I was working as a leasing consultant temp and got fired from my assignment, after management encouraged me to apply for the full-time position with them.
The reason for being let go was that I failed the pre-employment screening. My manager wasn’t provided details of how I failed due to confidentiality and said I would have to ask HR.
After several days, I finally received a return call letting me know I had failed the pre-employment screening because of my poor credit.
Yet 6 weeks prior, my credit report was checked in order for me to be hired as a temp.
That’s when I realized, it’s because I filed for bankruptcy after I started working as a temp.
I have no evictions. My credit was fantastic until I went through crisis after crisis during 2021-2022. I have been up to my eyeballs in debt just trying to survive. I made every payment on time every month until I literally could not afford the minimums & bankruptcy became my only option.
My temp agency explained that it’s unfortunately completely legal for a private company to do this.
Technically leasing consultants work with large amounts of money (accepting deposit checks/money orders). Due to my poor credit/filing for bankruptcy, I am considered too much of a financial risk to hire me full time.
Their company policy is that anybody who fails the pre-employment screening is not allowed to work there, even if they were already working there as a temp. Thus my termination.
Their HR even encouraged me to apply again once I’d gotten my credit taken care of.
Unreal.