09/28 - Folic Acid Friday!

[TSolo315]

How likely is it that places check if you really have a GED/Diploma.

Asking for a friend.

If they run a standard background check it will come up

 

[Devil_Dawg]

How likely is it that places check if you really have a GED/Diploma.

Asking for a friend.

just a heads up, usually it's a firing offense to lie on a job application

 

[lolkatB]

I had an entertaining discussion with a guy interviewing me by phone when I had been here about 3 months. "So you have a degree but never graduated high school? How can that be possible? " I'd just spent 5 minutes explaining the difference between the UK and USA qualifications . Sigh sigh. Now if I fill something in, I mentally see the words (or equivalent) next to any question about that.

 

[Jaded]

If they run a standard background check it will come up

huh, good to know.

 

[C to the J]

just a heads up, usually it's a firing offense to lie on a job application

That's discriminatory to pathological liars.

 

[Jerami]

huh, good to know.

Why not tell your friend to just go get their GED, if their current stuff doesn't pan out? When I took it, 26 years ago, it took about 3 hours, over 2 days. It cost $35 and when I went back for the second day, they pulled me aside and said, "We've never really had this happen before but, we've graded the first half of your test. Even if you don't take today's portion, you'd still have a passing score." I did it anyway. I just like tests.

Anyway tl:dr It's quick, easy and cheap.

 

[GTR]

just do like i have done on job interviews, wear some hot shorts and a half top
and when they ask you about your background just say "Is that, really necessary?"
then wink and run your fingers through your hair

 

[splishsplash]

How likely is it that places check if you really have a GED/Diploma.

Asking for a friend.

There is zero chance unless it is an academic position. I.e. tutor, college, another HS, etc.

 

[Jerami]

just do like i have done on job interviews, wear some hot shorts and a half top
and when they ask you about your background just say "Is that, really necessary?"
then wink and run your fingers through your hair

Or their hair.

 

[Theta Carinae]

just a heads up, usually it's a firing offense to lie on a job application

Not only this, but usually that kind of thing gets around, particularly if you live in a small community. So not only do you risk losing your job if you lie on a job application but you're making it that much harder to get another.

Also I feel like it's considered fraud but I could be remembering that wrong.

 

[mboone73]

I didn’t tell anyone on my recent interviews that I had to leave my last job because they weren’t paying rent on our office space. I’m not even sure I believe that.

 

[GTR]

Or their hair.

even better, you will get a raise right off the bat

 

[Theta Carinae]

There is zero chance unless it is an academic position. I.e. tutor, college, another HS, etc.

With respect, you're drastically underestimating just how petty the people hiring for the sort of job where high school graduation status is an issue can be. I'd say it depends pretty drastically on the company, the area and the mood the person in charge of hiring is in that day. Might not be risky, but it also really could be.

 

[splishsplash]

That's a Red Squirrel. They are smaller and more aggressive than your average Fox or Black/Gray Squirrel. They'll kill those others and take their nest.

Quite bold, even bothersome if you bowhunt and stuff. If you set your blind up you have to be aware if a red squirrel is there because they will aggressively harass you and deer watch for them making a fuss, just like they do with Bluejays.

Sometimes you set up your blind and then a Red Squirrel moves in after you do. Now you go out opening day and you have a Schizophrenic Hobo yelling at you as you cringe and try to ignore him.

There is really only one solution, you can kill the squirrel (usually still in season) or abandon your blind. The meat is also terrible and just as nasty as their temperment.

This one has decided it doesn't like you.

 

[splishsplash]

With respect, you're drastically underestimating just how petty the people hiring for the sort of job where high school graduation status is an issue can be. I'd say it depends pretty drastically on the company, the area and the mood the person in charge of hiring is in that day. Might not be risky, but it also really could be.

Maybe.

With unemployment at decades lows, I would consider it a non-risk. How intelligent does the Friend come off? Have they done anything like, written a book? Are they literate? Are they nodding off from slamming a G of dope? Are they on day 12 of a meth binge?

No?

They won't check.

They only check that to find a way to DQ you in a State where they need a reason.

If you have a pulse, disregard this selection and lie.

Source: Done some hiring of entry-level positions.

 

[splishsplash]

huh, good to know.

You live in Ala-bam so my advice could be terrible.
I live in a State where they have to have a reason to discriminate between Grads and non-Grads.

 

[Jaded]

Why not tell your friend to just go get their GED, if their current stuff doesn't pan out? When I took it, 26 years ago, it took about 3 hours, over 2 days. It cost $35 and when I went back for the second day, they pulled me aside and said, "We've never really had this happen before but, we've graded the first half of your test. Even if you don't take today's portion, you'd still have a passing score." I did it anyway. I just like tests.

Anyway tl:dr It's quick, easy and cheap.

I'm practicing first. I just don't know what to practice.

edit something something it's not me.

 

[Theta Carinae]

Maybe.

With unemployment at decades lows, I would consider it a non-risk. How intelligent does the Friend come off? Have they done anything like, written a book? Are they literate? Are they nodding off from slamming a G of dope? Are they on day 12 of a meth binge?

No?

They won't check.

They only check that to find a way to DQ you in a State where they need a reason.

If you have a pulse, disregard this selection and lie.

Source: Done some hiring of entry-level positions.

Congratulations on not being an asshole. I wish everyone who hired for entry-level positions was like you (no sarcasm here, being serious) but I have heard the people who hired for more than one of my previous jobs talk about applicants, and they were pretty spectacularly not nice about the ones that didn't meet their standards for whatever reason.

 

[cb456]

Holy crap that's terrifying.

Where do these squirrels even come from that are so bold? Where I live squirrels bolt away if you come within 20 feet of them.

cocaine is a powerful drug.

 

[cb456]

How likely is it that places check if you really have a GED/Diploma.

Asking for a friend.

next to 0 chance probably.