One time before a l took a lie detector test I went out and ran five miles in 95 degree weather before I took it because I thought the run would relax me. I’ve always sweated very easily. That must have really altered my skin resistance. I know I failed the test because the manager of the convenience store called me up and told me the job had been given to his cousin.
I think my ex husband was the delusional one and not me. He stated to me once that if he ever had to sit a lie detector test he would be clever enough to beat it. ha ha. He was such a liar.
Um, I don’t think the test mattered here.
Why would you take a lie detector test for a job like that? Never heard of such a thing.
I don’t believe for a second that he gave the job to his cousin. It was because I got weird results on the lie detector. I was only a little bit mad about it. Next time I will know not to get all in a sweaty lather before I take the test. My skin resistance is strange. I can sneeze and start sweating.
In convenience stores they have had problems with workers helping themselves with the goods in the stores. It can cost them a lot of money, so they take every precaution.
Wow never heard of this before…
Are you sure this really happened @crimby?
Never ever heard of such a thing before.
Things like this just don’t happen.
Yes. It happens. In a lot of convenience stores they routinely give polygraphs to prospective employees. I don’t know why you have a hard time believing that.
if I ever had to take a lie detector test for a measly convenience store job, I’d pass on that in a heartbeat. A lie detector test sounds miserable
Dont know much about those tests, but I know you can pass them if you can control your breathing.
They have, I think like an 11% failed accuracy rate or something.
You probably failed the test because your breathing was way off due to the run.
Oh yeah. Lots of experience. They still haven’t found the bodies. It’s all about clenching the sphincter when you lie.
It seems a bit extreme to give you a lie detector test at a job interview.
I think it is mostly done in convenience stores. I don’t know why.
Never heard of that before. It sounds a bit ridiculous really. I would consider denying it because I would be thinking too much about how the manager is going to be towards his employees.
With just a little pilfering an employee can cost a convenience store a lot of money.
There is better ways of choosing decent people to work in shops though.
Yes, and lie detectors aren’t always reliable, but I guess that as long as they don’t publish the results they’re within their rights. One question that got me was, “Have you ever cashed a check when you knew you didn’t have enough money in the bank to cover it?” I was in the army at the time, and towards the end of the month I did write a check or two that I knew I didn’t have the money to cover, but I was able to cover the amount, with a ten dollar fine the next week.
No lie detectors here, but in South Australia 90% of jobs require you to have a police check. This includes jobs working with children and the elderly. Even for voluntary positions you are required to have a police clearance.
My brother-in-law is sixty and recently applied for a voluntary position for which they required a police check. It showed up his only criminal conviction of larceny, dating back to when he was twenty years old (forty years ago) and was fined $100 as punishment for his crime.
You now have to be squeaky clean to get any employment in South Australia.