I guess I'm lucky then. You couldn't pay me enough to work with children. Most of the adults I work with act like spoiled children anyway. With the career I'm in I don't deal with money, funds or accounting records. I have absolutely no interest in dealing with company money anyway due to the liability risks.

I actually read last week in a professional magazine I get that it's illegal for companies to do credit checks on potential employees. Companies might do it not knowing it's illegal or hoping the person doesn't know it's illegal. Government jobs might be exempt from this and this might be a new law, but it's something to remember.

Employers can, with the permission of the job applicant or employee, check credit history.  They will give you the form and of course you can refuse to fill it out.  Of course they will find someone else to hire.

Quote from: Radar on June 06, 2011, 10:04:47 AM
For the simple search it didn't list my gender but they do have generic male and female icons with your name(s).

I haven't seen any such icons on the sites I visited. Which companies did this?

Quote from: Arch on June 06, 2011, 02:07:22 PMI haven't seen any such icons on the sites I visited. Which companies did this?

Well, I checked those three and you're right- I see no icons (even though DOB Search is down).

I must have seen them on another people search site because I do remember seeing them. I searched for other people search sites awhile back to get taken off their lists too. I don't remember who they were though.

Well, if you remember which site it was, let me know. I'm still compiling a list of such sites--there are a lot of them--and I didn't see gender icons on any of them. So that means that there's at least one site out there that isn't on my list, and it might have me pegged as "F."

No, no, no.

Whatever site it was the icons were just generic silhouettes. The male silhouette was by my current name so they might just go off of name assumptions. Who knows with these site.

Maybe whatever site it was got rid of the icons? I wish I could remember the site, but I do remember it was a people searching site of some kind or a directory.

I remember a site that used generic male silhouettes...heck, maybe it was even Facebook. I don't really recall; all the people on my two friends lists either have pictures or are male.

Facebook have generic gender pictures if the user don't upload their own profile picture. The gender of the picture is based on the gender of the person chosen by the user. You have to choose a gender when registering though one can unchoose that later. I don't know what they do in that case.