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Budgiejen@reddit

I have some jobs that were so random and long ago I can totally lie about how long I worked there and how awesome I was, either because the business is gone or because they’ve gone thru 20 mgt changes.

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hillljilly@reddit

Brills

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your_dads_hot@reddit

I know this is a joke but they actually can lol. Job history can be deduced from credit file and i think even from social security

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lollipop-guildmaster@reddit

My husband works for the biggest background screen company in the US. There are government databases that show employment records in perpetuity.

If someone claims to have worked at TRU, and he can't find them in the database, his next step is to request a W-2 to prove it. If this is not provided, then the candidate is flagged as having presented falsified credentials.

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laziestmarxist@reddit

Yeah every time someone reposts this I think, Ah cute, someone hasn't applied for a job in decades

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your_dads_hot@reddit

Lmao yup. My dad told me this one after his being unemployed for several years due to sickness and unwillingness to work regular jobs. So checks out

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WickedKoala@reddit

Not if you freeze your credit, TWN, etc.

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your_dads_hot@reddit

Mm not quite. Credit freezes only stop new accounts. I don't know what Twn is.

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SecretlyRemote@reddit

You should have looked it up before replying. It's called The Work Number and it's basically like a credit report for your work history - including dates and salaries. And it can and should absolutely be frozen.

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laziestmarxist@reddit

It being frozen only stops people who shouldn't be able to from accessing or modifying it, it does not stop legitimate inquiries from credit checks or background companies

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your_dads_hot@reddit

Nah im good. If someone uses an acronym without any context it's not my job to look it up before replying. You may be right that it would prevent anyone (including an employer) from looking at credit file even if you dont apply for credit. What i read said it didnt affect people from viewing it, only making changes.

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dejour@reddit

Is that true? I've looked at my Equifax record and it lists almost none of my actual employers.

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your_dads_hot@reddit

It would depend on whether you applied for credit or told your creditors where you worked.

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dejour@reddit

I agree. So they may be able to find confirmation of some of the places that you worked. Or maybe a contradiction in the dates.

But there would be a pretty good chance that there would be no direct contradiction to having worked as a manager at Radio Shack.

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your_dads_hot@reddit

I dont know that I'd say a pretty good chance, but there certainly is a chance. And some employers will still look for proof. My current job was adamant about verifying employment and my education history so they wanted paystubs, W2, etc. if theyre a legit background check you'll need to substantiate it with SOMETHING before they hire you. That said, as old as Radio Shack is I'm not sure anyone's checking that far back

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dejour@reddit

Fair enough. Last time I switched jobs, they asked for a paystub to prove I had worked at my previous employer.

So certainly saying your most recent experience was at Radio Shack would be a red flag!

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oh_hai_mark1@reddit

This is correct. I have a defunct company I worked for for close to 10 years,so it's a good portion of work history. Since there's no one to call for work verification, I've had to supply my w2s for each year as verification of employment.

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Lost-Line-1886@reddit

Yep. Lots of big companies use Equifax background checks. I got the report when I took my current job and it included every bit of income I ever received (even going back to a part time high school job).

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Sorry-Joke-4325@reddit

Shhh, don't tell the dumb people. Let them screw themselves over.

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MantaRayGuns@reddit

Assistant to the regional manager

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Big_Cryptographer_16@reddit

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turnpike37@reddit

You are awarded one Geoffrey buck.

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strippersandcocaine@reddit

How much is that in Shack nickels?

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Darth_Jason@reddit

100,000 Shackels

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Starshot84@reddit

Keeps the wage slaves moving

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rextacular@reddit

Anyone for Theranos?

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ExternalGiraffe9631@reddit

Or Service Merchandise

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FabulousCallsIAnswer@reddit

Oh my God, I’d forgotten all about that place.

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ExternalGiraffe9631@reddit

It was so much fun as a kid. So much shit that I never imagined people needed.

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FabulousCallsIAnswer@reddit

I remember lawnmowers, action figures, and jewelry. It was like a weird sort of general store that didn’t have the vastness of Wal-Mart or the polish of Target.

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bryanthebryan@reddit

I legit worked there. Good memories, overall.

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Hootinger@reddit

They had a great Ninja Turtles selection.

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alexbgoode84@reddit

Fuck me, I loved that store.

