I employed a new worker a couple of weeks gone and did not trouble to do a background check.
I had employed him on the advice of another worker of mine and made the error of presuming that he would be an upstanding voter.
When it came to work ethics, he was upstanding. He wasn’t one second late or called in. As an important point, he was more of a hard worker than some of my vet workers. On one Monday morning, 30 minutes before he was due to arrive at work, two detectives showed up in my office door. Seemingly, there had been a warrant out for this man’s arrest and I had not a clue as to any of this info. Naturally, I obeyed everything that they were asking and felt awful when I knew that my employee would be showing up, getting arrested, and I’d just be standing there watching. I mean, I employed this person because somebody had given me a good report of him and it seemed to be a total lie. I’d had no reason to ask about his arrest records or presume that he had a record. An hour later, he’d been taken away in cuffs and the investigators were filling me in on everything that was on his lengthy list of arrest records. Allegedly, he liked to borrow automobiles and commit thefts.
I did promise that from that moment forward I’d be changing my policies on how I hire staff. I was going to start doing a background check, looking for any arrest records and doubtless even requiring a drug test. I wasn’t about to make a compromise on my company’s future again. I spent a couple of hours on the web, seeing if I could get a hold of this person’s arrest records and see whether this can have been stopped. Arrest records should be exposed information at no cost.
If they have arrest records, than maybe they lost a right to some of their privacy. If you are in a hiring positions, just as I am you may want to take a few moments and research a potential worker’s arrest records and background. It may protect you from getting an early morning shock as I had received.