Kinda different but having to do with release of records.
I had a contract with a big kalifornia based oil company that starts with Ch and ends with ron, worked for them on projects for 10 years then came a change of guard when my cohort was retold, that means required to retire in one of the countless downsizing panics of the 40 years I was in the business. The new guard wanted new contracts.
I demurred because my old contract was simple and still in force. I finally relented to be a good sport for the new kids until I found the new contract required background checks that I almost agreed to until I read the agreement and release. It signed away access to every record I ever had since grade school and allowed interviews of anybody I had ever known or that even heard of me AND allowed release of such information to anyone the investigating outfit decided to give it to. I said NO, Hell NO! Nobody in the new guard understood my refusal. Seems all of them, as new hires had agreed to the same thing. WTH?
I terminated my contract and never did sign the agreement of course.
Is this kind of pre-employment background check common as was told it is?
I thought the background check charade was silly to boot because I had handled contracts and approved bills on behalf of the company worth something like hundreds of millions of dollars over the years and knew the procurement system as well or better than most employees.
Life is odd and sometimes humorous. I’d had enough tomfoolery for a lifetime.
Sounds like they were wanting you to agree to the same background check that gets done for folks fixin to work on DoD programs classified Top Secret Secure Compartmented Information.
I can see it being done for folks working at defense contractors, but for working at an oil company???