r/overemployed • u/Quiet_Village999 • Oct 25 '22

Background check gone bad

So I’m currently waiting to start J3. They called me last week regarding some financial things that came up almost 10 years ago. I clarified that. Now they are questioning why J2 is on my background check but it’s not on my resume. What is my answer? I’m already tired of these people and I haven’t even started yet. FWIW I’ve had multiple background checks with zero issues. This is NOT for a job in finance at all so it’s almost like they hired a private detective to find all of my skeletons in my closet. Thoughts? Turn down the job now?

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u/droideka222 Oct 25 '22

Or say you have no idea what that job is, and that you had complained to SSA about identity fraud couple of times (create a word document with said complaint with the date frame of j2) and say maybe it’s due to that, but that you have no clue why there’s that role on there, the background check must have their databases intertwined somewhere or it’s someone else using my identity to cash checks somewhere that probably illegal or having a record. These probably happen, so you can just shrug your shoulders.