Congrats! And thank you, best of luck to you as well. Stay safe out there.

Sounds a lot like my first one. I was positive I’d failed even though I had told the truth the entire time.

I am consistently amazed when LE takes an adversarial relationship with their recruits.

She probably thought you were using countermeasures. If I were to guess I’d say your doubt/conscience about stealing/theft from an employer screwed you, which is why she kept grilling you on it. To be honest, doesn’t look good, but who knows.

Had a friend get DQ'd for 2 years for "instituting countermeasures" during his polygraph. I've known the kid my entire life and never met somebody whose lived a more straight and narrow life. Never once drank underage, never even experimented with drugs, and not even as much as a speeding ticket on his driving record.

I did

Clench your bowels or press your foot into a tack in your shoe during the control/baselining questions and control your breathing during the real session.

Mike

I imagine this is hugely dependent on the agency. For my agency it took me just shy of three years from application to employment offer, so after my polygraph I didn’t hear anything from anyone for several months until I was invited back for the next step in the process. Took my partner six years so I feel lucky LOL.

Something to hide????


Just be honest.  They are looking more for honesty than normal people doing normal things...  I smoked pot a couple times, tried mushrooms once, drank like a fish in my college years, etc.  They are more making sure you are honest than anything else.  If you lie, you are screwed.

Complete garbage science along with the “great value version” they call the cvsa.

As someone above said it serves only to create an adversarial relationship with recruits.  Agencies that employ it and treat its “results” as gospel are likely the same ones wondering why they can’t get a steady flow of decent candidates.  

The idea that agencies treat it as a pass fail bottleneck when it isn’t generally court admissible is a good example of a major issue in modern hiring and recruitment.

It’s pretty much the rule that the examiners are people that are just straight up dicks rejected from the irs and get off on the petty amount of power they wield and love to swear up and down about how good they are and the machine is infallible.  

For the record I passed the only one I ever took although the cvsa I took spat out 3 different results each time I took it back to back to back.  Real accuracy there lol.

At my one agency that used it I frequently inquired about how many days I would get on the beach for drinking a gallon of lemonade and watering the dedicated laptop.

I highly recommend going in like a smart ass. Argue as much as possible. Never just answer yes or no with sexual questions, go into great details.

Jeezus! I say fuck the polygraph and take the firefighter exam!

Unless you live somewhere, where even the FD has a poly....its a stupid test used by many places still.

It's like GD but more specific.  A bunch of know it alls that know nothing........