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Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

#31
"Equifax flagged 283 contractors for potential 'dual employment,' documents show."

Would this not be a big flag to reclassify these contractors as employees? Being able to have multiple clients is one of the factors to determine if you're a contractor...

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

#32

"Equifax flagged 283 contractors for potential 'dual employment,' documents show." Would this not be a big flag to reclassify these contractors as employees? Being able to have multiple clients is one of the factors to determine if you're a contractor...

You get a lot of this up here in Canada. Companies hire you as a contractor, but prohibit you from working other roles.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm enjoying my free credit monitoring, because it's oh so transparent and useful.

I once missed a $10 payment on my credit card and lost 100 points on my credit score. I swear on my life.

> I once missed a $10 payment on my credit card and lost 100 points on my credit score. I swear on my life.

Is it an option to not use CC in your life? I don't but I understand people in the city may have a different experience.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

#34

> Executives, especially in the tech industry, have said they're worried that some remote employees are distracted. “Distracted” like the time that Equifax leaked hundreds of millions of pieces of personal data. Maybe instead of blaming the workforce they should worry about making the company a place that people want to work exclusively. Equifax does not matter at all as an organization.

Sadly, they do matter. Lots of power, low accountability. Equifax and the other two have a very large impact on USA citizens day-to-day. I hate it but, we can't pretend they don't matter.

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#35

There is a way to "freeze" your job data I believe - totally different from freezing your credit. No idea how far it reaches but I have considered it myself. Anybody know how to do it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705428

Wish I was surprised that I can’t access it. Somehow I zoomed in enough on my phone to sort of see the images without it placing half of them off screen(!), and correctly picked the images I could barely see. Got the green check mark and all. Got an error that I didn’t complete the CAPTCHA, did it again and another green check mark, but now it won’t submit at all.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

#36

"Equifax flagged 283 contractors for potential 'dual employment,' documents show." Would this not be a big flag to reclassify these contractors as employees? Being able to have multiple clients is one of the factors to determine if you're a contractor...

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Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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> CEO Mark Begor this week informed employees that some of their "teammates" were fired for having "a second full-time job while maintaining their full-time role at EFX," which is the ticker symbol for Equifax. Don't punish people for being entrepreneurial, it's completely un-American. If you can't tell whether someone is producing adequate value or not without interrogating their finances, that's on you. What a conn…

If you believe the article, they were able to tell whether someone was producing adequate value since they claim the investigation was into people that were not performing as expected. The data in question was one piece of the information.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once missed a $10 payment on my credit card and lost 100 points on my credit score. I swear on my life.

> I once missed a $10 payment on my credit card and lost 100 points on my credit score. I swear on my life. Is it an option to not use CC in your life? I don't but I understand people in the city may have a different experience.

Rental car companies will sometimes not rent to you unless you use a credit card specifically (not a debit card).

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

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post #15

> CEO Mark Begor this week informed employees that some of their "teammates" were fired for having "a second full-time job while maintaining their full-time role at EFX," which is the ticker symbol for Equifax. Don't punish people for being entrepreneurial, it's completely un-American. If you can't tell whether someone is producing adequate value or not without interrogating their finances, that's on you. What a conn…

If you believe the article, they were able to tell whether someone was producing adequate value since they claim the investigation was into people that were not performing as expected. The data in question was one piece of the information.

I don't believe them. If they had low performers, Equifax could have let them go without the non-consentual financial rectal exam on the way out. The number of jobs is irrelevant, only performance should matter.

This is a political / marketing move, as they could have also done the inspection without publicizing it.

Re: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

#40

Kind of a shame that many company runners feel entitled to control the lives of their workers outside the scope of their duties. It's a thing

If you believe the article, the employees were fired because they weren't doing the "scope of their duties".
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