My son went to talk to a military recruiter. He was going to sign up. He needed to take his birth certificate and his social security card. My son never brought them back. I asked him why he left it. He said because they did not give it back.
Is this common practice for recruiter's?
update:
opps forgot to mention that I made my son go get them back asap.
First of all I would like to say thank you to those who respectfully commented. Yes I did share the importance of ID theft. It bothered me that they kept it.
Sometimes when I I9 someone, I leave the documents on the copy machine by accident.
No reason for them to keep his ID. It was a mistake.
From your other posts, it appears that the recruiter was inappropriate in keeping the documents.
That being said, you can see that your son needs some coaching from you and your husband in terms of the importance of personal information. I hope you give him that.
He is young and immature. The military break down these young people so that they follow orders, and then build them back up to make them miltary material. But the military also expects them to have enough maturity to run their personal lives well. That includes paying their bills. following the law, including contracts they enter into, ie financing a car, furniture, that kind of thing. The best thing you can do is teach him about this stuff early. You also should teach him what simple and compounding interest is so that he doesn't get caught by surprise by retailers who talk him into monthly payments with a high interest rate. This happens to military people so often.
um no. Recruiters do NOT keep this information until they are signed on the dotted line. Then they ask for copies. NOT the originals.
When he went back - what did they say to him?
Do you realize that is HIS responsibility to take of HIS papers? It's a test like what did you forget?
You done should have gotten them back. Did he ask or just assume?
The ONLY time my personal info such as that has been out of my hands was while my passport was processing. Even then, I was nervous until I got it back.
I'd have my child go ask for his personal papers. God knows where they could end up in a pile at an office, subject to identity theft as well.
Did your son say he asked for it back and the recruiter refused, or did the recruiter forget to hand them back to him? I know that here the id is photocopied and returned.
So your son forgot to grab his papers and this is a question why? Are they supposed to say, hey son, you forgot your stuff there? Were they supposed to put them in his pocket?
Sounds like your son forgot them and not that the recruiter kept them. When my son joined he had his documents but they made copies and gave them back.
Best of luck to your son! You must be so proud!
Not in my experience. They would have made copies and returned them within minutes. That's what they did with my son.
As to your so what happened, did they give them back? If not then I'd have a problem with that. If they handed them over and told him they were laying there, right in front of him but he walked out without picking them up, well, that's 2 different situation. I hope this all worked out for him. The military is a good choice for many.
it doesn't sound like the recruiter kept them. It sounds like your son, in all of his excitement, left them behind.
You can't blame a recruiter for this. This is something that squarely lays on your son's shoulders. Life lesson. He is responsible for his paperwork.