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HIs4HotSauce@reddit

and Media Play

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0sqs@reddit

I'll skip the first bit, and take your word for the second bit.

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alexbgoode84@reddit

Fair.

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Daddysaurusflex@reddit

I was emperor of KB toys

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Difficult-Novel-8453@reddit

Fuck I have RadioShack in my background 😂

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MleemMeme@reddit

I actually was a manager for both Radio Shack and Payles Shoes. I joked to my next employer during our interview that i might bankrupt them.

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LadyJenniferal@reddit

I've worked at like maybe 4 or 5 stores that went out of business in one way or another pretty soon after I left. Having a plausible reason not to list anyone as references when you leave under less-than-ideal circumstances is kinda clutch. As long as you have at least three people who will say nice things about you from somewhere relatively recent. So maybe don't burn all your bridges.

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Sad_Subject_5293@reddit

Circuit city I ran 50 locations

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Game_Knight_DnD@reddit

I was in fact a store manager for Radio Shack, a small store, and got fired for incompetence and failing to meet sales goals.

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Fragrant-Inside221@reddit

Fired for incontinence?

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Game_Knight_DnD@reddit

Little bit of that too, my diet has never been great and I have IBS.

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Allaplgy@reddit

Just leave that last part off and it's not a lie.

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dingiss@reddit

As George Costanza would say, “It’s not a lot if you believe it.”

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Bacontoad@reddit

https://i.redd.it/6zzvnszpdebf1.gif

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dingiss@reddit

And you wanna be my latex salesman

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TelevisionUnusual372@reddit

Right? As if they had “sales goals”.

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West_Description_852@reddit

I was in fact a store manager for Radio Shack, a small store, and got fired for incompetence

You're right. It's more zippy.

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WhyteBeard@reddit

As Spock would say. “It’s not a lie, it’s an omission.”

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Powasam5000@reddit

Well technically now you were honorably discharged and given an honorary waffle party as a parting gift

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FengSushi@reddit

Bruh

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nexusheli@reddit

Keyholder at 2 stores in the late '90s; saw the writing on the wall before it all went to hell.

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Throw_me_a_drone@reddit

I was a sales associate at RadioShack. Fuck retail sales.

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CaptPotter47@reddit

I think I might had a unique experience working at a RadioShack. I had a good manager, good coworkers and generally liked the job. We didn’t work too hard and I still was making something like $14/hr in commission and spiffs.

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zimmermrmanmr@reddit

RadioShack was a shit hole. I worked at one in Denver for about a year in 2008-09. I worked with a guy who had been with RadioShack for 14 YEARS! He failed to sell two cell phone contracts one week and they fired him. I was also robbed at gunpoint once, and they had a therapist come into the store to talk to us. We talked in the back room as other employees came in and out for merchandise.

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onamonapizza@reddit

So you killed Radio Shack!

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LemurCat04@reddit

Probably my fault, I stopped losing my cheap Kyocera pre-paid cellphone once a week.

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rqx82@reddit

You just made me nostalgic for the days when losing your phone wasn’t really a big deal.

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LemurCat04@reddit

I recently had to replace a cellphone in then family, and we had that exact conversation.

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Mediocre_Weakness243@reddit

I mean I was head cashier at Kmart. Fired for basically the same thing (this was around the time they got REAL pushy about those Kmart shopper cards). Six months later that particular store shut down completely

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_Notebook_@reddit

Pretty sure you were employee of the year, right? …RIGHT?

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davidbfromcali@reddit

You didn’t make the goals due to loss of corporate support…

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Wolf_Parade@reddit

The whole fucking chain failed to meet sales goals!

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owen-87@reddit

Can I use you as a reference?

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creddittor216@reddit

You can probably leave the second part of that out of your interview

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wayoverpaid@reddit

Yeah, they don't need to know it was a small store. If you're gonna get fired for incompetence it should be at a huge scale. That's CEO material.

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0sqs@reddit

A straight shooter with upper management written all over him?

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The_Inertia_Kid@reddit

Were you genuinely incompetent or did you just not give a fuck?

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Game_Knight_DnD@reddit

Good question, mostly didn't give a fuck. I got promoted to manager while my mom was in hospice, she passed a few months later, then over the next year, my mother in law died, and my wife left me. So yeah zero fucks were given, let my employees goof off, we all watched tv together most days because it was so slow, and one of the was a stoner who I never gave a fuck about him getting high on breaks.

