> along with a healthy dose of racism Er, when is racism ever healthy?
It means a significant amount of racism.
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Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#92Isn't yet another case that startup is trying to fix systematic screwup of law in the USA? In USA once you got criminal record, by default it stays for rest of life with you. Implications of that may be even more severe than actual punishment. On the other hand in most of the European countries criminal records are limited and after X years they disappear and you can't legally discriminate based on that. Some ppl wil…
Even though this shouldn't be a problem (in that I agree that this is a policy issue in a lot of ways) I think that this could create more momentum for a fix by bringing this issue to light. They could potentially put themselves out of business (eventually, not any time soon) by de-stigmatizing a criminal record.
amen, my brother (or sister)
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it probably will not dissuade people all that effectively. That logic is part of the problem.
Well if nothing can be done to dissuade people from criminality we might as well not bother having a criminal justice system and put up with it.
The best way to dissuade people from criminal behaviors (in my opinion) is to make the impetus for the behaviors less attractive.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#94> along with a healthy dose of racism Er, when is racism ever healthy?
good point. never.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#95How come 1 in 3 adults in the USA have a criminal record?
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#96One of the first things I came across was "Police Officer" in Tallahassee, FL. It's an external link. Part of the description even says: "Have no convictions for any felony, perjury, false statement, or domestic violence. No DUI convictions past ten years. Other arrest histories are reviewed on a case-by-case basis." I love the idea, but it needs a bit more work.
Understood. thanks for letting us know. we're on it.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#97I very much like what you're doing for those of us who've made wrong choices in the past. However, I am a little bit concerned what drives a company to go to a site -especially made for those people- looking for future employees.
The hardest workers are people who are (re)building their lives from nothing... Largely immigrants and ex-cons.
In my experience, that's a very true observation
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#98quick FYI, Your og:image is broken because I just tried sharing your site on facebook and all I saw were logos from other companies. When I go directly to the image you set in your og:image meta tag I get an error response
https://jobboardhq.blob.core.windows.net/assets/prod/2ttp/lo...
here's a direct link to FB's open graph debugger with your site already loaded into it: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=https...
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#99Business wise: what make a company want to hire someone with a criminal record?
They are cheaper?
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#100"Richard Bronson" is an awesome name for this. It has real gravitas.
lol Thank you