I took my first ever polygraph today and I am still in total disbelief. I went in naive and came out devastated.
This was a pre-employment screening for a dispatcher position at a sheriff's department.
According to the examiner, I had (apparently deceptive) responses to ALL drug questions, ALL theft questions AND the "have you ever seriously thought about commiting or been involved in the commission of a major crime" question. ???
I have NEVER been involved in any of the above, short of my prior law enforcement experience so I went in thinking this would be a piece of cake. After three rounds of questions, the examiner left the room so another could read the results and, when he returned, he asked me "So, what do you think we found?" Naturally, I said "nothing" but he said they'd both concluded that I had the above reactions.
He said they'd need more testing, hooked me up again and this time basically asked questions in the above areas only, with a question about did I believe he would only ask questions we'd reviewed placed before and after. He said these were slightly better, but I was still reacting.
By this time, I was pretty well speechless and he then said they may "give me the benefit of the doubt" and asked me (since I have 10 years prior experience) if they hired me, would I be a good dispatcher. By this time, all I could do was say yes, although what I really wanted to do was tell him where he could shove his "benefit of the doubt."
The whole experience is one of the worst things I've gone through. The way my test read, my life consists of stealing to buy drugs to take while I'm planning my next "major crime." I wish I'd found this site before today instead of while looking for something to pick up the pieces with!
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