There are times when I am very dissatisfied with my country. Today is one of those days. I had another lesson learning that big, big government is stupid and expensive. My wife Lovely has reached out to an employment agency to seek a job. Lovely is a caretaker who has practiced the art for over twenty years. She is also a degreed nurse, having trained in a USSR bloc country. All she wants is a chance to take care of someone and get paid for it. The deep blue State of Illinois has decreed that to take care of someone for pay that person must have their background checked. They are not interested in checsking her nursing credentials or her experience as a caretaker, only that she is not a felon. One step in the process is to be fingerprinted. The prints are then sent to the Illinois State Police for a clearance.
Fingerprinting today differs from when they pressed your fingers onto an ink pad and then pressed it into a square on a piece of paper. Today they press your fingers onto an electronic pad and hope the machine captures the swirls of your fingertips. It is a little like when I programmed my phone with fingerprint I.D. It took me several swipes before the program would recognize me reliably. Lovely went through this process and submitted her prints to the agency, who then forwarded them to the State Police. The State Police replied a week later that the prints were rejected. Nothing more. The job agency called her and told her that her fingerprints were rejected and would have to be retaken. Today we went back to the same approved service provider to retake them. We were bonged on the spot. “In order to retake your fingerprints I need a copy of the rejection letter and a new order.”
“Where do I get that?”
“You get it from the employment agency that originated it.”
A picture of a German Shepherd chasing its tail filled my mind. WTF? How are these fingerprints ensuring that the woman is capable of caring for someone? Evidently, the lawmakers of the Illinois Senate who wrote this law think fingerprints are important.
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