Comments: The myth of fingerprints

Welcome back

Sorry about your lack of discernible swirls.

I once had to get fingerprinted because my store was robbed (my being robbed at gunpoint and being held hostage is a story for another time) and they needed to exclude my fingerprints from the robbers.

Alas they didn't catch them, but I got a story out of the situation for your blog.

While I never had to get fingerprinted for a job, I did once have to take a lie detector test to get a job. (p.s. I got the job)

Why? Because those were the rules.(Giving lie detector tests for employment in New York State is now illegal.)

Aloha AL

Posted by al at August 21, 2002 05:05 PM

Every day I talk to / hear from Al, I learn something new about him. It occasionally strikes me as odd that I often learn these new things by reading his comments in this blog, but I've learned to just roll with it.

Mike

Posted by Mike at August 21, 2002 10:45 PM

It is finished. They have taken my fingerprints, and I do not know where they have laid them. I warned the woman that they would probably be rejected, and she told me that, in that case, I would come back to the County Office one more time. If they still got rejected, then I would be sent to the Sheriff's Office, where, according to this women, "the state is required by law to accept people's fingerprints, no matter what."

Also, while I was there, I read the following handwritten sign on the wall, "Remember to follow certain procedures when processing teachers for the Adult School. We've been having quite a few problems." The handwriting is on the wall: I have been weighed in the balance, and found wanting.

Posted by Meredith at August 29, 2002 11:18 PM
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