was little years later we found a box of promotion razor blades in the garage with the circuit city logo on them, along with an apropos tagline “like nowhere else.”

[–] mira_hime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 months ago

Didn't expect to be jump scared by the abandoned Staten Island shoprite that was used as a set for the fallout TV show on here

[–] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Was Radio Shack as cool as Tandy stores in Europe?

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is a Tandy store?

[–] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It was heaven for teenage nerds. Transistors resistirs wires soldering irons weeeeh and all in a paper catalogue to read for hours

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like Radio Shack in the before times, that is until their primary focus became cell phones and dvd players.

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[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure they must be related, considering yes radio shack sold that stuff as well, and they sold Tandy computers

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

RadioShack is a subsidiary of Tandy. It was not created by Tandy, but bought in the 60s.

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[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is a great idea till the interviewer hits you with the "oh cool, my freind Jhonny was also a regional manager there, where were you the RM?"

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

There were no regional managers named Jhonny. Your friend is a liar and you should cut them out of your life.

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[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago

Yes I was most important manager at Circuit City which closed because the covid and I haven't worked since. Job please.

[–] jim@lemmus.org 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Or Sears

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[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You cant prove i didnt own all of em: think the smrartest

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Uhhhhh, that just means you're a terrible businessman, who ran a long standing major chain into the ground.

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