u/SuchCat2130

Written offer signed + background check cleared + start date given

I am paranoid. I work in tech and with all the layoffs, the odds of a sudden hiring freeze that gets my offer rescinded before my start date is not zero. But tech is also a small world, so if I do the "resign on the same day as your new start date" strategy, it'd burn a 5 years reference and might follow me around when my coworkers inevitably join other organizations. I accidentally did this at my first job that made me non-rehirable with Lyft, which is already following me around on background checks. So I don't need another one if at all possible.

Anyone had a similar experience?

Admittedly it was for cause.

We had to flag down our server multiple times to add water, waited forever for desserts and had to flag her down 4 times for the bill. It is a poor experience for sure, but $5 out of $200 still felt mean to me. Like, it is not that serious. Usually when I get poor service, I still leave 10% and just write a comment on the receipt like "please be faster on refills." But my bf says that is how everyone does it.

Do people usually do this for poor service and it is normal?

Class of 2018 here. Every time I accept a new job and education verification is required during the background check, I pray to every deity that has ever been prayed to in human history that JHU has finally modernized this process like every other peer institution did a decade ago. Nope. Still 5–7 business days just to verify a degree. (Oh and if you need to request an official transcript, it is OVER, just resign)

And because of that delay, I now have to push back my start date by a week, which literally costs me thousands in lost income.

Wild to me that this was already a problem when I was a student applying for internships. Everyone else would start on time while I sat around extra couple of days waiting for HireRight to get a response from Hopkins. Then when I got my first job as a new grad, I got to deal with this again. I can’t believe I’m dealing with the exact same issue the third time almost 10 years later. Do I just have to warn my recruiters that my university is slow as fuck for education verification proactively at this point?

The universities where I got my two master’s degrees can complete verification in SECONDS. Meanwhile, Hopkins is still doing it like it is 2005. I'd love to see the actual process for this at jhu. Is it just Tiffany sitting at a table in Levering?

Rant done. Just old man shouting at the clouds.

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