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Most felons I know work low wage jobs in warehouses or under the table construction/day labor.
Is that the same with white collar felons? You think all those elite boys in upper management who live in the million dollar homes who look down on the little people are completely clean? How do they get I'm or is it usually from daddy or some connection?
Is that the same with white collar felons? You think all those elite boys in upper management who live in the million dollar homes who look down on the little people are completely clean? How do they get I'm or is it usually from daddy or some connection?
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Sadly felons exist on both ends of economic spectrum.
JetJockey, I think you reporting those guys is sorry and pathetic for a couple of reasons. 1, you don't do those guys taxes. Even if you've somehow seen their tax returns, I still don't condone reporting them. Yea, I pay my taxes, but what do my taxes pay for? Ridiculous and outrageous politician salaries? I have no problems with people trying to get over. It's ridiculous. I may have to pay taxes, but I won't smile and be happy about it like some mindless sheep.
Background checks prove jack squat about the integrity of someone. It's even more absurd not to hire someone over credit. I don't have great credit, but it's never kept me from getting a job. But to think there are those out there who say they won't hire someone becuase of bad credit, just goes to show how brainwashed some people are.
For proof, just look at the Arizona cop who pulled a gun on a store clerk. Cops go through extensive background checks. Yet we hear stories like this frequently.
It's sucks that people who have been convicted of crimes are automatically denied employment. Yet people wonder why they go back to crime. How can they turn their life around after they have served their time if they can't work? Ridiculous.
I am 24 and have a violent felony. Ass. To robbery and false imprisonment. I took the rap for an x boyfriend. Yes I was young and stupid and had no idea what I was getting myself into.I went to prison at the age of 18 and just got out last year at the age of 23. I am not going to lie it has been really hard for me. I had no idea how this decision I made in my life would mess it up forever. I almost committed suicide because I couldn't find a job but instead I called out to god for help. After that I got hired at Wendy's. It's not the best job in the world but it's something. I think God for my job but I also don't wanna be working at Wendy's for the rest of my life. I am currently looking for a better job but it's very hard. But I trust God something will come through. I refuse to give up and feel sorry for myself. I made a mistake, paid my dues and change my life. I will not give up hope.
That so bull**** that a company won't hire a violent felon. I just punched someone ONCE because I was paranoid and being followed around and harassed. I still have gotten good jobs at good companies that didn't check if you had a felony. But one company, Schlumberger - I had to lie that I didn't have one and the recruiter for me lied too. So sometimes you just gotta lie... Because companies too unfairly discriminate against felons.
There are even online websites for felons to get a job but they are useless as I think companies just use them to blacklist felon applicants and never hire from there... So I don't even touch these job listings.
I go nationwide for job hunts, but right now I just focused on a job in Houston then in Chicago only after I moved. I'm gonna write my IL Gov for a Pardon of my felony and get my Psychiatrist and Priest to pitch in for me...
In some places, like Houston - a felon can't even get a good Apt because almost all Apt complexes do background checks.
In Portland, almost all of the poor and almost all of the felons are concentrating on the outer east side while the rest of the city gentrifies, because that's the only place landlords will accept them. You can literally watch the creation of a ghetto.
As a society, we seem to prohibit criminal rehabilitation.
With the labor market the way it is, employers can be more selective. No matter how truly rehabilitated someone is or is not, criminality is probably the easiest factor to disqualify them on.
Landlords also prohibit felons in many cases. The ones that don't are often in high crime areas or have other factors that could lead to recidivism.
IMO, if you serve your time, you should get a clean slate to rebuild your life upon release. Society discourages that and makes a permanent underclass of repeat criminals.
If a person serves his time and changes his life around, the felony should be taken off his record. If it isn't, they might as well just keep him in prison because he won't have much of a life outside of it.
I know there are quite a few felons working as roughnecks. It's hard ass work, pays well, and is incredibly dangerous.
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