Or... she knew they would find something in her background check?
Exactly.
OTOH--a company offers you a job, negotiates a salary, gives you a start date, accepts your arrival to said campus--and they STILL have not finished the background check?
Seriously? I wouldn't work for them either. They are not organized, nor do departments talk to each other.
No. The ground around her back is fine. Fine assed, mind you!