wamsachel

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Comment · 7 years ago
THANK YOU

#sent from my vim

Comment · 8 years ago
>And how long did the incident last?

Not long, I left the gas station and received a call from the police within an hour or two, and I kind of remember them telling me it was only happening that morning.

I only remember that it was a Sinclair station

Comment · 8 years ago
/shrugs

Well then congrats to the NSA; they successfully weeded out a spazzy dork

Comment · 8 years ago
Yes; the background investigation produced a police report which I hadn't mentioned in my application. At the time of the gas station incident, I didn't know that I had just created a paper trail that would damn my background check.

On one hand I understand how a discrepancy in the background check would raise concern, but on the other hand I feel that the police report easily shows no wrong doing on my part, and that this "blemish" could have been cleared up at the 1st polygraph interview, rather than stringing me along for 3.

Comment · 8 years ago
>Would you really want to work for an organization that plays those sort of mind games? reply

No, I don't anymore. But at the time I was excited for the opportunity

Comment · 8 years ago
I once was gassing up at a station, and for whatever reason the card reader on the pump wasn't charging, but would let me pump gas anyways. So me, and everyone else who'd used that pump that day, received a phone call from the police telling me to go pay for the gas. I figured it was just an honest mistake and didn't think anything of it.

Fast forward a bit, to where I am undergoing a polygraph examination for the NSA. The exam made me uncomfortable and nervous, but I thought everything was going well. Except for when my interviewer came back and told me I was showing sensitivity towards the hiding crimes question. WTF? And when they do this, they're just giving you enough rope to see if you hang yourself with it. But I had no idea why (or even if) I was showing sensitivity to this question.

They called me in for a 2nd polygraph, this time I didn't show sensitivity to hiding crimes, and I figured I was good to go.

No. I get called into a 3rd exam (each exam was separated by a couple months, mind you). This time the interviewer told me "You did better at the hiding crimes question than I thought you would" W.T.F.?!?! The interviewer then left the room and came back with a manilla folder, from which he procures a piece paper which he reads that I had a suspected larceny charge back at home. I honestly had no idea what he was talking about until I remembered the gas station incident. But after I try telling him about it, he tells me that he doesn't believe me and that he thinks I stole that gas. This leaves me extremely flustered and the rest of the polygraph was a train wreck.

3 strikes and I'm out, my conditional employment with them was terminated.

What irks me the most though, is that when I got back home I retrieved the larceny report from the court house, and in that document the whole story was laid out and my account of the situation was corroborated. So what the hell? Why throw me through such a ringer?

Fuck the polygraph.

Comment · 8 years ago
Puh-leaze

Russia has it's issues, but the current craze is just that: crazy.

People are becoming more acutely aware of the tightening noose of big money spending in government/elections, and so big money media is moving attention away

Comment · 8 years ago
Newsrooms must circle the wagons to protect one of their own, but when it comes time to make a buck off of someone else's social media flubs...
Comment · 9 years ago
His writings critical of the West go largely ignored in the West, which again isn't that surprising. For example his forward for Animal Farm was famously censored from publication.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's not odd at all when you consider what works of Orwell are cited in pop culture (1984, Animal Farm) and which ones are not (Homage to Catalonia)
Comment · 9 years ago
D.A.R.E

Drug Acquisitions Require Encryption

Comment · 9 years ago
haha I had the same thought when I saw the title, 'wait, that's just regular commerce right?'
Comment · 9 years ago
What'd I violate?
Comment · 9 years ago
>The openness of our military is one of the great strengths of American democracy.

lmao if you believe that's true.

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