Dear Playboy Advisor: Questions From Men and Women to the Advice Column of Playboy Magazine by Chip Rowe

Author:Chip Rowe [Rowe, Chip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health; Fitness & Dieting, Sexual Health, General, Self-Help, Relationships, Interpersonal Relations, Sex
Amazon: B000JMKTQE
Publisher: Playboy Press
Published: 2006-09-26T07:00:00+00:00

When a job application asks if I’ve ever been convicted of a crime, I check no. But the truth is that when I was 18 I got arrested for shoplifting $7 worth of stuff. Two years later I was charged with disorderly conduct. (My buddies and I got drunk and yelled at the cop.) These things happened 16 and 18 years ago, and I chalk them up to being a dumb, rowdy college kid in West Virginia. I paid the fines and cleaned up my act. I now have a great career. I hate being untruthful, but I think answering yes on an application would count against me. Will a background check bring my transgressions to light? Is there a way to clean up my record?—W.K., Cleveland, Ohio

Our instinct would also be to check no, but the human resources people we asked all said that’s a bad move. A few suggested that you qualify your response on applications by writing “college pranks.” The risk in answering no is that if a background check does uncover the crimes, a potential employer may wonder what other secrets you keep. It’s unlikely that 20-year-old indiscretions will be a factor, especially if you’ve had a clean record and an impressive work history since. But don’t spend any more time worrying about this without doing an investigation of your own. Contact the state police to request a copy of your criminal record. With any luck the incidents fell through the cracks. If not, you can petition a judge in the county where you were charged to have the infractions expunged. It’s been done many times before.

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