re: Has anyone here ever had a job offer pulled due to failing a background check?

I would say no to all of that.

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You shouldnt have told them anything since you havent been convicted. Most job apps ask if you have been convicted, not charged.

A recruiter doesnt have any say in that matter. Dunno why they would step in like they did

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Yeah I am kind of mad at myself since I feel I might have given too many details.

But I had my guard down since I keep getting emails from HR about how smoothly I am moving along in the process, they just ordered my laptop for me, already set up my work email, had me do all these onboarding tasks. And because my recruiter told me that the pending charge wouldn't matter I figured this guy just wanted a quick run down of the charge so they could skip over it and move on.

But after I gave him the quick rundown, it didn't end there, he tried to dig deeper into the details. The longer the call went with the guy I realized that he may not be on my side and I may have been giving him too much information.

You shouldn’t have assaulted that guy. Had you not assaulted that guy you’d have the job. But how you don’t.

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You shouldn’t have assaulted that guy. Had you not assaulted that guy you’d have the job. But how you don’t.

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I didn't lay a finger on anyone. The security guards kept saying if I touched them they would knock my teeth out. I purposely set out not to touch them. I wasn't charged with assault or anything close to it. If I touched them I guarantee you I would have been charged with that as well.

Oh yeah you slapped a car. I forgot what stupid thing you did.

I guess it depends now on the type of job you have and the sensitivity of the position in regards to said crime.

Some jobs a DWI is an automatic no but others they dont care. Violence charges, especially domestic, is usually a guaranteed no across the board if a company finds that.

But yea I would have just stayed silent about the whole ordeal since you havent been convicted of anything. Cant do anything about it now. Good luck man

Are you white or black? That’s all that matters.

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I review background checks for some hires we make and as long as it's not something that is a do-not-hire offense that companies have depending on the field, usually HR or hiring managers are looking for some background on the charge to see if there is some understandable circumstance there before proceeding (which they usually do)


They're not looking to hear that you hired a lawyer to take care of it or that you haven't been proven guilty of anything. They can see that part from the background check and hear that all the time. You may have done this already, but just explain the situation if it wasn't anything major and it was understandable given circumstances since nobody is perfect.

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Thanks for this post. A close friend of mine, his wife works in HR for BP in Houston and she told me pretty much the same thing, BUT she said that every company is different and you never know how strict they are on these things.

However she did say that rescinding an offer, especially after they have moved as far forward with me as they have, is very expensive for the company and its generally a last resort. She doesn't think the company would be willing to pull my offer for something I haven't even been found guilty of, and even if I was, she thinks its low level enough considering I have zero criminal record otherwise. She said at BP they have hired people with far worse criminal records.

She said background checks, especially those done by a 3rd party like mine is, they don't pass or fail you, they just give a report to your employer and assess the new hire a level of risk and its up to the company to take that risk level given to them and make their decision. However, it wasn't the 3rd party background check company that contacted me today to get details, it was someone from the company I got hired by.

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You’re either holding back details or this is going to be dismissed and you cost yourself a job by disclosing something you shouldn’t have to the background investigator.

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The way you tell the story that depicts you as the victim and completely innocent likely has the person believing you are a liar and/or hiding something.

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I hold back details because its still a pending case and I don't want to discuss too much on the internet. I've never said I was completely innocent, I think I showed a lapse in judgement that morning by not letting it go.

But the reason I act like a victim is because those security guards beat me up in response and then I had to spend an entire weekend in jail. I didn't think their response was proportional. I was covered in bruises/scrapes all over and was diagnosed with a concussion and sprained wrist. They didn't strike me in the face but gave me blows everywhere else and I had to sit back and take it until the cops arrived.

I meant more along the lines of damage done to the vehicle. If all you did was slap it that’s a frivolous suit with almost no chance of success. You should have just explained that when the company doing the background check called to ask about it.

If there truly is that much damage then you didn’t just slap it.