Long story short I graduated the year of COVID, I worked for a bit in a job I hated and had 0 relation to the field I wanted to enter, quit after 2 months and spent 9 months job seeking/applying to grad school, which I've been in since last summer. Now I'm about to start at a company as a (well paid) intern and the background screening failed to turn up my 2 months of post-college work, as well as my current grad school.
they want me to “explain this gap with supporting documentation.” Should I just lie and say I worked in that job until I started grad school? Or to hell with it and say I took 9 months to learn a new language, applying for grad school, etc.
Gosh I fucking hate American corporate work bullshit culture.