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Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by imustadmit »

stordoff wrote: post #112
codingdave wrote: post #29

It is completely unfair for felons to be shut out of jobs because of non-violent past mistakes that are ancient history and would not re-occur. On the other hand, we have no idea who made this page. If they want to be taken seriously and given a chance, they need to be transparent enough to at least tell us who they are, and let us make our own decision on working with them.

And violent past mistakes up to a point. I know someone who punched someone when they were both drunk and the other was harassing his wife, and ended up with a criminal conviction. Never been violent before, and not been violent since (it must be close to a decade ago at this point). It would be absurd if he was completely shut out of jobs due to that one mistake.

Exactly, people change over time and adapt their behaviour to new circumstances. Temporally, one can be a very different person.

Besides, any one of us could commit awful acts given the wrong environment. Stanley Milgram showed us all that much.

Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by DoreenMichele »

magic_beans wrote: post #120
DoreenMichele wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been sitting here wondering if the guy who made this website is a person of color that he couldn't get his felony downgraded and keeps being rejected after people learn of his crime of felony flashing -- which is only a felony because it's a second offense. The first offense is only a misdemeanor. (Watch that second step. It's a doozey.) I get that there's a slippery slope element here and no one wants to say…

The impulse to expose your genitals to a teenage girl is pretty mind-bogglingly disgusting. And it didn't just happen once. It happened TWICE. This man has 5 kids. How on earth would he feel if some grown man did that to one of his own children?

You are moving the goal posts here. He didn't do it to one of his own children. Obviously, that would be an incestuous act, which is far, far worse than flashing a stranger who is nearly an adult and potentially could be mistaken for an adult.

When I was 17, I was 5'9" tall and people absolutely mistook me for an adult at times. For that matter, at age 14, I was 5'7" and, while at the mall babysitting a 7 year old, was once asked if I wanted to sign up for a department store credit card.

I haven't seen the particulars of his crime. I don't even know if he knew her age before exposing himself or if he only learned of that in the course of the trial.

Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by [deleted] »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #116
_sdegutis wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well first of all I think regardless of whether it's a minor offense relative to other offenses, my crimes did a lot of real and possibly long-lasting damage to some teenage girls and their families. And I think the fact that when you google my name a bunch of newspaper articles come up with reiterate this and force it on the front of people's mind, that doesn't do me any favors. I've tried contacting those newspaper…

I appreciate that you have come to understand that any sex crime, no matter how minor, can do (and typically does) terrible psychological harm to the victim and anyone close to them. And you absolutely need to not ever do it again. But I'm a 52 year old woman who was molested and raped as a child and who spent years in therapy over that. I have read enormous amounts about what I would term human sexual morality and s…

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Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by Trundle »

Not in a position to hire you but I highly recommend contracting, or presenting as a one man dev agency. People treat signing up with Top Development Pty Ltd much differently to hiring Mr Potential Felon.

When myself and a friend were doing it for a while we were continuously amazed at just how trusting people were. No background information, credential checking, nothing. Just "here you go" and they hand over credentials to all of their core business and customer information to some guys they just met.

We were also charging $90 hour as people who didn't really know what they're doing. I understand you need money right now, but I definitely think this is a route you should consider in the future.

Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by magic_beans »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #122
magic_beans wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The impulse to expose your genitals to a teenage girl is pretty mind-bogglingly disgusting. And it didn't just happen once. It happened TWICE. This man has 5 kids. How on earth would he feel if some grown man did that to one of his own children?

You are moving the goal posts here. He didn't do it to one of his own children. Obviously, that would be an incestuous act, which is far, far worse than flashing a stranger who is nearly an adult and potentially could be mistaken for an adult. When I was 17, I was 5'9" tall and people absolutely mistook me for an adult at times. For that matter, at age 14, I was 5'7" and, while at the mall babysitting a 7 year old, w…

I didn't say that he exposed himself to his own children. I'm just surprised a father of so many children would be so tone-deaf to how a young girl might react to such repulsive behavior from an adult.

