Unvarnished Could Cost You Your Next Job

[chunkymonster]

In the spirit of Comic Book Guy, "Worst website, ever."

 

[marcus_br]

That will annoy a lot these kind of people that delete Twitter, blog and everything else from the internet when checked up by others, right Janey?

 

[boredreader]

Well, there goes our right of privacy.

 

[sintek]

Negative feedback for the Misuse of the word "Peruse" in the second paragraph.. FAIL

 

[Guest]

I'm all for it. If you've never been involved in some shady business in the past, then you should have nothing to worry about. Of course there's always going to be haters.

 

[steiner666]

they might as well call it slanderlawsuit.com

 

[megamanx00]

OOOOoooooo umm..... crap.

 

[hellwig]

[citation][nom]nahdogg[/nom]They check your credit because your credit is a record of your fulfilling promises. When you sign a contract with a bank or a credit card company you are promising to repay them. If you blow them off and decide not to pay you are breaking the promise and as a result your credit score (think of it as a 'Trustworthiness Meter') goes down. Some people are perpetual liars/scammers and their credit score reflects it. People who screw up their credit inadvertantly can repair the damage -but over time. Trust/credit is a valuable commodity and shouldn't be something that changes exponentially in short periods of time. Based on your comment your probably some idiot who blew their credit without thinking and now blames the system for holding them accountable.[/citation]
Uh no, my credit is perfect, but I understand your point. However, as others have responded, your credit might be bad for reasons that have nothing to do with your trustworthy-ness. And NO ONE ever said your credit report was a reflection of your personal character. It is simply a collection of your previous credit arrangements with companies.

And as I pointed out, I didn't say ALL bad credit ratings are based on nothing. I specifically mentioned that someone without a job/money is going to have bad credit because they will be forced to miss payments, borrow for something they know they can't pay off, and even go into bankruptcy (all to survive). All because some heartless company decided to fire them in the middle of a recession. That's how the world works. Its criminal for another company to deny that person employment because their previous employer laid them off with thousands of other people despite the fact that they were a good hard worker.

 

[doc70]

this is so idiotic and dangerous, I'm gonna say that bringing that site down would do a great service to humanity.

 

[betrayer_]

scary and effed up

 

[kingssman]

And to think people fear the government invading privacy when private companies invade and sell you out way worse than what a 10 question census can do.

 

[IFLATLINEI]

My lawyer is already salivating.

 

[joe nate]

Well I can see this company getting sued for slander. If anyone can upload anything, as it says, and nothing will be removed, then anything untrue or exaggerated would be slander and there are laws against slander - especially when it could be used to cost you a job, which would be at LEAST thousands of dollars...

I don't know why they want to open that can of worms, but it's not worth the risk.

Like others have said, this better be a day early april fool's joke.

 

[ravewulf]

By the site's very nature, I don't see people taking it very seriously. How can you be sure that anyone commenting on there is legit? You probably don't even need to know someone to write a review.

 

[rdawise]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]You live in a dream world. True, most people don't give wikipedia a grain of salt, but employers use anything and everything to determine whether or not to hire someone (they'd use Wikipedia if it had an article about you). Employers here in the U.S. even use your CREDIT RATING for chrissake. I mean, you have no money, your credit is going to reflect that, you try to find a job (to get more money), and someone won't hire you because your poor credit means you are a risk to steal from them (which is total B.S.).[/citation]

I don't know why this isn't rated higher. The most logical thing I've heard in a while. Kudos to you sir!

 

[yay]

Jealous coworkers of the world unite!

 

[rdawise]

[citation][nom]nahdogg[/nom]They check your credit because your credit is a record of your fulfilling promises. When you sign a contract with a bank or a credit card company you are promising to repay them. If you blow them off and decide not to pay you are breaking the promise and as a result your credit score (think of it as a 'Trustworthiness Meter') goes down. Some people are perpetual liars/scammers and their credit score reflects it. People who screw up their credit inadvertantly can repair the damage -but over time. Trust/credit is a valuable commodity and shouldn't be something that changes exponentially in short periods of time. Based on your comment your probably some idiot who blew their credit without thinking and now blames the system for holding them accountable.[/citation]

Your arguement would hold water if you would have not have likened "credit rating" to "trust". Consider cases like Bernie Madoff. Think he had a good credit score (which if I'm not mistaken he did)? Would you "trust" him (I hope not)? Credit Rating is a reflection on your ability to payback YOUR bills. Not the ability to be trusted with someone else's. Besides, I thought there was a seperation between business and personal.

 

[klavis]

[citation]Employers here in the U.S. even use your CREDIT RATING for chrissake. I mean, you have no money, your credit is going to reflect that, you try to find a job (to get more money), and someone won't hire you because your poor credit means you are a risk to steal from them (which is total B.S.).[/citation]

FYI People can only have access to your credit score if you let them. You have to sign a paper giving them the right to check your score. All you have to do is not sign the paper. In most cases they can not deny you a job just because you didn't let them check your credit score. Only in very money sensitive areas is this actually allowed, even then it is suspect. It's just a matter of knowing and enforcing your rights.

 

[victomofreality]

most retarted idea to hit the internet in I don't know how long!

 

[Guest]

Hasn't anyone heard of Cyber Bullying. Great idea, create a web site to flame people. What a bunch of tools... Let the slander suites begin.