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They don't want your heart, your soul, or your ass either for that matter. Get over it! You are nothing but a loser just like George and the rest of the crybabies on this site. What is amazing and very humorous is how long you guys can cry and howl over the loss of your "dream job".
If you weren't so pathetic you would be a real hoot.
Yes, I do whine a little bit about it, until I get paid every two weeks (I'm a GS-12 equiv, and soon to be a GS-13 equiv in late '05 or early '06, if I stay where I'm at). Also, the whole quality of life thing must be considered as well. Now, I CAN go to Law School part time, and easily slide into either a county prosecutors office or the AG (NJ) office when I graduate... Funny how they don't require polygraphs (at least in NJ). Then again, maybe I'll want to pursue another avenue...
In any case, I don't "cry" about my situation, in terms on not getting the job, but rather it's some of the rift raft (yourself?) that are less qualified, but are able to "pass" the polygraph, and are hired. Perhaps you're the next Aldrich Ames? Or maybe the next Robert Philip Hansen? "Passing" a polygraph is meaningless...it doesn't prove that you
aren't a dirtbag...
As for the other poster asking about me, please re-read my previous text. I qualified my answer that you quoted in parenthesis in the actual post with something to the effect that I had nothing to lie about in the first place...
Also, it was "PA" who concluded to me that showing deception on any part of the polygraph led her to question the loyalty of the person she was examining, despite the fact that the areas I "showed deception" were "lifestyle issues." It seemed strange to me that that was how she chose to illustrate the importance of the polygraph, but then again, who am I to question her? After all, she's the "expert."
The whole expereince was a farce, and I knew it would be a waste of time, but my panel interviewers were adamant that I continue (and yes, I told them I had taken one before, and failed, to which they explained to me that you don't "fail" a polygraph, you merely "show deception." I would've gone down that road just as easily as the path I am now on, and would've invested the same "ownership" for which I now put in my current career (although when I graduate, new doors will open, and life will again force me to choose new paths).
My only regret, as I kind of alluded to earlier, is that so much faith is put into the polygraph, despite the assurances that it's the "total person" that's looked at. How many qulaified people are we turning away b/c of this? And how many that shouldn't be there are slipping through (i.e. the obvious ones; Ames and Hansen, but what about the Florida USSS agents who were stealing money a few years ago? Or the FBI agent with the Chinese girlfriend, who was his informant, and his girlfriend, and passing secrets on to China). I'm sure there are more, but we'll never know until after the damage is done.
One last thing about the poly that I find interesting: the military is at the forefront of polygraph research and usage (I think they "own" the school, for the most part, for the Feds). In any case, even they were duped (MANY TIMES) by former regime members in Iraq. So much for the experts...