Jgregoire108 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Wow, its been a long time since I have been on these forums.. Anyway, Today makes it about a week since I last heard back from HR on my background checks (criminal, credit, and drug screen) and im starting to get anxious. I was given a start date of Feb. 16th, and the last email I had received from HR was a customary email letting me know that they had started the background checks, back on Feb. 4th, and that they would be in contact with me. The day before that on Feb. 3rd, I had replied to them with my signed offer letter, as well as the signed documents for the background checks. From what I understand, these are to be the usual standard criminal / credit / drug screen. Since then, there has been no other contact. Some history: The company I am hoping to start with is the company that I worked at previously. I was hired as an Tier 2 Computer Support Technician (contract thru staffing agency) back in July of 2011. Since then, I had been promoted to a Lead Technician in August 2012, and then in December 2012, I was extremely lucky to be promoted into Software Development until they closed my contract at the end of January 2015. During this entire time, I was still on contract with the staffing agency, though each promotion came with increased hourly pay. The Software Development position, I consider very fortunate, as I do not have a BS degree (still need about 2 years worth of college credit to finish) and by chance, it landed in my lap. Long story short, I was sent to a client's site when I was still a Support tech and during travel I ended up sitting next to the Lead Developer / Project Manager. During small talk he found out that my hobby and future career goals were in programming, etc. Didnt think anything about it at the time, as it was small talk, but later on, I found out that talk was the reason he had considered me for the software development position. Anyway, due to one of our major clients cancelling a major project, word came down from the top that they needed to release all contract employees by the end of Jan. 2015. Before that, my boss, the lead developer, had been trying to get me hired on full time for many months, though unfortunately no open spots prevented him. But, due to his recommendation, as well as his boss's recommendation, and due to the high praise they had for me for when I was on his team, during my last week, they secured me an interview into another software development team (completely separate departments) that had several open positions. Some other history: Back in 2003 I made a stupid decision and decided to steal several computer equipment. In 2005 I was arrested for it, and due to the value of the equipment, I was charged with Felony Theft. Since I was a first time offender, I was placed on deferred adjudication in May of 2006 for 4 years. In May of 2010, I had successfully completed it, and the case was dismissed (no conviction), but the arrest and the disposition of the case still remains in public records. For a long time, I would get denied jobs and apartment rentals due to this popping up, up until around 2011, when I got hired for the current company as a contractor. At the time, I had told the staffing agency about my background, but he still recommended me to the company and I was thus hired. A background check was conducted even then, and I didnt know until much later that when he ran it, nothing negative came back. When I moved from my parents home to an apartment, they did a background check on me, and apparently they didn't find anything negative either. Now: At this moment, im still worried that something may come up in the background checks. During this past week, I pulled my own public criminal records from the county, and the arrest / deferred is still on there from 2005 / 2006. I get conflicting information from several people stating that most BGs only go back 7 years and some go forever. As well, HR mentioned too that while they wont look at my credit score, they do look at collections / bankrupties / etc. and I have several medical bills in collections as well as a civil judgement from 2003 in my credit report. I also ran my own credit report though, and only the medical collections are showing. My recent credit is all in good standing though, with a paid off car loan, and 2 credit cards currently in good standing / no missed payments. One of them is at 92% limit, the other at 43% limit. The drug test im not worrying about, since I dont do drugs, though I do smoke an e-cig with nicotene. So what is everyone's thoughts? Should I prepare myself for them to rescind the offer? Im worried that its taking them so long to get back to me.. Link to comment
mhowe Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Yes....prepare for them to recind the offer. The offer is contingent on the credit and criminal clearance. Link to comment
Edmund Exley Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 You should be able to file a motion to have those charges removed from your record. That is usually part of the deal with deferred adjunction. I would go look into taking care of that whether you get the job or not. Link to comment
weathergirl Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Check your mail...if they rescind, they will most likely send you a letter. Also, do you live in the US? February 16th is a national holiday... President's Day...so it would be odd to give you that date as a start date...unless of course you don't live/work in the US. If no letter...you can always follow up with them too...via email or phone call. Link to comment
Jgregoire108 Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 Start date is Feb. 16th, not 26th =). And I have been checking my email and mail daily! Link to comment
mhowe Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Start date is Feb. 16th, not 26th =). And I have been checking my email and mail daily
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