Dallas County Sheriff-Texas interview questions

Applied online through their website. Received a call from their office. Spoke to them about a few things and then set up a time to come in and get a medical evaluation. Passed that, then setup an appointment for psych evaluation. The psych evaluation took about 1.5 hours. Passed that, set up an appointment for fingerprinting through IDENTIGO. Following that, met with the background investigator at the office. Had new hire paperwork to fill out and TCOLE application. At this time, the investigator asked me a job history related question, to which I answered truthfully. The investigator then said that he wasn’t aware of that certain issue, (which was disclosed to the psychologist and in the Personal History Statement that the investigator requested. So clearly, they didn’t go through the PHS.) The investigator stated that I would’ve been hired right then and there if it wasn’t for that issue. Said he had to run it by the Sergeant. Few days later, received the rejection notice.

Interview was easy, basically your average interview questions. Took a polygraph, did my physical, filled out 34+ page background information, signed contingent offer that was SUPPOSED to end in an offer pending successful background check. Everything was fine. HOWEVER, after I finished my ENTIRE process, I asked the investigator when I would hear something back to which he responded I should hear something back that Friday (2 days later). Friday came, nothing. That next week, I emailed to see if I was still being considered to which he replied "I should know something soon". 3 weeks later (a total of four weeks after I'd finished everything), I email to see where my application stood, and my response was, "I thought someone would’ve informed you by now, but the command staff selected another applicant". Like, what? WHO is the SOMEBODY that was supposed to inform me when YOU were the one I was communicating with the entire time? I felt the need to put all of this because this says a LOT about their communication with supposedly new hires. In retrospect, I felt that the polygraph was pretty excessive for this position, and for a pay of up to $20/hr, I'm not quite sure if the process is worth the pay.