• mastertigurius@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      In many cases, you pretty much didn’t exist before you stepped through the doors at your new company. People in all departments are too overloaded with work to take their time properly vetting every person joining the circus

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        Most companies use background check services nowadays. Sure, you could try to just invent a new persona, but HR will flag you when your name, SSN, DOB, etc come back as bogus.

        There are even background check companies that specialize in corporate background checks. They’ll try to estimate or find things like how much you made at your previous/current job, so the company you’re applying for knows what they can offer you without it seeming like a lowball. If a company can spend $100 on a background check and save $10k per year on an employee salary, that’s an easy financial decision for the company.

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      16 hours ago

      And who is going to know? If you are stupid enough to release the code to your private account, then you might have difficulties to find a new job. Other than that, except when you were in a niche, no one will ever know it was you and the company is not allowed to tell others.

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          Well, it depends on where you live I guess, not everything happening in the US is automatically true for the rest of the world. In the US, you as an individual are of no value and your rights get kicked in the balls constantly.

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            I am not in the US and I can tell you now, this would land you in jail and go on your record in virtually any developed country.

            This is a dumb and illegal tantrum by a fool.

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              I’ve got to laugh at someone from auzzie.zone needing to tell someone they’re not in the US.

              There really are some spectacular morons on here.

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                If you didn’t guess I work in cyber security. I’ve gathered the evidence that sends idiots like these to jail.

                Go ahead and whinge all you want. Their actions are illegal.

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        no one will ever know it was you and the company is not allowed to tell others.

        That’s absolutely not true. The generally accepted policy is to only confirm dates of employment, conduct, and if they would rehire. The can share anything that isn’t a lie.

        Additionally, if you commit sabotage you can have charges pressed against you. Serious ones with possible prison time. That would show up with even a rudimentary record search.

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          I guess it depends on where you live. I could imagine that in the US, you as an individual get way less protection than corporations. Where I live, spreading around that you are a criminal, would be itself a criminal offense, unless you are a person of public interest.

          Criminal records have to be provided voluntarily and may not be asked for, if not strictly necessary.

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          9 hours ago

          Where Iive, you have to provide those voluntarily and it is only allowed to ask for it, when you work with sensitive data or in sensitive environments.

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      In that industry…

      Software as a career is dying anyway and the welding union I’m going to apprentice won’t understand, much less care about any of this