Danger in Employers' Files

[Clodfobble]

Back in college I was looking for a nights-and-weekends job and one of the places I applied was at a Gateway computer store. I consented to a background check on the application. After I was called in for an interview, I decided the interviewer was a jerk and the job sounded terrible and I really didn't want to work there after all. A few days later I got a call from the background check company, saying they were having a hard time tracking down a previous boss (who had since quit working for the company we had worked together at), and they needed more detailed information on her. I told them don't worry about it, I wasn't going to take the job anyway. They kept insisting, until I said very clearly, "No. I want you to stop the background check on me; I am not going to work for this employer so I do not need a background check completed."

The next day they called again, a different person from the same company. And another two times after that, with increasing yelling from me, before they finally gave up.