Wow, this is completely accurate. Has temp working job on college campus, information from when I was at Microsoft and Google. Interesting from Microsoft it just contains my base salary and cash bonus, but Google has base salary, cash bonus, and RSU grants as "Other Income".
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#372Earlier quoted context omitted.
>But, I didn't opt in for them to have this information about me to begin with. Everyone is up in arms about Facebook and Google collecting our information... meanwhile credit bureaus are sitting in the shadows giggling to themselves
The obsession with "big tech" as the biggest abuser of consumer privacy frustrates the hell out of me, and must be a real delight to credit bureaus, cell carriers, data brokers, fintech parasites, and all the rest of the slimy fuckers who do far worse things every day and aren't even on the public's radar.
You forgot the worst of them all, the government!
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#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
If all employees share their salary information with each other, it becomes a headache for the employer. Each employee may quote the other person's salary demanding a raise. This is the reason behind the "keep your data confidential" idea.
In countries where unions exist for everyone on the building, everyone knows what everyone else is earning. Additionally, in most European countries we don't have a culture of hidding our salaries from each other.
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#374I kinda thought all 3 of my offers during my recent job change were suspiciously close. Now I know why, as all 3 employers requested it. Fuck everything about this.
A few jobs are missing, but the most recent (and therefore most relevant) is correct.
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#375I have a distaste for the credit reporting system because of (a) the flagrant security lapses and (b) I still don’t understand why “identity theft” is somehow my problem when I am neither the fraudster nor the defrauded party. What’s the strongest argument in favor of credit reporting agencies? If we got rid of them would borrowing money become so difficult or expensive that we’d regret what we wished for?
Someone told me they are illegal in many countries and that they are mainly a us/uk thing (may have been a European centric view).. not sure how accurate that is.
Edit: seems lots of places have them but they differ a bit, some only showing missed payments:
https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/many...
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#376I can't even log in because they want to text verification codes to phone numbers that have never been associated with me (maybe they're old work cell numbers?)
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#377In Sweden salary information like this is provided by the government for everyone. Just a phone call away.
Jag är glad att jag lämnade Sverige.
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#378I have a distaste for the credit reporting system because of (a) the flagrant security lapses and (b) I still don’t understand why “identity theft” is somehow my problem when I am neither the fraudster nor the defrauded party. What’s the strongest argument in favor of credit reporting agencies? If we got rid of them would borrowing money become so difficult or expensive that we’d regret what we wished for?
Someone told me they are illegal in many countries and that they are mainly a us/uk thing (may have been a European centric view).. not sure how accurate that is. Edit: seems lots of places have them but they differ a bit, some only showing missed payments: https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/many...
The details of how it works and what exactly is legal differ country to country, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are countries where they are not really a thing, but they are not just a US/UK thing. (e.g. here in Germany many landlords will have you submit a score document from the primary credit rating agency with your application for a flat)
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#379"To log in, enter your SSN, date of birth, home address, and" No way, no how.
I dutifully entered everything they asked for, because, you know, they're Equifax and they undoubtedly have it already. Then they said I needed a "verification code" and gave me the option of half a dozen phone numbers and email addresses to choose from... none of which remotely resembled anything I've ever had (the email addresses all contained my surname and appeared to be randomly generated). When I clicked the "n…
Also me with this issue.
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#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s also no law that requires it be true or accurate. What a great system! :-/
Yeah, capitalism is a nightmare.
Capitalism generally happens successfully in societies with laws.
The difference with socialism is the state both defines the laws and decides how to allocate resources, which tends to result in a lot of poverty.