As someone who had a juvenile record I can confirm that companies do background checks. The felony misdemeanor as a minor still followed me for 7 years into adulthood.
As a consequence I hold my breath about job background checks to this day. Realize that background checks aren't done until they've offered you the job. In Seattle Tech, and thus covered under WA State laws, I've always had criminal record, job history, sometimes credit, but very rarely education. Never had a drug test.
Expect Federal background checks, and then they check in the cities, county level, and state based on the prior addresses you supplied.
Most job history in the US is tracked through Lexis Nexis or Equifax (owner of The Work Number). Education history through the Education Student Clearinghouse.
The whole process is automated. It's software, looking for records that contain the word "felony", deciding your future. Anybody working there is making very little money and they have no power nor oversight.
> It's called mirroring. People often do it unconsciously when the connect with others.
I wanted to respond to both.
It's not a stretch to argue that in certain cases the person is mirroring because they're insecure. Empathy as a defense mechanism?
I mention it because back in college there were a few times where I witnessed a person mimicking an exchange student's accent almost immediately, and later claiming this always happened to them. Both were painfully insecure.
I think it's more likely that a lot of people just happen to be insecure, without any causal relation to mirroring.
Sharing inflection, accent, and mannerisms yields a wealth of context that aids both the listener and the speaker in acquiring detailed insight about one another's culture, language, and meaning.
I suspect that people who don't mirror might sadly be unaware of these subtle but rich details, even in their own communication.
I live in Mexico and have for the last several years. I moved here not knowing any Spanish. I now speak at a B1 almost B2 level.
Every extranjero (foreigner) I know learned Spanish differently.
What they all have in common though is they all read books, starting at the Spanish equivalent of the US "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", magazines, the newspapers.
Additionally, they all like to talk to people and they're never embarrassed by their errors, thus they practice listing to and talking in this new language all the time. You have to lean into practicing with other people and doing it in public.
Book learning for the grammar and vocab, and writing all of it out on paper. Typing notes out on Duolingo or your computer doesn't work.
For me I needed a Spanish teacher, for me it's a lady that teaches English in a local grade school.
A felony record, in the context of passing a tech background check, is the following:
Does the word 'felony' appear on your record? It's all just string matching.
Felony misdemeanor? I'm a felon.
Felony misdemeanor as a juvenile? I'm a felon.
Felony for Adult Bad Things? Not me, but maybe someone else.
Either way, you're done for 7 years. I still wait to tell friends and family until after the background check passes... 15 years later.
Most background checks (basically all) though are local to the states you list, so if you say you've only ever lived in Texas, but your conviction was in Oregon, I think you'd still pass as long as it wasn't a federal level conviction. I know this because I've scrutinized every single background check I've ever had.
The experience will jade you and will leave a permanent bad taste in your mouth. Don't forget they need software developers in Latin America and Europe.
Long time ago my employer at the time had this in-house deployment system written by a guy that worked there. It worked well and we used it well after he had moved on. He left suddenly and started a company based on the idea. Employer went to sue him and discovered the ‘all your code belongs to us’ form was missing from his permanent file so they didn’t pursue it. That company is called Chef.
For myself at least vertical tabs can be easily grouped to visually show task or subject. If I’m doing ticket work for example,each ticket gets a main tab with their related child tabs indented underneath. I’ve even written a small web app that creates custom tab titles which I use for organizing tabs.
It's easy to debate banning alcohol in a remote city most have only heard of, it's quite another to have spent a week there as a foreigner, gone for walks, saw the renal clinics, the doormen keeping Aborigines out of the bars, and witnessed drunk Aboriginal men and women sitting in the park midday and how they acted. I'm not here to sensationalize this issue, but it is incredibly ugly what alcohol has done to these people's lives. The place is fucked up.
The local white people seemed completely fed up with the situation. I appreciated at the time that it's hard to empathize with a group of people when you consistently see them at their worst and your stuff keeps going missing and yet there was also clear racism and more than a few white people made their living maintaining government funded facilities for the various Aboriginal communities.
In the present a total ban of alcohol is probably warranted. Maybe you disagree, and I encourage everyone to travel and form their own opinion.
As a consequence I hold my breath about job background checks to this day. Realize that background checks aren't done until they've offered you the job. In Seattle Tech, and thus covered under WA State laws, I've always had criminal record, job history, sometimes credit, but very rarely education. Never had a drug test.
Expect Federal background checks, and then they check in the cities, county level, and state based on the prior addresses you supplied.
Most job history in the US is tracked through Lexis Nexis or Equifax (owner of The Work Number). Education history through the Education Student Clearinghouse.
The whole process is automated. It's software, looking for records that contain the word "felony", deciding your future. Anybody working there is making very little money and they have no power nor oversight.
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