Getting a Job

[longearedfriend]

sorry to hear about that brother

this is a part of the reason why I put strain on my mind and body during all my years of smoking/helping people (paranoia)

a criminal record can really put a dent in your life

 

[nycjb]

learn to trade options

 

[hup234]

learn to trade opium

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[Smoke-Trees]

First off I like your picture with kitty and gun, if worst comes to worst sounds like you are doing well in college, grow legal plants I grow tomato plants and sell them. Fun and good money. Best wishes!

 

[stc9357]

Applied for 3 more mass market stores not likely but got to do it.

 

[Herbophile]

Good luck!

This stuff really pisses me off. Back when I got my first job there were no criminal checks for most jobs and barely anybody drug tested. Boy has the world changed and surely not for the better.

 

[crazybear]

jobs suck. except blow jobs. no those suck too now that i think about it.

It just depends if you are on the receiving end or giving end, don't suck if your getting one!!!!!!!!

 

[stc9357]

Got an interview for Harri Teeter and they already know my record so good luck to me. The lord helps those who help themselves.

 

[NOKUY]

haven't you and i discussed this bro?

commercial crabber

we are considering the purchase of a smaller one.....

 

[Still Invisible]

Change your name.

 

[avant gardener]

Just cold called all the landscaping companies in my area, will be writing to all the electrical companies to see if I can be hired as an helper for little or no pay just for experience.

i would humbly suggest that you not work for anyone for free who is profiting off of the enterprise. when you do that, you're taking money out of the pocket of another working person by giving away your labor. that's exactly the sort of thing that perpetuates the system of wage slavery that holds so many of us down. this goes double for those who have convictions. a criminal record makes you a second class citizen in the most literal sense of the word. and what's more, it's perfectly legal.

depending on where you live, trade unions may be a good place to look. i earned my card by getting hired on at shops the union wanted to organize. after getting them voted in at a couple places (and getting into fights with foremen on a couple other jobs) i was in. there's also apprenticeships if you're not down for organizing. this might not help you though. if you've got harris teeter and you're not in MD or DE, you're in a right-to-work state (which is just a slick way of saying the bosses can fuck you as hard as they like) so the unions have no clout there.

if all else fails, you could always plant a garden. just a thought.

 

[jd4083]

Got an interview for Harri Teeter and they already know my record so good luck to me. The lord helps those who help themselves.

Nothing wrong with that man. Grin and bear it. At least you're actively looking for a job instead of sitting back pissing and moaning looking for a handout like so many others.

I've been there...never been in trouble with the law, but a similar situation. When the economy took a turn for the worst I lost a high-paying job with excellent benefits as a district supervisor for a restaurant franchise in Florida and had to move back to NC. The only job I could get for the first few months in that tiny ass town was working for Lowe's Foods (grocery store). I literally went from having 85+ people working under me and driving a company car with a company phone and more money than I knew how to spend...to bagging cat food for little old ladies and cleaning out toilet stalls.

And ya know what? I learned a lot about some fucking humility from that job, and it knocked me right off my cocky little pedestal. Wouldn't go back and change a thing.

anyways, best of luck

 

[jd4083]

Change your name.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to sign an affidavit stating that you are not changing your name to avoid any debts or legal proceedings, which does nothing at all in the long run because you are still "in the system"?

 

[mpd]

Ssssshhh. You are blowing someone's bubble.

 

[stc9357]

haven't you and i discussed this bro?

commercial crabber

we are considering the purchase of a smaller one.....



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I'm so broke I can't even afford a trip to alaska Nokuy.

 

[Still Invisible]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to sign an affidavit stating that you are not changing your name to avoid any debts or legal proceedings, which does nothing at all in the long run because you are still "in the system"?

Well if they do a criminal background check his conviction will not show up; got to go all the way though and change drivers licence, bank accounts etc. to new name.
But if the cops fingerprint him in relation to a new charge then their computer will match his prints with his old name.
You can also get false ID, not forgerys but real ID with your photo on it but with a different name. I did it once but since then there has been an outcry about identity theft and they have tightened up on it so it would be a lot harder now I imagine.
Also got to check with the Dept. that does the name changes whether they pass the new name onto the cops. They didn't used to do that here but just recently they have.

 

[SOWtheSEED]

I smoke weed so I cant work..

 

[Yes4Prop215]

i have a minor criminal history, but its enough to mess up my chances of ever getting a decent job..

however i look at like a blessing, because FUCK working for someone else....it forced me to be my own CEO...i gotta make my own ventures and business agreements. self hemployed..

 

[Still Invisible]

i have a minor criminal history, but its enough to mess up my chances of ever getting a decent job..

Minor things should not result in a criminal record, there's not need to keep punishing people once they have paid the fine.
A criminal record punishes people for the rest of their life, a punishment much greater than that that should be imposed for the offence.

 

[Herbophile]

Minor things should not result in a criminal record, there's not need to keep punishing people once they have paid the fine.
A criminal record punishes people for the rest of their life, a punishment much greater than that that should be imposed for the offence.

So true but this is the crappy system we are all forced to deal with.

This thread spurred me to do some more research on getting a record expunged. It turns out it's almost irrelevant to do so. From what I gather it only clears up the court records but your record lives on at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension which is where the majority of employers do there criminal background search at. It takes an act of god to get that cleared up.

I had an incident my senior year of high school but I was an adult. A felony. I was lucky enough to get a stay of imposition that at least dropped it down to a misdemeanor on my permanent record.