[WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.

[Avi]

On Dec 13, 2007 9:43 PM, <wikien-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:43:54 +0000
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.
> On 14/12/2007, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> > According to the Register,  the Foundation's former COO was convicted
> felon.
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/wikimedia_coo_convicted_felon/
> >
> > This is just great. And now all the Register's previous material looks
> correct
> > because they broke this nonsense. This is likely going to be all over
> the
> > newspapers tomorrow. I'm so shocked and appalled that I don't even know
> > what to
> > say about this. Why were basic background checks not done and why
> > didn't we know
> > about this sooner. Are we trying to implode?
>
> Why would you do a background check for a pretty standard office job?
> I don't know about the US, but in the UK such background checks are
> usually only done for jobs where the person will be working with
> children, or similar.<http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l>
>

It depends on the company. For the companies I have worked for, a background
check including criminal record check is pretty much standard. Some even
require drug tests, and I work in the financial services industry where
there pretty much is no exposure to child care.

--Avi

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