'Jaynestown'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
How do they even find out stuff about my character, reputation, etc. What is "mode of living"?
In a serious background check, like for the CIA or whatever, they interview people who know you. For a regular job, they probably just check you have the degrees you claim and maybe a credit check.
In a serious background check, like for the CIA or whatever, they interview people who know you.
I saw one of those interviews happening in a Dunkin Donuts once.
We once had the FBI descend to do a background on a former coworker. Basically everyone freaked out (complicated by only supposed to confirm dates of employment per HR, but fed agency cooperation...) Former coworker got the job in FBI IT.
Supposably, my first smartphone arrives Thursday. Bets on whether I'll ignore it until the weekend... have to enter in all contacts manually, set up apps & passwords (oh fuck, what's my pwd here?) and all that...
Some of my brother's friends and teachers, etc., were interviewed when he was getting Navy security clearances. Very weird feeling.
When our old neighbor back in FL was getting her law license back Mom and some neighbors were interviewed. She didn't get her license back.
Edited to add she lost it for breaking into her ex husbands house and stealing and trashing the place and I think stalking. She was erratic and that came through in the interviews
"mode of living"
I'm thinking they mean things along the lines of "apartment, townhouse, suburban house, stately Wayne Manor...."
"This says he lives in Stately Wayne Manor."
"Huh, Mr. Wayne didn't strike me as the kind to sublet to some guy looking for a security job."
I've told the tale of getting to dash my entitled princess former neighbor's hopes of a security clearance during an FBI interview, haven't I? Best part was I didn't even say anything about personal conflict with her, relating the one thing that actually had bearing on security issues made the interviewing agent say something to the effect of "Oh, that's not good..."
Oh, I did have a cop show up at my front door to ask what kind of neighbor a potential cop was. I said, "Is it good that he's never done anything to attract my attention? Though they do like to work on their cars on the weekends."
I've done a lot of security clearance interviews given I lived in DC and went to the college I did...Navy, CIA, FBI...