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The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

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Re: The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

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Post by eru »

ventana wrote: post #5

When you apply for a software job in the US and go through a background check, most of your former employments are verified through The Work Number. As an employee, I'm not aware of a way to opt out of this data collection, and I assume if there is a way, it will surely make the future background check harder. Now that they allow to look at your personal report, I went ahead, registered and requested a copy. This is…

Interesting, it looks like you can only get your own data, if you have an American postal address. So if you moved abroad (or never lived there), you can not get your data, even if they have it.

Re: The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

#22

Post by squigz »

rustcleaner wrote: post #16
sschueller wrote: post #8

I guess you don't need to be an authoritarian country. Just capitalist with no regulation...

Big banks growing up around a central bank is not capitalism, it's financialism. Mandate that any fresh new currency be apportioned and distributed to only living citizens, and a capitalism becomes possible again. As it stands now it's the money printers, and those adjacent, who hold the power. Giving everyone fresh currency, and taxing those of significant wealth to sop up inflation (corporations and individuals), i…

> Mandate that any fresh new currency be apportioned and distributed to only living citizens

> Giving everyone fresh currency, and taxing those of significant wealth to sop up inflation (corporations and individuals), is how business entities get forced into serving the people again.

This doesn't really sound like capitalism, mate.

Re: The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

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Post by eru »

sschueller wrote: post #8

I guess you don't need to be an authoritarian country. Just capitalist with no regulation...

> Just capitalist with no regulation...

In what kind of anarcho-capitalist utopia do you live? Have you seen how many regulations they have over in the US? The Dodd-Frank act alone was 2,300 pages. And that's hardly the only rule they have on the books.

You can complain that the regulations are bad, sure. But 'no regulation' is a stretch.

Re: The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

#24

Post by eru »

squigz wrote: post #22
rustcleaner wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Big banks growing up around a central bank is not capitalism, it's financialism. Mandate that any fresh new currency be apportioned and distributed to only living citizens, and a capitalism becomes possible again. As it stands now it's the money printers, and those adjacent, who hold the power. Giving everyone fresh currency, and taxing those of significant wealth to sop up inflation (corporations and individuals), i…

> Mandate that any fresh new currency be apportioned and distributed to only living citizens > Giving everyone fresh currency, and taxing those of significant wealth to sop up inflation (corporations and individuals), is how business entities get forced into serving the people again. This doesn't really sound like capitalism, mate.

I don't agree with the mate's weird ideas, but capitalism is fairly adaptable and works reasonable well even in fairly weird systems. Have a look at eg Germany's social market economy.

Re: The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

#26

Post by helpfulmandrill »

A vent: why is it any of your business why I had X months without work? Maybe I had enough money not to work for a bit and felt like doing something different. Why am I obligated to continuous labour even when I don't need it. Why am I subject to your judgement for not renting out my life at every possible moment?

Re: The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

#29

Post by birdsongs »

eru wrote: post #21
ventana wrote: post #5

When you apply for a software job in the US and go through a background check, most of your former employments are verified through The Work Number. As an employee, I'm not aware of a way to opt out of this data collection, and I assume if there is a way, it will surely make the future background check harder. Now that they allow to look at your personal report, I went ahead, registered and requested a copy. This is…

Interesting, it looks like you can only get your own data, if you have an American postal address. So if you moved abroad (or never lived there), you can not get your data, even if they have it.

Reason number xxx that I never plan to return permanently. The longer I'm away the more bonkers things seem there.

Re: The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

#30

Post by w3ll_w3ll_w3ll »

helpfulmandrill wrote: post #26

A vent: why is it any of your business why I had X months without work? Maybe I had enough money not to work for a bit and felt like doing something different. Why am I obligated to continuous labour even when I don't need it. Why am I subject to your judgement for not renting out my life at every possible moment?

Corporations want obedient wage slaves, so if they find out that you may have some "Fuck you" money that you can use to stop working for them at your whim, they will avoid you.
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