Random Thoughts 15: Crystal Clear 2021 Edition
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Notice how headphones used to be big then got progressively smaller then progressively bigger and now they have gotten small again?
CycloneErik
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Well, I'm confused. A current employer (of 3 years now) might have sent me something for an employment backgroudn check.
E-mail looks to be from a legit company that actually does these things. Whole thing feels like a glitch, maybe related to a recent raise?
E-mail looks to be from a legit company that actually does these things. Whole thing feels like a glitch, maybe related to a recent raise?
I would check with your manager before doing anything. I personally hate when you get these things without any prior email telling me to expect it.
Our company has actually sent bogus stuff and if you click on the enclosed link it tells them you are a potential victim for a phishing scam and they make you take the phishing course again.
CycloneErik
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That's the plan. I've read of too many scams.
I work tomorrow. I suspect the question will confuse everyone, we'll laugh, and I'll shrug this e-mail off.
Yeah, I'd just wait and ask your manager or HR about it. Might be innocent, might be a phishing attack.
Could also take the path of wait a couple of days and see if anyone harasses you about it.
First Advantage? We've gotten emails from them with wording to the effect of "In reference to the Employment Verification request being performed on behalf of (name)" and we had no idea what it was or why we were getting it. I think it was then followed up with phone messages (from people for whom English seemed to be a second language) which we barely understood a few words. We ignored them and eventually they stopped.
I used to get calls from resume fact-checkers about former student employees when they were out in the real world. It rarely progressed beyond verifying employment dates. Many of our lab rats asked if they could use me for a reference; for those, if I agreed to be a reference I would generally write a letter for them to copy & enclose with their resume. It got more complicated when everything started going online.
CycloneErik
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I open the next 5 days. That hour before we open is an easy time to ask, because there are just a couple of us there.
I used to get calls from resume fact-checkers about former student employees when they were out in the real world. It rarely progressed beyond verifying employment dates. Many of our lab rats asked if they could use me for a reference; for those, if I agreed to be a reference I would generally write a letter for them to copy & enclose with their resume. It got more complicated when everything started going online.
True. The examples I mentioned were to our ISU center email address and phone number, not to individuals. That plus we had no idea that the person named was looking for a job OR that they would have listed our center as a verification resource.
Judging by the number of tickets being sold in the corners of the south side of JTS I'm guessing a lot of people bought the cheap season tickets just to sell them off for UNI and The Sleazy Hawkeyes
And just like in basketball, that ticks me off. There are a lot of people trying to get season tickets (maybe not so much the past couple of years) for MBB and there are none to be had...but the secondary market is always robust.
CycloneErik
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In attitude updates, the DMACC staff in Ames and Boone is great and easy to work with.
It looks like that 8-week course will happen, too. Had 3 students, but there weren't cancelling it. Class doubled since the beginning of yesterday.
On the other hand, the college overall is changing ths system they use for class rosters, attendance, and grading updates in the next couple weeks. With the large # of technologically illiterate people they hire, that feels like a wreck waiting to happen.
It looks like that 8-week course will happen, too. Had 3 students, but there weren't cancelling it. Class doubled since the beginning of yesterday.
On the other hand, the college overall is changing ths system they use for class rosters, attendance, and grading updates in the next couple weeks. With the large # of technologically illiterate people they hire, that feels like a wreck waiting to happen.
It's pretty incredible the number of technologically illiterate people there are out there. While it is an ever evolving landscape it's not like doing stuff online is new anymore. There are people that still don't understand the simple concept of creating a desktop shortcut.
CycloneErik
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My first semester with DMACC, I attended some dinner for adjuncts the college held.
It was really a front to explain Blackboard and get some of these folks to put their courses together. They got us into a classroom, showed how to log in, what the "course content" could do, how to make files, folders, etc.
I showed the dude next to me how my whole course was laid out already, and then we looked around. It was really brutal to see how basic they had to be.
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