I was also more like a buddy to my employees than a boss, which never works out.

Then towards the end after the wife left I went to a bar after close almost every night, all in all not a high point of my life.

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kg51113@reddit

The official line would then be: "I was going through a very difficult time with multiple family deaths and a divorce. Unfortunately, the store's sales goals suffered as a result."

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ILoveRustyKnives@reddit

How are you going to get bereavement leave at your new job if they know your parents are already dead?

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kg51113@reddit

"Death in the family" previously. Don't tell them it was your parents.

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graveybrains@reddit

They wouldn't even hire me 😂

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acesavvy-@reddit

I couldn’t even get a interview at U-Haul.

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0sqs@reddit

You could just say that your competence was "notable".

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seanDmailman@reddit

Blockbuster assistant manager checking in

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Iamoldsowhat@reddit

I mean toys r us are back, at least in usa. there is a store at the mall near me

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Positively_Eric@reddit

Service Merchandise

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Jay-Rocket-88@reddit

Circuit city too!

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Bffb550@reddit

Why not Enron, Lehman, Bear Stearns, LTCM? Might as well aim high.

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kaotate@reddit

How ya gonna leave out WorldCom!

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JoshSidekick@reddit

Do we look like we could pass off a high aimed lie?

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0sqs@reddit

Linens & Things, Bed Bath & Beyond, The Sports Authority, Joanne Fabrics, etc.

The possibilities abound.

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rqx82@reddit

I’m holding back my urge to go on a tirade about predatory VC firms and their relentless enshittification and destruction of brands in exchange for short term looting.

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jomabu23@reddit

Don't hold back, tell us what you really think!

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LemurCat04@reddit

Children’s Place, Sears, K-Mart …

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Meet_James_Ensor@reddit

Children's Palace, Hills. Ames, Gold Circle, Fazios, bEST, Zayre

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LemurCat04@reddit

Circuit City. One of my buddies actually did use them.

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Whovian73@reddit

I taught Microsoft classes there for a year after college.

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Meet_James_Ensor@reddit

I still have the Technics stereo I bought there

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0sqs@reddit

I'm not sure I was old enough to be working when K-Mart left Colorado. I wouldn't put that on my CV.

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LemurCat04@reddit

Our last Kmart closed year.

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IsraelZulu@reddit

Wait... Bed, Bath & Beyond‽ Since when?

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cortesoft@reddit

The chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April 2023 and liquidated all of its remaining stores, with the last closing on July 30, 2023

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masturbator6942069@reddit

Enron, AIG, Bear Stearns….

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gooby1985@reddit

As someone in finance, I’d probably not list those…but I was the CFO of Circuit City…oh wait…okay yeah none of these are helpful for me.

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Ok-Amount-4281@reddit

Circuit City!

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sleeperninja@reddit

Circuit City, probably also Blockbusters just out of sheer difficulty.

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STANAGs@reddit

Just call me Mister Manager 🍌🏠

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zenithsabyss@reddit

Unless you live in Canada, toys r us still lives here

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TheWalrus101123@reddit

Lol a 24 year old saying this would be funny. "Dang you were one put together ten year old!"

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Ourobius@reddit

I work in background screening. Yes we can.

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RepresentativeRun71@reddit

Yeah it’s as easy as a three bureaus credit check.

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Ourobius@reddit

Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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silverwarbler@reddit

Three places I worked at went under lol

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sunnyd311@reddit

I worked at a cat hospital and my 2 friends and I are the head manager for each other whenever one of us is applying somewhere!

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doomed_candy@reddit

Interesting that I should come across this while filling out job applications.

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GonnaGoFat@reddit

We still have Toys R Us in Canada. But they are half baby supplies like diapers or strollers.

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originalbrowncoat@reddit

Hey, I’m Mr. Manager!

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creddittor216@reddit

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11229988B@reddit

https://i.redd.it/5mnyrzdbkbbf1.gif

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Atakir@reddit

What is this from?

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11229988B@reddit

Arrested development

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Atakir@reddit

Ty!

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11229988B@reddit

Idk if you've seen it but It's a great show! One of my favorites.

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Atakir@reddit

I have not, it's been on my list alongside IASIP as well, just no time.

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11229988B@reddit

Right on. Hope you get time some day

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imhighonpills@reddit

We just say manager…

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onamonapizza@reddit

There's always money in the banana stand.

