Credit Reports

I just read an article about employers using credit reports more often to make hiring decisions. This is highly outrageous considering the mess many of the "top" companies have put consumers and employees in. It's common knowledge that the banks and credit card companies are doing whatever they can to screw over consumers. What with their alternating due dates and zero-balance practices. How much more can consumers take?

With the downturn of the economy many people can't pay their credit cards or their mortgages because they have lost their jobs, or the banks have jacked up their rates so high that it is unbearable. So now we have to open up our entire lives just to work. No more privacy. Once an employer looks at your credit report they know so much more about you than you really want to tell them.

There really isn't a rating agency for employers. Oh sure every now and then somebody does a best or worst companies in America to work for article, but that really doesn't cut all the slimy things that companies do. When you talk to executives about the lead-up into the recession they readily admit the heinous things that they did to employees. So by all right shouldn't they be held accountable? A rating agency for employers would expedite this process.

A friend of mine has quit her job recently because they had bedbugs. Yes you heard me...BEDBUGS!!! How would you like to go to work and come home with bite marks and a nasty infestation. But what is really crazy is the volume of people that go to work for this company. They hire like 20 people every three weeks. The staff turns over that fast. Where are the protections for these employees? If she could have reviewed the rating for the company she would have never gone to work there. She would have realized that they sexually harass their staff constantly and when somebody complains they get fired. This is America. You are supposed to be protected from things like this.

Oh well. Maybe when the revolution comes things will be better.