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Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

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Post by aiyodev » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 9:44 PM UTC

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #5

After I left high school I signed up with a temp agency, filled out all the paperwork, never heard anything. Twelve years later, I received a phone call. I explained I had been employed full time for over a decade. They said that if I refused the assignment I might not be eligible for future opportunities. I told them I was ok with that. ;) Along the same vein, a few years ago I had an employer that wanted proof I gr…

There’s a software company in Seattle that won’t let you fill out their online application without entering your high school GPA. I suspect they do this to discriminate against older applicants.

Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

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Post by perl4ever » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 10:17 PM UTC

knolax wrote: post #10

lolpython wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My father had the same experience recently, with needing to prove he went to high school. He has an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree in creative writing, but he needed to have his old high school print out his diploma. In order for him to get a medical caretaker job.

Was this an automated system he was dealing with? I can't imagine the type of person who would with a straight face demand a high school diploma after seeing a graduate degree.

Well, if you don't have any advanced degree, it's still pretty obnoxious to insist on documentation a few decades on, when maybe the high school or school district doesn't even exist any more. More painful and humiliating when a high school diploma is all you've got and you've been working for like 30+ years. I know a hospital that did this and remember an applicant loudly complaining.

Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

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Post by zxcvbn4038 » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 1:43 AM UTC

aiyodev wrote: post #11

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #5

After I left high school I signed up with a temp agency, filled out all the paperwork, never heard anything. Twelve years later, I received a phone call. I explained I had been employed full time for over a decade. They said that if I refused the assignment I might not be eligible for future opportunities. I told them I was ok with that. ;) Along the same vein, a few years ago I had an employer that wanted proof I gr…

There’s a software company in Seattle that won’t let you fill out their online application without entering your high school GPA. I suspect they do this to discriminate against older applicants.

Another likely explanation is the online application was done by an intern fresh out of college and GPA is the only metric they had ever known. Like not being able to enter a birth date before 1970 (time_t), or not allowing more then one John Smith to register an account.

Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

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Post by quickthrower2 » Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 5:24 AM UTC

Now how do you get your tax back from the IRS?

Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

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Post by the_resistence » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:04 AM UTC

20 years ago I used to work for a private investment fund which had an arrangement with a foreign custodian bank. Although the fund closed 2 years later, I still get monthly statements with zero balance even after we begged them to stop sending.

Re: Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

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Post by lolpython » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

knolax wrote: post #10

lolpython wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My father had the same experience recently, with needing to prove he went to high school. He has an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree in creative writing, but he needed to have his old high school print out his diploma. In order for him to get a medical caretaker job.

Was this an automated system he was dealing with? I can't imagine the type of person who would with a straight face demand a high school diploma after seeing a graduate degree.

A human insisted to his face that he provide a high school degree. As part of the hiring process. It must have been a hard requirement. Yeah, pretty strange. My Dad eventually got a copy of his diploma from the 70s and got the job.