John Johnson

Whatever filters you put in, it won’t matter. So, if you key in “Registered Nurse” or “RN” in your own city and limit the results to a 50-mile radius, the Monster app will still give you results for cities 100 miles away (and for every LPN and Nurse Practitioner job as well). However, if you cut down on the distance radius — say to 20 miles — you’ll significantly cut down on the number of posted jobs, and they’ll still be irrelevant. In one recent search, I literally got only 7 listed jobs, but all were Nurse Practitioner vacancies instead of RN… and there’s a big difference.

Checking on this company after my own horrible experiences, I wasn’t surprised to find that it is popular specifically because it costs less for client companies than most of their competition. However, bottom-dollar usually comes with bottom-of-the barrel quality, and companies need to recognize that before signing on with Sterling. — In my recent experience with two of their service sites for background checks and information verification, I found that accurate data entry is nowhere near the Sterling strengths, as they’ll literally list a college course completion as being 5 years before you even started attendance. Or past employers will be listed with dates up to TWENTY YEARS off! Trying to enter or correct info is a nightmare, with site connectivity/ operation simply dropping if you hit the “Next” tab at the bottom of page. And, as if their site being slower than dial-up internet weren’t bad enough, you may have to enter and re-enter the SAME data 6 or 7 times before it finally saves.
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Oh, and customer service? There is none, as everything is automated, including their listed phone support service. You’re looking at a minimum of two days response, usually just in the form of a new link sent for your info entry process. (Yes, their site drops you — only on 2-3 pages into their 22-page required process — and then you can’t automatically get back into it.) So, the “twenty minutes” their site says it will take at the start is really more like 8 hours of the most frustrating and slow website design you’ll ever encounter. Literally, it takes longer to finish their required online data entry than it takes for them to collect your background results… which will be wrong because you couldn’t fully enter or edit your info on time.
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And, it doesn't get any better after that, as the rest of the Sterling processes on other sites/ links will also be bad. Like where you’re asked to enter citizenship, you won’t find the United States or the United Kingdom among their options. Just entering a telephone number, finding your country code is difficult, and then you have to enter the area and the actual telephone number all in separate (slow) data boxes. And, OMG, just avoid entering dates if you can, because the site won’t let you just TYPE a date, instead giving a calendar for the current month… and making you go backwards month-by-month to provide a date.
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Think about that. You going to enter your 30-year old wife’s date-of-birth in such a system?
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Absolutely, the worst system I’ve ever seen… and I been around since before the internet.
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Absolutely the worst online background check experience ever, with tremendous lag times from each required block to the next, literally worse than old-time phone internet. Most of the info that I should have simply been “checking” was wrong, off by as much as 20 years. If First Advantage or their parent company Sterling says it will take 20 minutes to complete a single page in their 22-page process, expect it to take hours. My first try, the site connection just buffered and dropped about 3 pages… and their completely automated system didn’t allow me to contact anyone to resume or restart the process, just pressing on with 19 pages of blank info.

I’ve had Max for years now, and it’s pretty much the worst platform out there, especially for series programs. Where Netflix and Hulu and Paramount are generally easy to go back in a series to watch an episode you missed, Max is despicable, either shutting down (to main Roku screen) or giving an error message or just locking you on a loop page for 5 minutes (I’d attach a photo if I could). There are programs I love, but I’d literally rather pay for them than deal with Max, so I go months without touching it just because it’s so infuriating to deal with.

Hardest laptops to work with I've ever seen. Seemingly simple tasks, like moving files from desktop to folder, are irritatingly difficult and inconsistent (opening files instead of moving them, even if your settings require a double-click to open). Regular, common functions are hard to work with, which is why they are constantly selling for less than HP laptops with lower RAM/ memory/ processor speed. HP is just easier to work with, so they can charge more. It simply should not require a special class for longtime computer users to learn how to effectively use a Dell.

No instructions at all. Only thing in the box besides the device and accessories is a 4x5 sheet of paper with URL code, which takes you to a RedgeFit app… that only tries to SELL you the workouts that they claimed as free on the ad and the slip of paper. — RedgeFit is a scan, and customers have to make their own vids and PDF exercise lists to guide each other.