Just don't have a gap. Claim you worked for Toys R Us, Twitter, Circuit City, or anywhere else that is either bankrupt or has no actual PR department for an employer to call.I worked in another dimension
"I didn't have a job"I may as well've said that. They asked "What were you doing during this period" and I answered "looking for a job."
Just don't have a gap. Claim you worked for Toys R Us, Twitter, Circuit City, or anywhere else that is either bankrupt or has no actual PR department for an employer to call.
Why should that even matter to an employer.In case you were in jail, a mental hospital, house arrest or whatever, and didn't disclose it.
It's none of their fucking business.
In case you were in jail, a mental hospital, house arrest or whatever, and didn't disclose it.
Or something like, "I was suing my former employer so I was in court everyday. Don't worry, won't be a problem because I bankrupted them."
In case you were in jail, a mental hospital, house arrest or whatever, and didn't disclose it.
Ban the box, ban discrimination and stigma against mental illness, ban the box. Solved.
None of those are my employer's fucking business.
To be fair, depending what you were in jail for, it's absolutely an employer's business. If you were in jail for child pornography, for example, a day care or summer camp would probably like to know that info.I work in schools. You have to pass a particularly thorough background check to get those jobs. I think they're done annually too.
I work in schools. You have to pass a particularly thorough background check to get those jobs. I think they're done annually too.
To be fair, depending what you were in jail for, it's absolutely an employer's business. If you were in jail for child pornography, for example, a day care or summer camp would probably like to know that info.
That's what background checks are for.
I mean, it's a pretty horrid check if it consists of "hey, before we hire you, you have to tell us if you've been in jail for child pornography. And promise not to lie, because we're going to take your word."
To be fair, depending what you were in jail for, it's absolutely an employer's business. If you were in jail for child pornography, for example, a day care or summer camp would probably like to know that info.
Thus, if an applicant's application seems suspect, they ask questions.
I think that's covered by the legal requirement to disclose your status on the various offender registries? Aren't you required to tell your neighbors or anyone who might employ you around kids about your offense?Ok, theyll ban asking for it. But your criminal record is public information and they can still look it up. Outside of that, it is a government record that can be provided via a FOIA request.
That's baked into the sentence for that crime and makes it a bad example.
By and large, an employer should not have a right to ask you that on an application for employment. That's what "ban the box" is for. It's there to prevent outright discrimination against felons who have already served their sentence from being punished again.
But the examples of jail or house arrest or mental illness? Those... aren't of the scale and heinousness of what gets you put on an offender registry. It's not an applicable comparison.
Also, there's a difference between banning the box and banning background checks.
But the "convicted of a felony" box isn't "ask questions," at all. It's a "circular file" flag for HR or the software, and is discrimination.
Can you explain the gap in your employee history?
Ban the box, ban discrimination and stigma against mental illness, ban the box. Solved.
None of those are my employer's fucking business.