Fingerprinting…pet peeve
Why is it that so many folks want to get their hands on my fingers? And your fingers, too?
In the last few years I have had to have about nine sets of fingerprints taken. As a teacher in the San Juan Unified School District and the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, I have had to have three sets of prints taken. One for each district, two for the Department of Justice (for which I paid twice!) and still more for the various schools where I volunteer. The reason I had to have two taken for the Department of Justice is that they lost my prints, (hmmm ???) so I had to have them taken again for a cost to me of $78.
Meantime… Sam’s Club sent me a letter telling me that about 37 years ago I bought a 32 ounce jar of pickles which might be contaminated with something-or-other.
And meantime again… every bank, credit card company and business that wants us to buy something from them knows exactly where to find us and every detail about our lives. How can it be the databases for all these entities are so efficient while the database for the Department of Justice and schools are so clogged? Who is making all this money on these fingerprinting machines? How many people are we paying to do the same jobs over and over again?
Does anybody else have these concerns or am I specially marked as some kind of terrorist?