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VayGray@reddit

Or Bed Bath and Beyond, or Chuck E Cheese or Joann's...

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marcos_MN@reddit

Tax records?

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rosujin@reddit

You only need to maintain 3 years of tax records.

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marcos_MN@reddit

Yeah but payroll tax records exist both at the federal and state level going back decades.

Someone can prove who did and did not work there.

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rosujin@reddit

You’re probably not wrong, but that’s a hell of a lot of resources to devote to confirming someone worked at Toy’s R Us.

That being said, I started a job at a very big company a couple of years ago. They showed me a side by side of every role I put on my resume and what they found when they researched it (timeframe & job title). Same for my education background. Not sure what sources they used but it was pretty damn accurate.

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Meet_James_Ensor@reddit

Large corporate employers will absolutely buy a report and find where you've worked. Smaller places might not be as thorough.

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laziestmarxist@reddit

Pretty much my entire working life I've had to do the supplemental background check every time I apply for a corporate job.

It really sucks too because someone with an extremely similar name as me lived in the same small college town just before me, did a ton of coke and got a rap sheet, then just left town without paying any debts. And the background check companies do not believe that's not me, even though my name is legally different and I have a clean record.

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marcos_MN@reddit

Oh yeah, I’m 100% being pedantic. But in that spirit, the meme doesn’t say anything about a job search.

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jimlahey2100@reddit

Nobody is going to ask for tax records.

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RepresentativeRun71@reddit

Experian, Equifax, and Transunion have entered the chat.

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marcos_MN@reddit

Yeah but that would be a way to prove it. The tax man knows.

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Impossible-Shine4660@reddit

….genius

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phreum@reddit

We just say "manager"

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Vito_Is_Back99@reddit

Blockbuster, Hollywood Video

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Perfect_Razzmatazz@reddit

I did actually work at a Blockbuster. Even though it was a VERY long time ago, I do list it on my resume, as it's the one thing on there that everyone wants to talk about, lol.

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BlueBomber13@reddit

Was never a manager, but I loved working at TRU. I worked stocking the boys section at like 4 am then worked on the floor till 12 or 1. I really enjoyed it mostly. Parents and kids could be relentlessly obnoxious if we didn't have the toy they wanted, but overall is was a fun gig.

Met my first long term GF there, got to listen to the radio and eat/ drink coffee while we stocked, played all the videos games, caught the two managers boning in the girls back room, guy who worked in the video game section gave my buddy and I free games. What a time.

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AlaskanPotatoSlap@reddit

*Assistant to the Regional Manager

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Asleep_Onion@reddit

The main thing I'm learning from this thread is I'm damn glad I didn't pursue a career in management at any national retail chain.

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Efficient_Shame_8539@reddit

I actually was an assistant manager at Kids R Us. Bonus point: my first job was at Sears.

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Katniprose45@reddit

I worked for Sears in 2023-2024. They still exist. My favorite part was getting phone calls, saying "Thank you for calling Sears Home Services, how can I help you?" and getting yelled at and accused of being a scammed because "everyone knows Sears went out of business"... well damn, don't tell the person writing my paychecks! 😂 Also, YOU called ME!

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Katniprose45@reddit

Friend of mine was a regional manager of Blockbuster by her mid-20s

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AEM7694@reddit

Don’t forget Circuit City in that mix. I’ve been a job reference for friends in the past as a store or regional manager, whatever was needed. I’ve never been asked to go into much detail other than dates and would I rehire him/her if given the opportunity when called either.

“Oh, John Smith? Yeah, he was one of our best managers/assistant managers in the X region/store that I oversaw. Was sad to lose him to /.” Use as appropriate.

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ulfniu@reddit

Assistant TO the Regional Manager

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sporbywg@reddit

"Assistant to the regional manager"

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martymar2g@reddit

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Kitchener1981@reddit

American problems, lol. In Canada Radio Shack became the Source at Circuit City, while Toys R Us are still alive and kicking.

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MyNameCannotBeSpoken@reddit

Folks don't care what you did 15 years ago

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PhiloLibrarian@reddit

Uhhh I was “Sr Manager” at Blockbuster, thank you very much 🤣

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Alaska_Pipeliner@reddit

I was in fact an assistant manager of Kay Bee toys. Best job I ever had.

