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Where is your high school diploma?

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Vic Vega

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This is the question I found myself asking about eight months ago. I was interviewing for a new job and had received and accepted an offer. Next comes the background check.

I was surprised and slightly befuddled when I was asked for a copy of my high school diploma. Crap. Where is it? In some box somewhere with old power bills, vehicle registrations and my 10th grade economic final cheat sheet I imagine. In an attempt to not have a single "hangup" with the hiring process I agreed to locate it and provide a copy... So I look and look and look and tear my house apart. No luck.

I call the county in the state where I went to school to obtain a copy. The school is closed, in the mid 2000s apparently. My high school doesn't exist anymore. The county says I can request a transcript from any other high school in the county. I discuss this with HR and they will accept the transcript, it gets mailed, I get the job, puppies and rainbows, etc, etc.

Anyway, now I am on a quest to find it. I don't even remember what it looks like. I went so far as to contact someone I went to school with to ask them what it looks like - surprise - they had misplaced theirs as well.

I only ever looked at the damn thing once that I can recall, the day they awarded it to me.

So, where is your high school diploma?
 
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Wow that sounds odd. I can understand college diploma, but school? And normally they get the info directly through the college or whatever, and don't need to see the physical copy.

I have no idea what I did with my high school diploma. Curious now... Just checked my folder where I put income taxes and random "keep" stuff. Found my business license that I got when I was in high school, but the diploma was not in that same binder. I had this other smaller folder used for carreer related stuff back in high school, I may have put it in there. Where that binder is though, is another story. Curious to find it now. 😛

My college diploma on the other hand is actually in a frame and hung in my office.
 
I've never had an employer request a copy of mine though... thats odd that your employer did. At least they will accept a transcript for you though.
 
Wait, this is ATOT. People actually went to high school here? Figured most just skipped grade school and high school and went directly to the highest ranked university in the US and graduated with 20 degrees. 😛
 
This company was, and is, very selective. If something is on your resume you better be able to prove it. They checked "everything" and I mean it, including my entire education, including high school which was a first for me. They admitted to asking for it because they too had attempted to contact my high school and found it to no longer exist (something I knew nothing about...). Anyway, I was happy cooperate, it's a great job with a great company.
 
hmm i graduated 20 years ago. i gotta be honest i have no clue where it is. most likely in my office closet
 
IronWing said:
Is this another brag thread? Yeah right, everybody on ATOT graduated high school.
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Next year I'm moving up to fries...

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Been wondering where mine was for quite a few years. My parents inventoried their safe deposit box a couple of months ago and informed me it was there. I graduated 27 years ago and haven't needed it yet so I told them to just leave it there.
 
Since the OP is posting to ATOT why would any one care? Being a rich MD with a law degree means you've got a high-school diploma.

I also never keep important records: Much easier just to 'shop whatever you need however you need it.
 
Such a thing doesn't exist in the UK, but my GCSE's (General Certificates of Secondary Education) are in my NRA (National Record of Achievement)
 
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