Re:it's different in non-US places (Score 1)

I went to work for a US based company (in the UK) a couple of years ago - as they were an organisation rather than a "real" company their checks and balances procedures were just plain silly (in my eyes anyway) a total of 7 interviews, meetings with directors who came out from the US just to interview me... etc. They even carried out background checks to my first job in NZ before I had moved to the UK over 7 years ago! To put this in perspective - I moved to the UK weeks before my 18th birthday to make sure I got my visa. They checked my performance with a company I was doing work placement with while I was 17. I left them a year later as I couldn't handle the level of beaurocracy. Any expenses over 100 US dollars went to the states for approval and even our UK based directors had no autonomy. On the other hand - under UK disclosure laws I found out more about my credit history than I ever knew (or wanted to know!) But because promotions, pay scaling, accepted expenses, phones, travel and the like were all set up in advance I was in a better position there than I am right now - I've been promoted to a whole new level, and don't have any guarentees of performance bonuses and the like. Very depressing - think I need to find a new job