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throwsplasticattrees@reddit

Radio Shack is still out there.

Moab, UT

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abeastrequires@reddit

As a former manager for Electronics Boutique and Blockbuster, I feel this.

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AltruisticCompany961@reddit

Kaybee Toys.

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minx_the_tiger@reddit

I did actually work at Radio Shack...

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manjmau@reddit

Can't do that in Spain. We still have Toys'R'Us here.

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MisterKayfabe@reddit

Woolworths and Staples for the UK people

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RobertBDwyer@reddit

Or blockbuster

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cathode-raygun@reddit

I've been employed by quite a few places that went under, makes checking up on my past employment a total bitch.

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valdus@reddit

looks at the Togs'R'Us down the street and the Circuit City By Radio Shack just a bit past it

Pretty sure they can.

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Forward_Teach7675@reddit

Fake it until you make it is LOA.

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Rich-Yogurtcloset715@reddit

Does anyone remember the chain of megastores called Incredible Universe? It was owned by Tandy, same as Radio Shack.

When they opened, I could tell that they were in for a rough time.

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RepresentativeRun71@reddit

The Incredible Universe in Sacramento California had their entry street named Tandy Dr. Fry’s bought the location and now it’s just a building advertised as an industrial park for lease.

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Hour-Macaron5407@reddit

Also don't forget about Circuit City. And for good measure KB Toy Store.

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thatprettykitty@reddit

Once upon a time I dressed up as Geoffrey the Giraffe for Toys R Us and Babies R Us.

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Cafecitolife909@reddit

3637 was my store

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gluino@reddit

Assistant to the regional manager.

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Meior@reddit

Assistant to the regional manager.

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um_yeahok@reddit

You forgot blockbuster as well.

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Son_of_Atreus@reddit

I was at a Toys R Us today, shit is still popping off in some parts of the world.

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0sqs@reddit

Make sure you get your dates correct though.

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FairySnack@reddit

Regional Manager for Toys R Us in 2038

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LemurCat04@reddit

My sister worked at TRU corporate HQ and got laid off in the bankruptcy. A good bit of their c-suite in the end days came from Radio Shack. Tells you a lot.

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alexbgoode84@reddit

I worked at RadioShack corporate, those C-Suite were a symptom of a million different diseases that were infecting retail in general.

We like to dunk on RadioShack for a million reasons (most are very valid) but they were just harbingers of what was and is happening in retail now. RadioShack was always innovative, even when it came to failing.

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pinkocatgirl@reddit

Their big blunder was going after the whole phone store concept and trying far too late to market to the maker scene. There’s an alternate universe where a smaller but still viable RadioShack stayed around selling hobbyist stuff like electronics components, 3D printers, PC parts, stuff like that. Basically, they could have been mini Microcenters

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alexbgoode84@reddit

You're not wrong with regards to entering the maker scene too late. I've got to disagree with you regarding the phone store concept. That worked for quite a while, especially as the smaller hobby stuff moved online.

They should have drastically cut stores and balanced their capital way better. At some points, they were holding onto tens of millions of dollars of dead stock that no one wanted. This is horrible when it comes to things like phone cases and such for every single iPhone, cables from camcorders or phones that no longer function, and TVs that were a generation behind in function and size. All of this obsolete or no hope of even collecting secondary value.

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0sqs@reddit

And the Sears executives all came from K-Mart.

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Josephthebear@reddit

Tower records

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phdpinup@reddit

Man, I think about this place so much. I miss Tower Records. I spent too much time at our local one.

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cortesoft@reddit

I used to go to the original Tower Records all the time!

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MantaRayGuns@reddit

I miss the hell out of Tower. I could by tickets for shows at the counter and only had to pay 14 surcharges to Ticketmaster instead of 114 surcharges to livenation online.

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Zerostar39@reddit

I’m Mr manager

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MaestroLogical@reddit

I was actually manager of a very busy Blockbuster but it's so far down on the resume I don't even bother.

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nononononooooo@reddit

Junior Social Media Manager for CW Kids

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PeopleInMyHead@reddit

I also used to be a “Manager” at Blockbuster and Video Update.

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gamerlol101@reddit

"Holy shit, the store you ran closed down? Get out of my office!"

