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Whee!

So! I verbally accepted a verbal job offer. Start date unknown. Rate is known, and above minimum wage. Commute is probably best done via bus, and they do give a courtesy transit card. There are benefits, but probably crappy contractor benefits. The interview team said that most/all of their team (admin support) was contract-to-hire.

The hours are 8-5, with an hour lunch; if things are slow, there's an option for a half-hour lunch and a 4:30 departure.

Assuming all goes well, I will rule two floors of tech office's snacks, via the reception desk.

I interviewed on Friday. Both people interviewing had on black and white patterned shirts. I made three. I introduced them to the term "chocolate-based diplomacy", and they liked my idea of tagging broken things with the ticket number for the fix.

Next I get to go to an IRS office and ask for 7 years of employment history. Whee!

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Congratulations! Hope it’s not too long a wait, and the IRS interactions go as well as can be reasonably hoped.

The security guy at the IRS office doesn't know if they keep 7 years' worth of W2s.

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What do you need the IRS records for, if it's not too bold of me to ask?

The company wants to dig around in my recent employment history. As I can't necessarily lay hands on 7 years' worth of
W2s by tomorrow, the records the IRS has will presumably be enough according to the recruiter.

My guess is that they're worried about industrial espionage, and might be looking for a payroll for some big tech company that I didn't disclose up front.

Just, FYI, this all sounds, from where I sit, hinky as hell. First of all, I've never heard of a company doing this. (Is this common out in Silly Valley?) Second of all, none of that makes sense. I've had to order IRS tax transcripts, and they take like a month or more to ship. And if I were paying someone to commit industrial espionage, I wouldn't hire them directly, I'd have them go through a temp or contract agency, duh, to keep my hands clean; and I think I wouldn't use anyone who had eve been on my payroll, either. (But I'd be far less concerned about their employment status than their social media presence; it doesn't matter if they're on a 1099-MISC through Manpower if they posted "Microsoft (contract) 1999-2004" on their Linked In page or "Whoohoo, new contract at Apple starting tomorrow" to Twitter. Setting up espionage is actually pretty hard.)

I don't actually think IRS records are useful for forfending industrial espionage. They can only prove you worked a place that you did, not that you didn't work a place that you didn't. Maybe they're trying to confirm your employment without having to call references?

ETA: Also, it bothers me that this is a way at getting at your previous earnings data, which is information I don't think a hiring party should have access to. Like, there are places making it illegal to ask job candidates previous salaries/wages now. The one thing they'd definitely get from your W2 history is enormous negotiating leverage over your pay.

Edited 2018-01-30 17:36 (UTC)