Didn't even read anything in this thread. I'm assuming someone looked at your resume, saw you don't know how to use the space key and now someone is butthurt about something.
So you were going to Houston without another job lined up? Or was it a transfer from same company. I would leave both on truthfully and put the full amount of time your side business has been operational. Even if it overlaps, you can say that your side business picked up and you wanted to focus more on it plus whatever reason you moved to Houston for. I doubt they will call your employer for reference other than to confirm dates you were employed. Let that be a lesson for cash transactions too. Take a picture of the receipts and then send it to yourself over email for timed verification.
Okay just found the answer to my question. If anyone is interested out of curiosity, here it is. How do employers verify work history? There is a common misconception that there is some kind of public database that shows your entire work history and that employers can look it up. This is not the case – for the most part, when employers verify your work history, they verify that the information you told them about your work history is accurate. Employers usually have no way of finding out where you worked if you don’t tell them. When employers verify employment, the only thing they verify are the dates, names, and positions of employers that you have told them about – and all they do is simply call up the employer with the phone numbers you gave them! Employers can’t see your Past Employment! Part of the confusion may come from the fact that when you apply for a job, you give them your social security number, and most employers run what they call “social security trace” to see where you have lived in the past (and then, they search the county records of those places). This social security trace is not coming from the Social Security Administration or the IRS (your information there is private), it is likely coming from your credit history (anytime you’ve had a credit card, or ordered cable tv or a phone they have recorded the address that you reported and reported it to the credit reporting agencies). There is no database of your past earnings, or positions, at least today. So......I'm leaving it off
I would leave it off. With that said, i work in Loss Prevention myself, and if you were fired for theft there is a possibility they may put your name in a system retailers use called "Esteem". It's a database that retailers can use when prescreening applicants to see if they were ever fired for theft. Not every incident is reported and given your story i highly doubt that's the case. I believe your employer has to tell you if they plan on doing so as well. Not trying to scare you but just wanted to put that out there. Here's a article on it if you're bored. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/business/retailers-use-databases-to-track-worker-thefts.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Can you get caught if you have a cousin who has a fairly successful business and you say you've worked for them in your resume? I have a bunch of friends who did this a few years ago when they were just starting out. I feel that it's cheating, but their cousin would play along, so it's difficult to prove. Also plenty of people I know list their buddies from their previous jobs as reference. I assume everyone does this. Also non of my previous bosses have ever been contacted by future employers, so I assumed most companies won't bother checking if your interview went well.
