2 pieces of ID, at least one with photo, is pretty darn bog-standard everywhere. It's the only way they can tell you didn't just buy someone's ID at the corner from a pickpocket.
ill pitch in 10$ via paypal
yes, you need documents that are not expired
http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf
if you skip to the last page it lists what is acceptable. 1 from column A or 1 from column B and one from column C
if you're under 18 you can use a report card apparently.
I've never understood why expired photo ID isn't allowed to confirm identity. Does your identity expire too?
Also why wouldn't you be allowed to provide a guarantor in lieu of identification? That's just absurd.
"There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you." -Mazer Rackham - Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
I appreciate the offer, but I'm not really looking for hand outs. I just wanted to know if I really needed a photo ID. I've only had one other job and I wasn't even asked for a photo ID. I guess you can say I'm still a newbie when it comes to knowing how the hiring/job stuff works out.
Why not ask your parents if they can spot you the 50 dollars, and you'll pay it back at say 10 dollars a month over the next 5 months?
Do yourself a favor and get a photo ID. If you're underage and working part time, again, do yourself a favor and at least work retail, food is nasty!
If not, get a factory job, and make some real money get experience and move on when you can.
McD's is at the very bottom of the barrel, right next to walmart.
If it isn't on paper, it isn't true.
Even if its true, if its not on paper, you're naive if you call it true.
Saying that one person said something, thats not documented, makes you look foolish.
Do you see a pattern?
Find or get validation in writing, and rely only on what you have in writing.
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The only reason I was able to get a job at McDonalds was because my friend is the hiring manager there. No one else was giving me the time of day. I applied at Wal-mart, best buy, local restaurants, pawn shops, Publix, hell I even applied at the porn shop just 5 minutes down the road from my house.
I just got hired and I believe they needed two documents to establish state residency, and one to establish citizenship. But that's Wyoming.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
I've never been asked for photo id by an employer before. Being able to cash paychecks in your name pretty much proves your identity, and as long as you provide a valid social security number for them to remit taxes under the government gets paid, in fact if it wasn't your own social security number you would have no way of claiming any overpayment at the end of the year; the government has no reason to give a fuck about a valid photo id.
The only way it could benefit an employer is for the purpose of age profiling.
Every province, state, etc. has different rules governing business practices, so I have no idea what is behind the $10,000 figure. One of the first things you learn in business admin school is that improper documentation can screw you over harder than anything else.
My older brother, who ran his own painting business, was out $5000 because a guy who he hired under the table for a few weekends claimed Employment Insurance (for being out of work) after he was laid off of another job. He used my brother's business as a former employer. Basically, my brother should have setup an employment record for him. The reasoning why he had the guy work under the table was because both of them were Status Native Canadians working on reserve, in which Natives don't pay taxes if working on reserve. So he figured, why bother with the paper work? I really don't know the whole detail of it all and why it cost him $5000, but it did, simply because his documentation wasn't right.
Identity doesn't expire. The card you use to prove your identity can though. In the case of photo ID, the main reason it needs to be renewed, I would guess, is because people change appearance every so often. On my driver's licence from when I was 17, I had a full head of hair. More than a full head, it was thick and luscious. By the time it came to renew at 22, my hair thinned out so fast that I shaved it. Almost nobody from high school recognized me in such a short time.
Or they want to know that you are who you say you are, so that they don't get fucked over by the IRS/ICE/FBI for employing people that aren't allowed to work. You can give somebody else power of attorney to cash cheques in your name (no photo ID required to write one), and without a photo-ID the employer has no way of knowing if you are the same person as is named on the social security card/work permit.
Last edited by Butler to Baby Sloths; 2013-06-05 at 01:59 AM.