The most recent incident involved two 17 year olds, but his previous arrest was for exposing himself to a 15 year old. FIFTEEN. 15 year old girls don't look like grown women.

I get that sometimes teen girls look older than they are, but that doesn't make it remotely ok for a grown man to expose himself.

And I must say... I hardly believe this guy has only exposed himself to girls twice.

Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by DoreenMichele »

magic_beans wrote: post #125
DoreenMichele wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are moving the goal posts here. He didn't do it to one of his own children. Obviously, that would be an incestuous act, which is far, far worse than flashing a stranger who is nearly an adult and potentially could be mistaken for an adult. When I was 17, I was 5'9" tall and people absolutely mistook me for an adult at times. For that matter, at age 14, I was 5'7" and, while at the mall babysitting a 7 year old, w…

I didn't say that he exposed himself to his own children. I'm just surprised a father of so many children would be so tone-deaf to how a young girl might react to such repulsive behavior from an adult. The most recent incident involved two 17 year olds, but his previous arrest was for exposing himself to a 15 year old. FIFTEEN. 15 year old girls don't look like grown women. I get that sometimes teen girls look older…

15 year old girls don't look like grown women.

As stated above, I was being mistaken for an adult when I was a 14 year old girl.

You do not need to hire this man. You also don't need to shit all over his attempts to put his life back together.

He has stated that his therapist sees him as not at risk of reoffending.

Edit: I will add that I believe I have spoken to this same individual before and I politely chided him at that time because I felt he was being a butt and, no, was not reformed. He's not being a butt today, here, in this thread. I think he finally got the memo that sneering at societal mores is a good way to make sure you and your kids starve.

Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by goodJobWalrus »

some_account wrote: post #19

I would hire the guy if I needed something. I don't see why it matters if the guy used to be a felon previously. Is he going to be violent over some software specs? I very much doubt it.

I mean, you have no reason to suspect he was ever violent. On the other hand, if he flashes women at the office, they'll sue the company. If the company is well known, the press is going to get to that. Anyway, you have shit on your hands. If you are not the owner, just an employee in charge of recruiting, you may even lose your job. It is a bit risky.

But I don't see a problem with hiring the guy to work from home as a contractor.

Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by pliftkl »

RafiqM wrote: post #72

Have you considered applying for (remote) jobs outside of the US? At least in Europe background checks are very unusual, although with a unique name maybe even a simple Google search would "out" you :/ (I'm not saying you should be dishonest and lie about your conviction, but if they don't ask then no harm no foul)

Independently of the background checks that European companies might not do, any European government almost certainly knows that he's a felon and would bar entry. That would preclude showing up for an in person interview or ever showing up for a company event.

Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by magic_beans »

HackerThrow1337 wrote: post #62

That really sucks that you are having so much trouble! I technically have a felony non-violent drug possession charge on my record, but it hasn't caused me any problems since I switched to software from another field.I even got an entry-level position this year. I was never convicted (No Contest or something similar), am having to go through unsupervised probation (basically I am in big trouble if arrested again but…

Now THIS is a felony that is 100% forgivable. You really, truly did nothing wrong and I hope all is going well for you.

OP on the other hand...

Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

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Post by imustadmit »

cjbprime wrote: post #37
codingdave wrote: post #29

It is completely unfair for felons to be shut out of jobs because of non-violent past mistakes that are ancient history and would not re-occur. On the other hand, we have no idea who made this page. If they want to be taken seriously and given a chance, they need to be transparent enough to at least tell us who they are, and let us make our own decision on working with them.

I agree that we treat felons extremely poorly. But as a point of order, I don't think sexual assaults are (or should be) considered as non-violent.

Flashing your wanger at someone passing by isn't really sexual assault though.

I've been flashed by a drunk guy, I gave a surprised chuckle and walked away. My mum was flashed when some weirdo jumped into the back garden and started showing his stuff to her through the kitchen window; she chased him away with a sword.

Neither of us thought for one minute we'd been sexually assaulted, and these instances just became amusing stories. Unfortunately it seems that doing similar in the USA is no laughing matter.

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