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  • I can’t see how a starter gun is going to cause a panic leading to crushing/trampling of masses, or anything remotely close to those kinds of consequences.

    During daytime hours it’s usually pretty legal to make all kinds of sounds.

    If someone wants to nitpick the “gun” here, just rig an internal combustion engine that backfires as loud as a gun, or literally put in a speaker / horn that can produce the same sound.

    There’s ways around all the little “but what about” in this scenario.


  • Saying “no eligible for rehire” is enough to poison your reference.

    HR departments are routinely told not to disclose that information by legal because it can result in a defamation lawsuit.

    it’s not illegal for a prospective employer to ask the employee or formal employer that question, sure. A former employer would be putting their neck on the line though, because anybody can call your employment verification line. Very, very often employment verification is outsourced to eliminate any possibility of this liability.

    If the policy is to never provide that information and you never provide it, you never have to go to court to prove that they are not re-hirable for a legitimate reason as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit. Background checks are typically not performed until an offer is on the table with a contingency for the former. Again, in massachusetts, the outcome of a background check must be legally provided to the one under scrutiny. If the thing that doesn’t check out is that employer’s statements, the evidence is right there. Lawyers drool over this shit.


  • If you do get fired, and your employer flags you as “not eligible for rehire” that’s a big chunk of your career you can’t reference anymore because its now a black mark.

    Legally the business cannot say anything whatsoever about job performance or any reason behind hiring in terms of employment verification, at least where I am in Massachusetts. Employment verification here can only say dates of employment, starting job title and ending job title. Nothing else. If they say more is a massive liability and absolutely anybody can call up asking for employment verification, there’s no vetting… so getting caught telling more information is very possible.

    Being banned from employment from one employer doesn’t usually do anything, and again, if you didn’t have a job to begin with and needed that foot in the door, and old small-midsize company that has zero real power, influence or clout beyond their domain will have zero impact on your job prospects. If you never get past offer phase it’s unlikely.

    If you’re in a highly specialized field where there’s only a handful of people who can do your job then yes, EVERYONE in that field probably knows just who you are! But you can’t fake it till you make it at that level. low level managers and early-mid career white collar roles? Yeah you can bullshit your way through a lot of those.



  • Sure those are all well and good ideas. My wife works in HR and she’s yet to work at a company that calls the registrars office. They do criminal background checks all over, but rarely do they go beyond that. We’re in mass, so we’re entitled to a copy of our background check performed by the business, if you’re in a similar situation i’d recommend checking it out.

    That being said, if you’re applying for a job you’re never gonna get an interview for (Director or Manager roles without an MBA or BS) then you have quite literally nothing but your time to lose.


  • What’s the consequences of not lying on your resume? you can’t get a good job.

    What’s the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.

    What’s the consequences of not getting caught? You get paid to do the job that didn’t require the degree to begin iwth.

    The consequences are the same whether or not you do it. The benefits greatly outweigh the risks.








  • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAmerica is fucked
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    Sure and Santiago is a horrible example. I was just there a few months ago. It feels the most like boston of anywhere else in latin america. When I was in el salvador I thought I was gonna get robbed at the airport, where they pat you down at each departure gate.

    The wages are livable, the neighborhoods are safe(mostly), the housing is affordable, the food is terrible (compared to lima anyway.) I couldn’t get enough of the mountains.

    In lima I was getting cased by pickpockets, in santiago I didn’t ever feel that way. Lima’s traffic is on another level. Santiago’s rush hour is much more organized and you have way more street lights and better drivers. In lima as a pedestrian you have to RUN so they don’t hit you. In santiago they stop and let you cross - something nearly unheard of in a lot of other latin american nations.


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    Education quality is a tip of the iceberg.

    Talk to someone who went to a public school in say the dominican republic. I’ve heard stories of years of kids just waiting around with next to no actual teaching involved from someone who was physically there in their childhood. If you don’t go to a private school odds are you aren’t going to get any real education or structure beyond what you pick up at home… and odds are your parents were in the same boat.

    The US education system has been nothing like that, it is going to get like that in the south though. In remote low population areas it’s very possible to get bad - and clearly some teenage pregnancies disrupt things in the US, but in the DR it’s a lot worse.






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