Security Clearance...DH'S company screwed his up!

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Anonymous wrote:He was on the phone screaming today. Somehow his company didn't do something they were supposed to do after his background investigation came back. They didn't touch it for a year and it got pulled.

It all got discovered because he was supposed to go on a contract that was tssci and fso calls and says he has no clearance. None!!

So how long will this cluster fuck take to get cleared all over again? He's held his clearance for 15 years at various levels poly on down.

How are things now adays? Should he pick up an application at Home depot? Year, 2 year wait?

His company owes him a bench job until he gets cleared again. They messed up, big time.

The security person at my company was notoriously awful - and was terrible about updating you on where you stood. I vividly remembered being in the re-investigation phase when we lost a contract. I called my company's security office and am still waiting on a call. That was 6 years ago. I was able to find out through the agency that I was working for that my reinvestigation had been processed and was done MONTHS before that.

This should be a wake up call for his company. I'm sorry, OP.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Good luck with that.

If that's funny, you work for the wrong company.

Tell us which company would pay for a year of bench time while someone gets a clearance.

That the error was on their part? Maybe it would be a problem for you, but you'd best believe they would find me something to do while they straightened it out. Some BD, some proposal work, something.

Again, tell us what company that would hold someone for a year in a bench position.

It sounds like you're posturing...

[Anonymous]

That sucks OP. But he definitely should talk to his company about some bench time or some non-clearance work. My company messed up my re-investigation and I had to start almost from scratch. Luckily, they owned up to the mistake and they were able to contract me out to another vendor doing non-clearance work.

As far as the screaming...I think people making that an issue have probably not gone through the process. Sure, in a perfect world, everyone would be nice and forgiving. But their screwup may likely put OP's DH out of work for a few months. Let me make a dumb error that puts you out of work for up to a year and lets' see how you take it.

[Anonymous]

OP here.

If you are worried about my DH'S screaming, don't be. The FSO got it worse from their COO today and will probably be the one fired. Apparently my DH was bid key and this has caused a huge uproar. My DH has a great relationship with the customer and his company is afraid they kick off this contract looking like fools.

[Anonymous]

Can he get provisional clearance? My DH was granted provisional in couple weeks and started working, it took over a year for TS. At his agency is all about how much they want you. BUT this is not DOD or TSCI work, so there might be less tight controls.

[Anonymous]

If the company is big enough they can find some uncleared position to put him on or at the least put him on proposal work while the clearance is straightened out. I don't think they'd put him on "pure" overhead, but if the screwup is the company's fault, then the company might have him work at a more junior position or find some place to have him camp out while the re-clearance goes through.