Me: I was a regional manager of Toys R Us between 1995 and 2008.
Interviewer: It says here on your resume you were born in 1999, and you moved to Australia in 201x.
Me: ummmmm
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That’s why my CV looks so strong:
Director of Internal Audit; Enron Corp. (1998-2001)
Senior Vice President for Risk Management; Lehman Brothers (2002-2008)
Edit: for all the recruiters reaching out, I’m not interested. I’m currently Managing Director for Growth (Europe) at Tesla, and expecting to get a huge bonus after our Q4 2025 sales numbers are final.
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I worked at a dot com and although I was fairly young at the time I was promoted quickly to management (we had several thousand employees at the time).
When it all came falling down and we were all looking at jobs at the sametime I was being asked by proespective employers "was John Smith really General Manager of customer service"?
The vast majority were customer service monkeys padding the fuck out of their resumes.
That said hate the game not the player. I always nodded and said yes.
Fuck em if they can't do their own verification work.
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Frys electronics is a good bet too they're a more recent shutdown that might be more relevant than a blockbuster or toys r us
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I was a manager at a RadioShack. And it was a franchise, so it’s even less verifiable (I think). Not a regional manager though. Oh, I mean, I was a district manager.
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no one is hiring someone solely based upon your experience of working at any of those locations ... Ever.
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Nearly every HR (realistically any job that earns over 65k a year) have systems like TheWorkNumber, ADP, Credit Bureaus to get your employment records.
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If you done fucked up, they can request tax records and I can guarantee you that all those businesses you listed very much have their tax records available from the IRS.
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This idea worked like 10 years ago... Even shitty HR have figured this out by now.
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RadioShack is still around. Not sure how good it is.
Interestingly, it started as a mail order business in the 1920s, switched to retail stores in the 1960s, and then in 2017 it switched back to an online only / mail delivery business.
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Toys R us s still exists though
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The Social Security Administration certainly can.
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I ran Circuit City. All of them.
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Didn't expect to be jump scared by the abandoned Staten Island shoprite that was used as a set for the fallout TV show on here
Was Radio Shack as cool as Tandy stores in Europe?
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Only if you're fucking old.
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This is a great idea till the interviewer hits you with the "oh cool, my freind Jhonny was also a regional manager there, where were you the RM?"
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Yes I was most important manager at Circuit City which closed because the covid and I haven't worked since. Job please.
Or Sears
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Does toys r us not exist anymore?
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