You're fired...
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Think, bingo on the river wear :-) You'll figure it out...
Ahhhh. Gotcha. There's another CPist works there if my memory serves me well.
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So I just had to ask, what is it you did that demanded a polygraph? And do you know if the polygraph ever gets it right?
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elevated heart beat, sweaty palms, pupil dilation and so on
I mean every person innocent or not would be feeling all of the above if hooked up to the polygraph! Exception Hannibal Lecter.
Your correct that yes, everyone to some degree will have elevated heart rate etc when faced with a polygraph, but in most cases those doing the testing know this so the machines are calibrated to take it into account. However if you push yourself to be worried more, and really get yourself worked up about things, those measurements will be higher than what's accounted for, and so will throw the measurements being taken into the grey area where it's quite difficult for them to say yes or no, esp if those measurements are the same when your base reading is taken. The base reading, is the first few questions, eg: name, age, general stuff, which they use to set the "truth level" of the device, and also as part of the calibration for when they start asking q's where you may lie. as for the what did I do? Well, my father used to be a police officer, I didn't do anything, but as a prank one year, he faked getting me arrested by some of his officer friends. I learned a lot of tricks about things that law enforcement use, and on top of that, I also learned a number of similar tricks (and saw some first hand examples) years later when I served with the UK's armed forces.
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Ahhhh. Gotcha. There's another CPist works there if my memory serves me well.
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Possibly. I still see the odd one or two when I do UG talks around the area.
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Possibly. I still see the odd one or two when I do UG talks around the area.
You and I really need to get a Lidnug talk sorted. Once I'm finished the current stuff I'm writing for Pluralsight, we'll have to schedule a session.
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You and I really need to get a Lidnug talk sorted. Once I'm finished the current stuff I'm writing for Pluralsight, we'll have to schedule a session.
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Absolutely dude. I'm through at Leeds on Tuesday doing my Typescript session for the Hainton .NET UG, and in sept I'm up for Chris and his SQL-NE group through the town, doing a CI/CD SQL focused talk for them. You'll have to let me have a little preview of your PS stuff :-) I'm also working on some new stuff for them at the mo.
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Has anyone working IT ever got sacked? I have resigned, had contracts come to an end (after many many years) but never sacked. And I dont think I have ever worked with someone who was. HOw about you lot?
I worked at Nationwide Insurance in the US and was fired. I had a manager who hated me and tried to get me fired. I BCCed a reply to one of her nasty emails to a employee relations lawyer and HR was moving to fire me at her request. The keystroke loggers caught my email after the fact, so they retired her, then fired me. Nationwide Insurance and other large corporations have a habit of over hiring consultants, offering positions to the ones they like and getting rid of the ones they don't like. The process for Nationwide was a 3 year cycle.
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Has anyone working IT ever got sacked? I have resigned, had contracts come to an end (after many many years) but never sacked. And I dont think I have ever worked with someone who was. HOw about you lot?
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I got let go a few times. The last time, I was out of work for almost 8 months, and in that time I got diagnosed with ADHD. This made sense out of the job losses and the previous 45+ years.
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Has anyone working IT ever got sacked? I have resigned, had contracts come to an end (after many many years) but never sacked. And I dont think I have ever worked with someone who was. HOw about you lot?
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In the UK you can't request a criminal record check unless the role directly requires one - working with children or the vulnerable for example. Then you get them to fill out a form and you apply for a Criminal Records Bureau check which normally takes a couple of months and doesn't give you full details, just a "yes / no" on relevant convictions. In this case, it was before the CRB check system came into being, and there was no way for a company to legally check the records at all!
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OriginalGriff wrote:
In the UK you can't request a criminal record check unless the role directly requires one
No longer the case I'm afraid- since it was oursourced to private companies rather than the CRB, any Tom, Dick and indeed Harry can run a check. The other trick is to leverage the concept of an enforced subject and make the job offer conditional on agreeing to fill in the form requesting disclosure.....
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which normally takes a couple of months and doesn't give you full details, just a "yes / no" on relevant convictions.
Or a couple of days, depending on who you use
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doesn't give you full details, just a "yes / no" on relevant convictions.
Again, not quite - it will give details of any unspent convictions, or all convictions in the case of enhanced disclosures (think in terms of working with vulnerable people, kids etc). I personally think that it SHOULD be restricted in the way you outlined - but then companies would find ways around it - a wise man once told me "there's what's legal, and then there's what you can get away with" - for instance a "friend" was asked do you have any spent or unspent convictions (which you're not supposed to ask - that's the point of spent convictions!), and when he answered honestly (not realising that in that case you're permitted to "present yourself as someone without convictions", the company suddenly decided that the job for which he was applying didn't exist.....which is rather naughty.
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
