I’m applying to freelance at a company and experiencing the most insane background check process I’ve ever experienced. Is this a new Trump thing? Like 7 years of employment names, addresses, a friend having to do a whole thing for my I9. Like the company warned me but this is nuts.

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I’ve been thru it 2x with a holdco agency (in fact the same one, they hired me back 8 months after the first gig ended…) If it’s a third party service they’re using, yeah those people are insufferable box checkers. Both times they kept coming back to me with increasingly unreasonable requests until I refused to give them anything else. I still got the gig.

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Omnicom?

Nope. It’s not a big holding company.

Sounds odd… esp for freelance. Must be working on something spicy

It’s very unfair

That’s wild

Yup this is new. Same for fed clients in the past year

I had a roommate yrs ago that worked as a fed, told me his job needed my SSN to run a background check and I said hellllll no. I was in a rent by bedroom and didn’t get to choose who I lived with. Felt way too weird

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