Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
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Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
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Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#2Why don't wrongfully convicted people Sue for damages and use the lawsuit to get there records purged? I sure there is a reason why people don't in general I'm just not clear what exactly this reason is. Anyone in the know care to elucidate me?
Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#3I wonder if he could start his own consulting company?
Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#4Why don't wrongfully convicted people Sue for damages and use the lawsuit to get there records purged? I sure there is a reason why people don't in general I'm just not clear what exactly this reason is. Anyone in the know care to elucidate me?
Suing the government is not all that easy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unit...
Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#5Why is he failing background checks if he's never been non-wrongfully convicted? Genuinely curious to hear from anyone with experience on the employer side of this.
Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#6Why don't wrongfully convicted people Sue for damages and use the lawsuit to get there records purged? I sure there is a reason why people don't in general I'm just not clear what exactly this reason is. Anyone in the know care to elucidate me?
Poor people have trouble paying lawyers. Involuntarily homeless people tend to have more pressing issues than starting an extended legal action. Suing the state over a matter of principal is de facto if not de jure often amounts to little more than a luxury.
Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#7Why don't wrongfully convicted people Sue for damages and use the lawsuit to get there records purged? I sure there is a reason why people don't in general I'm just not clear what exactly this reason is. Anyone in the know care to elucidate me?
According to one of his comments, all the lawyers wanted upfront money to sue the city.
Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#8Is there anything we can do for him? I mean this is just nuts.
Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#9I wonder if he could start his own consulting company?
It comes with a lot of the same problems as getting hired by a company as an employee. Meeting with clients when you can't travel easily is a challenge. Living in a homeless shelter puts you on the schedule of the shelter (there are in and out times that are strictly enforced at most of them, if you aren't in by the curfew, you don't sleep in a bed that night), which conflicts with the erratic schedule of an IT contractor. You need a phone that is reliable, and the ability to take calls and emails at any time, which being homeless does not really allow; my friends who are homeless often live by day in coffee shops and libraries and by night in shelters if they're lucky enough to get a bed.
Also, though I don't like it, the reality is that black folks in IT are also facing subtle discrimination on a daily basis. Getting hired as a contractor often has none of the same protections that large companies have in place for people of color being hired as employees (government contractors are an exception in that the government has guidelines in place to help insure minorities are well-represented, but selling to the government is a whole other set of skills that he may not have, and may not be able to obtain given his circumstances). Among people of color (and women) that I've discussed it with, they tend to prefer applying for jobs and working jobs in major companies because the HR processes are designed to be less discriminatory. Small firms, even when they intend to not discriminate often make "culture fit" decisions that exclude women and minorities. He's also older. Smaller IT firms are infamous for hiring young and overlooking older candidates.
I live in an RV (I did it for four years, traveling full-time, and now I'm back to it after a couple years of stability), and I'm being reminded of all of the ways it makes a "normal life" difficult. And, I'm not dealing with the kind of stuff he is: I have a vehicle and money to travel, I have a phone and reliable Internet, I have a private home where I can have phone/skype conversations with co-workers, etc.
Getting out of homelessness is really tough, is what I'm trying to say, and being homeless makes a lot of things that are obvious solutions to problems for you and I much tougher when you don't have the stability and savings and such to fall back on that you or I have.
Re: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
#10Why is he failing background checks if he's never been non-wrongfully convicted? Genuinely curious to hear from anyone with experience on the employer side of this.
Likely the department of corrections number somehow coming up so it shows that he spent time in prison. Even if it shows he was exonerated, many people will sadly lose interest right then because they get a vibe the applicant is 'in with the wrong people'. The US is terribly cruel to people that have done prison time, regardless of whether or not they were supposed to be there.