Background Checks

A large percentage of companies now use background checks to determine your "eligibility" to work there. These often include credit reports as well. A friend of mine recently took a position for two whole days before coming into work on the third day and being "escorted" out of the building for failing the background check (oddly they didn't do the background check until AFTER he started). His offense? A 35$ bounced check in 2001 (long since paid). It didn't matter that he had worked for a large credit card processing company dealing with highly sensitive data for the last 10 years. To these clowns he was a criminal. Now he has to start the whole f'ing process all over again, I feel for him.