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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

If that is true then I am a very lucky person. I was under the impression that employers could only contact previous employers and ask for verification of your employment, employment dates, and whether or not they would re-hire you.

Is there an article I could read or a website that verifies this claim?
I hope I have not mislead our friend.

Let me put it this way - for a good company, you have to sign a release form where they can dig all they want. I just got poked and prodded and checked out from head to toe with my background, education, employment, salary, titles, you name it. Don't sign the waver? Don't get hired! If I even had a speeding ticket, that would have been very bad!

-S