Aims, PMM is right. When our company does a new hire background check now, it includes a credit report (which I realllly don't like, but I don't get to make the rules).
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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DawnK - Feb 17, 2006 1:50:31 pm PST #9784 of 10001
giraffe mode
beth b - Feb 17, 2006 1:50:34 pm PST #9785 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
It is amazing what they don't tell you . and honestly, if you had gotten bill, you would have done something about it. crazy
Atropa - Feb 17, 2006 2:10:38 pm PST #9786 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Credit reports are being used against people for things where it shouldn't matter, like applying for jobs and stuff.
Really?
worry worry worry
But listen to Plei, Aimée, and find out what resources can help you with this.
-t - Feb 17, 2006 2:11:49 pm PST #9787 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, Aimee, that's awful and horrible and wrong. I've been blindsided by debt (though I could understand why I didn't know about ours, I don't get why no one bothered to, oh I don't know, send you a bill) and it's just full of badness.
Plei is wise.
DawnK - Feb 17, 2006 2:14:40 pm PST #9788 of 10001
giraffe mode
Really?
My company does, but I've never heard of them not hiring someone a job just because of a bad credit rating, but they do look at it.
-t - Feb 17, 2006 2:23:01 pm PST #9789 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm pretty sure that banks have not given me jobs because of my credit rating. The justification is that someone with a bad credit rating is more of a theft risk.
P.M. Marc - Feb 17, 2006 2:24:21 pm PST #9790 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Jilli, I wouldn't worry about it. You don't have bad credit, just a lack of anything much at all.
Aims - Feb 17, 2006 2:30:07 pm PST #9791 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Well, I just paid the $20 and the woman I spoke to said if I sent a letter, they might remove the negative credit item.
Jeebus.
-t - Feb 17, 2006 2:40:32 pm PST #9792 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My SiL advocates calling the creditor and telling them you'll only pay if they remove the black mark. That might work with the $1600 if you can work out some sort of installment plan. Maybe.
-t - Feb 17, 2006 2:42:31 pm PST #9793 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And I just remembered the time my sister was getting calls from collection agencies over $1.85. $20 almost as silly. Though they apparently saved on collection costs by not mailing a bill.
I shake my head sorrowfully at them.