How does unknown, unfixed credit trouble cost you your job?

In a few cases, a bad credit rating could affect your current job if, for example, it caused you to lose a required security clearance. Financial problems are a red flag for clearances.

One thing some people may not know is that a bad credit rating may make it more difficult to get a good job in the first place. Many employers check the credit ratings of potential employees and won't hire someone with a poor rating. I'm not saying it's right or wrong - it just is a common practice.

The pirate one has something to do with his girlfriend's bad credit causing a home loan to not go through or something.

I've seen 3 commericals in the series. The first I saw was the pirate one. The second was about a guy having to live in in-laws' basement because his wife had a bad credit rating that prevented them from living in a home of their own. The third is the one about buying a car.

I don't see the one about the wife any more. It was a rare commercial that makes a woman look bad. That will not do. It seems perfectly acceptable for a commercial to make men (especially husbands/fathers) look like idiots (e.g. Sonic) but don't dare do it about a woman.

It was really free when the site got started, then they changed it at some point.

I keep hearing that you're supposed to be legally entitled to a free one each year and the reporting agencies are supposedly required to give it to you, but there doesn't seem to be any place that will actually do so...

Here you go:
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

You can have a free one from each agency, once a year.

Thanks to this thread, I had that *&$%#@! pirate jingle going through my head all afternoon.

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And here I thought selling love was illegal everywhere (in the US) except for certain locations in Nevada.

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Then there's this anti-DUI ad that shows attempts to promote social classes in the US continue:

The redneck with his beer:



The middle class stiff with his martinis:



The upper class twit with his wine:

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I don't even remember the commercial this was from, but it appears number 12 is ready to try for a two-point conversion.

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This one's for Gillianren. FX grammar strikes again.

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Nope, they only omitted the the enrollment clause when they started. They added the clause in the advertisement after the FTC sued them.

That info is also in the link.

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In case you wondered what really goes on when you shave, we now know through the miracle of science!

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Here's a local ad for the company that took over the company that took over the company that took over the company that had a monopoly on cable TV "service".

The first picture shows the strong fellow who works for the company. He has to be strong, because, if you have a new house and need service installed, the company employees tend to rip your yard to shreds when they bury the cable, etc. Weaklings don't do that effective a job.



The second shows a company "employee" who is either from Central Casting and doesn't know how to do a sincere smile, or is an actual employee who is showing how much she likes her job.

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That's a whole lot better than all your facial hairs having a head that's identical to your own.

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The one selling the flavored water that has the guy tumbling down bubble wrap-covered concrete stairs and gleefully leaping off a sky scraper.

"DO NOT ATTEMPT" Really? I would've tried it otherwise.

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Then there's this commercial, in which two Darwin Award candidates taunt Bigfoot with the advertised product, that sends the message "Only jerks eat our beef jerky."

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There are a couple of really annoying ones running on the radio for an outfit that runs walk-in health clinics.

Annoying bad Julia Child imitation: "Welcome to 'Cooking With Maggie'. Today we're making icebox dinner rolls, which I like to call 'little pillows from heaven'. Start by combining one cup of water and one cup of shortening over high heat -- be careful this burns like the dickens...<hissing sound> AAAAAAGH!"

The other one is for a home improvement show and has the host shooting himself with a nail gun. Repeatedly.

The point seems to be that you can go to the walk-in clinic and get fixed up, saving the expense of the Emergency Room. But what they are depicting are, I think, really serious injuries which probably justify not only a trip to the ER but a call to 911. We're supposed to think this is funny. Not funny at all. I change the station when they come on.

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On some newer commercials they have the phase now avaible in canadian dollars. What in the past if I didn't have enough canadian dollars I could not buy the product. They should have said price at par in canadian funds.

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You mean like this?



Could have used that during the French Revolution.

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Any energy drink commercial. My fave is 'Five Hour Energy', whose claim to fame is that it contains no sugar or caffeine and is only about two ounces in volume.

A snoot of George Dickel the same size would be much better for you, anyway.

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I think I've seen a slightly different one, but yes.
I have only one reaction to that:

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I haven't paid much attention to the commercial beyond noticing it existed, but I just did a Google on it. Apparently it contains about the amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee, and some vitamins. Wow, I've been drinking "energy drinks" and never knew it!

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