There's no doubt about it

[omorka]

The fingerprinting crap is just ridiculous. Original appointment time was 10:20. It's 2:15 now and I'm just leaving the "print shop". Apparently small, squishy fingers are hard to take prints of, in addition to them running nearly three hours late.

I've seen them all, and man, they're all the same.

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[krystiegoddess.livejournal.com]

At our TCTA rep's suggestion, i pulled my SBEC report and lo and behold, rather unbeknown to me, i have the now-defunct "Associate School Psychologist" certification....so am in the midst of researching whether or not that bumps me into the "must be printed" category, even tho i don't (and can't) work under that certification - you can't even get it anymore.

the whole thing is ridiculous.

[kamiki-seto.livejournal.com]

Because I work as a nurse in a call center, and because nursing licenses aren't centralized in any way and the laws vary from state to state, I must hold no less than six different nursing licenses to do my job. (Missouri, California, Nevada, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and South Carolina). To apply for at least three of them, I had to be fingerprinted - two cards for each of the three states that required it. And I fingerprint very, very badly. Nevada finally gave up after three attempts and let me sign some kind of affidavit that I was not a criminal. California passed my second set, and New Hampshire accepted the first set I sent. By the end of it all, I was sick of the smell of the ink, let me tell you....

The most frustrating thing? ALL of those states collect them to submit to the FBI for the processing. Why I couldn't just do ONE stupid set, I don't know, since they were all going to the same place in the end, anyhow.

BTW, there apparently IS a technology called "Livescan" which is like a fingerprint scanner - no ink or mess. But almost no one uses it, apparently.....

[shefsatyr.livejournal.com]

Social services use the electronic scanner and HPD used to do it as well. Last time I had to redo my FBI process for holding a P.I. License I did it electronically via HPD on the 10th floor of some building downtown.

That's what that old army post was for

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're using the electronic scanner for us. I can't imagine the newsprint-mess every overhead slide and whiteboard in the school would be if they were using ink. Of course, that' one of the reasons this whole process is so slow, too - if the machine balks or crashes, they have to reboot it.

Re: That's what that old army post was for

[kamiki-seto.livejournal.com]

I wish the scanner had been available for us. I HATED the ink process, especially after going through it so many times. I hope I never have to do it again.