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  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1: no one is hiring someone solely based upon your experience of working at any of those locations … Ever.

    1. Nearly every HR (realistically any job that earns offer 65k a year) have systems like TheWorkNumber, ADP, Credit Bureaus to get your employment records.

    2. 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.

    3. This idea worked like 10 years ago… Even shitty HR have figured this out by now.

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    • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

        Fuck us plebs amirite?

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When i got hired last which was 2 years ago they outsourced the checks to a3rd 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 number listed in the companies 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. It was a joke

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    • kossa@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • mr_noxx@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re assuming that the HR department is diligent and willing to expend the energy to track you, and the other three hundred candidates’ information down for this single role. In my experience, this is a wild assumption.

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      • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would imagine it’s nowadays at the point where employment verification is automatically fired off to some vetting agency automatically during the process where software does all the cross referencing and anomalies would be caught and reported.

        I don’t think they have to go all private investigator to get basic employment verification from the actual employers anymore.

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I disagree. Countless companies won’t check this. Sure, Google or Amazon will… But you underestimate the collecruve incompetence of businesses in the US.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, but what if you live in a non English speaking country?

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  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “They made a lot of strange decisions before they shut down”

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      • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “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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    • slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did you ever see Doogie Howser, M.D.? I’m like that, except for middle management, and a lot younger. Got my MBA when I was still living in my parents.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly, and you wonder why the failed… hiring a 18yo as a regional manger.

      no wait, that doesn’t look good…

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        PLEASE

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    • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was the lead engineer behind the graphite tips rods at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and I helped Boeing design MCAS for the 737 max

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ohh it’d be hilarious to try and find cursed resumes.

        However that would mean signing up for LinkedIn and I’d rather repeatedly hit myself on the head with a hammer. Would lose about the same amount of brain cells

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    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Weren’t you also the Lead Safety Engineer at OceanGate for a while?

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      • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, that was at Boeing.

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  • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I always nodded and said yes.

      inadvertently kickstarts Elizabeth Holmes promotion to CEO a job or two later :p j/k

      btw curious what the proper verification work is. Thought calls were standard. Maybe pulling tax records if possible?

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not an HR professional, by the grace of Jesus, but I believe the proper verification work is stop looking at all my private shit and pay me already.

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  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “So tell me, is it a coincidence that all the companies you worked for went bankrupt?”

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    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “I tried to save them but… they didn’t listen”

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      • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As someone who was a “store manager” at a franchise with only 2 employees (including myself). I left in 2012 because even in my early 20s I could see the direction things were going because of corporate mismanagement.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s why you have to keep it modest at ‘regional manager’, significant enough to be useful looking, insignificant enough so you can’t possibly be to blame for the downfall of the company.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well I read the art of the deal, I’m as baffled as you.

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only if you're fucking old.

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    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “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”

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      • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Soulg@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lmao you’ll change your mind so hard I’m just a few more years

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      • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In a few more years, it'll be "only if you're fucking dead".

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    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Use a newer company, say you worked at Theranos or FTX.

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    • JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I resemble that comment!

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  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was a manager at a RadioShack. And it was a franchise, so it’s even less verifiable (I think).

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    • Octagon9561@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      RadioShack still has open franchises

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Social Security Administration certainly can.

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    • rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But what employer is going to deal with verifying that

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      • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Used to be as easy as logging in and typing in the SSN. But that was several years ago, so idk about now.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay, fine, but besides them…

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack

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    • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Toys R Us too! In Canada at least

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s still a handful of franchises which retained the naming rights post-bankruptcy too!

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  • ilost7489@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Toys R us s still exists though, just in Canada instead of the States too

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I ran Circuit City. All of them.

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  • mira_hime@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?”

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  • SillyDude@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • jim@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or Sears

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  • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does toys r us not exist anymore?

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2424 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10306

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  • Octagon9561@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Went shopping at Toys R Us and Sears back in December 2025/January 2026 respectively

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Really a great pro life tip, this one

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  • OmegaPerseidTwitch@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a toys r us in Tennessee again.

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