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I_Can_Not_With_You@reddit

Real OGs use Circuit City

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rantingathome@reddit

Until you get to the interview and the person interviewing you was the actual regional manager at RadioShack

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AntiSoCalite@reddit

Sam Goody

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Blackboard_Monitor@reddit

As assistant to the regional manager's assistant at Circuit City, I approve this message!

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kiomansu@reddit

I don't need to lie though. As a former Regional Talent Director for Blockbuster Entertainment, I'm set on my resume.

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XaoticOrder@reddit

Don't forget Borders: Books and Music.

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ImpersonalLubricant@reddit

Actually radio shack is still open. I saw one in Florida last year

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Sonoma_Cyclist@reddit

I was a Vice President at both. They were thriving until I left…

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7empestOGT92@reddit

We just say manager

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SuggestiveMaterialss@reddit

Or Payless, office depot, Frys Electronics, Macy's, sears, and now, JoAnns

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PeppermintEvilButler@reddit

Add Circuit City to that

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Guba_the_skunk@reddit

This only works until someone starts asking specific questions or asks for references. Although being able to say "yeah go ahead and call whoever owns them now, I'm sure they remember me specifically." Would be fun in an interview.

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Appropriate_Split_97@reddit

Same goes for Hollywood Video, Game Crazy, and Blockbuster.

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Juicecalculator@reddit

I did work at toys r us for 5 years from like 06-11. It was weird though because they still have them in Canada

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StillhasaWiiU@reddit

We still have ToysRus in Canada

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BobbyGuano@reddit

I was offered the job of operations manager for the Toys R US midwest RDC back in like 2012.

I am so glad I didn’t take that job and stayed where I was at cause that would have been bad for me.

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KLOWN1420@reddit

Or K-mart

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LooksLikeMatt46@reddit

I was a Reginal Director at Circuit City

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clownfacedbozo@reddit

I ran the trade desk at enron...

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Nostalgic_Fale@reddit

Radio Shack has a surprising amount of stores still open.

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whoisdatmaskedman@reddit

I have a friend who put that he was a manager at a Circuit City, because for some reason, he just couldn't get any managerial experience on his resume. The next place he applied, even though he only applied for a regular position, they immediately offered him a manager spot. A decade later, he's literally a regional manager.

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Tad-Disingenuous@reddit

My neighbor was a manager at Bed Bath & Beyond.

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Prestigious_Menu4895@reddit

Mr manager

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katiebot5000@reddit

Or Kaybee Toys

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P33KAJ3W@reddit

Fry's Electronics

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LorvinCatshire@reddit

"You were a regional manager of RadioShack when you were... 14?"

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_Choose_Goose@reddit

Can you explain this gap in your employment history?

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stlredbird@reddit

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RhoemDK@reddit

I went to the Mall of America the other day for the first time in years and they have some sort of weird Toys R Us branded store there that is a hollow shell of what the stores used to be.

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omegaphallic@reddit

This is my cue to point out Canada STILL HAS TOYS'R'US stores. Our Toys'R'Us had separate ownership, so it was untouched by the shit show that killed the US version.

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dufflebag7@reddit

Leveraged buyouts are a scourge, and Bain capital can burn in hell.

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omegaphallic@reddit

Those the ones that killed US Toys'R'Us? Laws really need to bam this vulture practices.

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DaystromAndroidM510@reddit

World of Science/Natural Wonders crew represent

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eyedeetentees@reddit

Nor Sears.

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Alternative-Light514@reddit

“Yessir, I was the VP of marketing at Circuit City. Started as entry sales and grinder my way up”

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urbanlife78@reddit

Small potatoes, I was a senior design manager for Twitter

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Trevon45-2@reddit

Or circuit city!

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Siphoneder@reddit

I was a pilot for TWA in high school.

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dufflebag7@reddit

Two little mice fall into a bucket of cream…

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WickedKoala@reddit

Or a Circuit City

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

For many years, I worked at a retail store that was then bought out and merged with a competitor. My store was closed and I was laid off. It was my only full time employer I'd ever had. I then became a stay at home dad for years.

Now looking to get back into the workforce, im sure this fact is hindering me.

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kg51113@reddit

Are there any groups you volunteered with or skills you learned/used that would help you? I know a lot of women who were stay-at-home moms for years. They got back into working by getting paid positions for groups they had volunteered with or working at their kids' schools. Several have gone from PTA volunteer or cafeteria worker to paraprofessional at the school.

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