John
Fwae,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, May 23, 2005
I hate to say it... but you had the packet for a month and a job offer was contingent upon its return. Why did you wait until the last day?
ANONYMOUS
Austin,#3Consumer Suggestion
Mon, September 13, 2004
I know why I haven't been hired by any of the police departments I have applied to in Central Texas: I am a Woman. It was OK for me to work as a reserve for free back in the 1980s when EEOC was ENFORCING hiring policies and discrimination was prohibited and dealth with but when I needed a paycheck, it was a DIFFERENT story. You haven't lived until you come in to turn in an application and see the police chief take your application and tear it up and throw it in the trash can and then he looks at you and says, "I don't want NO whores, dykes or bitches working here." "No women even as dispatchers?" I asked him. "No way I want any filthy whores in here," he told me. He finally was fired for sexual harrassment but it was too late for me. I had never even MET the man before. members of his family occupy all sorts of law enforcement here in this county because law enforcement in Texas appears to be extremely NEPOTISTIC. It's WHO you Know. If you don't KNOW anybody, you dont' work. Maybe Idaho is like that too. I have over 1600 law enforcement training hours and many of these classes are no longer offered and I have about five years' total street time and 20 years of armed, high-risk security work in places where the police woudln't go-- but I am UNHIREABLE. I have a college degree, for one thing, but this isn't about me... And if you ever looked at the agreement that you signed authorizing a background check, you signed something that prohibits them from telling you WHY you weren't hired. Because you signed that little line, they can hide a lot of illegal hiring practices behind it, done with your signature. The only way you could have negated that is to indicate that you permission was given only reluctantly or under duress. There used to be two letters that stood for the Latin term "signed under duress" but I can't remember what they were. I signed all of those authorization letters using those two little letters and was eventually able to pin down that I was being BLACKBALLED after I advised the city attorney that I had not given my consent freely when I signed that line. You, sir, might be being blackballed too. Have you checked all of your employment references? Better yet, get someone else to check them for you... You might find out. Did you recently have a family probate dispute and someone in your immediate family ( or an ex spouse) hate you enough to fabricate lies about you that would be believeable????) Did you perhaps work for a private security services contractor and someone was jealous as hell of you because you were a cop and they weren't and so they thought they would get you that way? Somebody threw the monkey wrench in the hiring process for you. I hope you did get a good job in law enforcement eventually. But somebody had it in for you and they passed that sorry sentiment along to the Idaho State Agency.Find that person. Get PROOF that they blackballed you and SUE HELL OUT OF THEM! Get a great settlement too. Better yet, I hear that the New Mexico Highway Department is hiring and I don't think they would pull something stupid like the agency that you described did. For sure,I won't apply with Idaho but then,again, unless they needed another TOKEN female, they wouldn't hire me either. Maybe it was your AGE. Maybe the man who did the hiring was gay and you weren't his type.( It happens more often than you think in law enforcement). I have encountered so much sheer HATRED and PREJUDICE in law enforcement I'm not sure I would ever WANT work in it again.Because this time, they might set me up to lose my badge and/or my life. I feel a lot like the police dog did who was a hero in the 911 rescues in NYC who was recently blasted to death by the two ignorant NJ cops who killed him with 11 shots in spite of the fact that HE WAS WEARING A BADGE! Good luck guy. NOBODY on earth could understand what this feels like unless they had lived through it.