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    Working at secure site without security clearance.

    Ok i am 5/6 through my contract and called the DVA yesterday to check the level of my clearance to be told that I dont exsist. I signed the OSA and filled out the paperwork when i arrived on site last november.

    Now should i show up if security clearance is still being processed or have the client co taken a chance and not got me SC'd?

    Before you ask yes I should have security clerance for the type of info that passes by my desk/eyes!

    Pleomax
    Pleomax

    This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

    #2
    I'd check with the client Security Office to find out what's happened to your clearance forms, unfortunately it's not unknown for them to go astray and they contain your sensitive information.

    Make sure that it's submitted to the DVA before the contract ends so you do actually get the clearance.

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      #3
      Depends on the level I imagine but at basic level I found you can be on site but have to be escorted, somebody is supposed to come out and meet you in the morning etc. Hasn't that been happening?
      Last edited by xoggoth; 21 April 2009, 12:06.
      bloggoth

      If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
      John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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        #4
        I'd keep your mouth shut until the last day as security officers are right ‘jobsworths’ in general and will use any excuse to exercise their ‘power’. I've been escorted off site twice when transfers that were supposed to happen didn't.

        I pointed out the client’s error on both occasions and billed accordingly.
        Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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          #5
          Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
          Depends on the level I imagine but at basic level I found you can be on site but have to be escorted, somebody is supposed to come out and meet you in the morning etc. Hasn't that been happening?
          Nope!
          Pleomax

          This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

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            #6
            I know a guy who sued GE because the security officer forgot to send off the renewal forms he filled out leaving him with a reduced capacity to find work, he only found out when he tried to secure a contract elsewhere. I think he won about 3k which isn't much considering.
            Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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              #7
              Originally posted by pleomax View Post
              Ok i am 5/6 through my contract and called the DVA yesterday to check the level of my clearance to be told that I dont exsist. I signed the OSA and filled out the paperwork when i arrived on site last november.

              Now should i show up if security clearance is still being processed or have the client co taken a chance and not got me SC'd?

              Before you ask yes I should have security clerance for the type of info that passes by my desk/eyes!

              Pleomax

              Similar thing happened to me - except I was still being escorted. I suspect that it's their way of meeting the SLA targets - if you say you've been waiting months they "lose" your stuff so the clock starts again. I'd just keep my head down and hope no-one notices.

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                #8
                Reading all this it's not suprising that KGB had all it wanted from this country...

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by AtW View Post
                  Reading all this it's not suprising that KGB had all it wanted from this country...
                  You are right - in between the communist sympathisers and the hideous crapness of the admin folk it isn't a surprise.

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                    #10
                    I had a three month secure contract. Clearance came through three days into the first extension...
                    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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