Instant Coffee Sucks!

What a great idea… heat up a cup of water in a microwave, or better yet, fill your cup with hot water directly from the water cooler/heater in your office break-room. Now, just add a couple of teaspoons of dirt that smells like coffee to your water and voila… a 20 second solution for your morning wake up routine. There was a time when the big coffee brands thought their newly introduced “instant” products would become the future of the industry. Boy, were they ever wrong! Let’s face it, they should just call it what it is; “a coffee flavored drink.”

It is no secret that we are all in a hurry now days and timesaving products are very enticing. But when it comes to coffee, most of us are willing to take the time to brew a pot of the good stuff vs. settling for a cup of instant nastiness. In fact, most of us go out of our way to stop by the local coffee shop and wait in line for a cup of gourmet coffee and eagerly pay six bucks for it! We splurge sometimes and buy sophisticated contraptions that can turn whole coffee beans into amazing, fresh brewed coffee right in our own kitchens. Sure, it costs a little more and takes a little more time… but it is so worth it.

We can all learn a great lesson from the coffee industry; instant products may have their place in the market, but they are never better than the real thing. In most cases they aren’t even adequate. This “instant product” mentality is plaguing the background check industry with the internet full of insufficient, “background check flavored databases.” We are all exposing ourselves and our families to people we know nothing about every single day. When a repair person comes to perform service on an appliance in your home, do you know that his company properly screened him for past criminal history? When you drop your kids off at practice, how much do you really know about the coach? How can you protect yourself and your loved ones from becoming a victim of a crime.

Remember what we learned from instant coffee? When it comes to your safety, it is important to make the extra effort required to enjoy the real-thing. An instant background check is merely a database search of incomplete and inaccurate data. They are easy for criminals to fool by simply providing a small piece of misinformation. Change a middle initial, tweak the date of birth or throw one wrong digit into a social security number and they are home free. The solution is the same as for coffee, simply pay a little more and take the necessary time to complete an investigative background check. True investigative screening requires licensed investigators to personally take the necessary steps to verify an applicant’s identity and then go into all relevant courts to obtain live data directly from the source.

Everyone deserves to know who is coming into their homes and businesses or who is coaching their child. Extra peace of mind comes with knowing who you are dealing with, so make sure to hire only crime free individuals… you might even enjoy your coffee more.