Job Title: Druggy Beach Bum
From 1-2010 to 1-2012
Job responsiblities included scoring drugs at 4:00 AM, dodging local police, spotty diseased prostitues.
Don't know if you've seen it, but you should check out Century of the Self, then you've have the timeline and "hard data" your post is talking about. The whole mental manipulation is far worse than most can even imagine. I have actually used this film as the main reason I refuse to have cable TV installed...even if I'm not focusing the TV just the advertisements playing will affect me subconsciously. I refuse to allow myself to be influenced to buy a bunch of crap especially when I know I'm being manipulated to do it!
far better than my cat, who likes to find pipe cleaners and YELL at them like she's just brought home a mouse for her kittens. I use them holding various wires out of the way, and if I leave even a two-inch long piece she will carry it all over meowing at the top of her lungs. 3:00PM, 3:00 AM, whenever she finds it.
From what I've seen, the PI investigation is almost "standard", almost every person is followed and taped for every worker's comp claim that might go over a thousand dollars. A good friend of mine did that kind of work for awhile; he sat in a van for hours at a time waiting to film someone; very tedious and boring PLUS you can't jump out for a pee break so...he finally had to give up the job after getting too many traffic tickets from running red lights, speeding, etc, chasing people around. The best scammer he busted was a "disabled" hockey player who had moved down from another state and was playing here again, he got him to sign a pennant and presented it (along with film of him on the ice playing) in court. A gf of mine was filmed too but she really was injured but it was SUPER FREAKY to see film of me carrying in groceries, even when we knew during that time we might be filmed.
What would help level the "playing field" would be to have a REAL sub-contracting system. Very few companies will hire people under i-9, so none are really "contractors" in the end. So not only is there a huge "permanent subclass" who are considered corporate second-class citizens, they cannot even reap the real benefits of being a contractor. Huge Corp Inc might be paying $100 an hour for a help desk tech, but after 3-4+ layers of sub-contractors the tech ends up making $10-$15 for no additional benefits, actually usually far less the other employees who basically are costing the same amount.
The only real barrier I could find (other than corps just not wanting to work outsider their already established ecosystem) is Errors and Omissions insurance, Worker's Comp, etc. Even getting a sales tax license and an LLC / INC is pretty trivial if the end result is going from $10/hr to $50-$100hr. Something like this could be a huge economic boom in the US and would result in hundreds, if not thousands of new small businesses opening up over night. They would probably pay MORE taxes as the huge sub-contracting corps are often huge tax-dodgers as well. This would also stimulate the "exchanges" of the ACA putting thousands of decent-paying i-9 employees on the exchanges. Maybe this should be submitted to Congress under some catchy title like the "Economic Electronic Stimulation Act" or EESA. A combination of H1-B visa re-regulation, overseas contracting policy that really covers the IT industry, and some economic funding for start-ups that will help IT people transition from working for someone to working for themselves would re-invigorate our country like the Tesla / Edison "inventor" days.
you'd never even get into the classes needed for a pharm tech lol. But a drug conviction like you say is probably one of the easiest to explain; you can easily show a paper trail of rehabilitation to satisfy HR. You might have some issues being a PC tech at a hospital; but knowing their hiring practices here locally and all the nurses also abusing (and getting busted) for stealing meds it seems it might actually help get a job there.
Theft is really the board line. But if you can sum up the felony in a sentence or two, laugh it off, then often you can blow right past the HR drone's shields LOL. The Morgan Freeman line off "Universe" always works..."when I was a boy"..."I did this bad thing with XYZ". Trick the drones into "ignore" mode, confuse them with messy paperwork that only shows up AFTER you've already got a tentative offer...
I know people who have been in similar situations. Burglary II, felony in 1995. Stole a bunch of equipment out of Bell yards, got busted. At first, it was very difficult. Going through contracting companies was the only option. Manpower, CDI, Staffmark...I know Manpower Professional will still put you out for contracts even with a more recent felony, they ONLY tell the client IF specifically asked. Be totally honest with these contracting companies, they will play the HR game for "your side" and after a few short job's they seem to not care once you've proven yourself.
Ironically reminding the contracting companies about the felony can firm up trust, one friend was put up at a Capital One call center via Manpower so they called their rep and told them "It's in my application, I can't pass a fingerprint check" so they just replaced him, still paid him AND found another position. But it takes time. Most applications at most companies I've seen will only check 7 years back. The form might say seven, ten, or whatever years...or might say "Ever". But the actual check itself only goes back seven. Just carefully read the forms, eventually you'll find various places that you can legally avoid having to put it down. Often places will have it on the paper work but never actually read it; scribbling it on the lines where it's barely legible MIGHT have worked...yet many companies never actually read over all 20-50 pages of paper work outside the I-9 / w-2 stuff.
The advice about "your own company" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, even just as something to fill in employment gaps in your resume. Even if it's only working on Hypervisor in your home lab, re-branding yourself is crucial. When all my friends where starting out in IT, we often had a "default" company we would cover for each other with for work references since we actually did know each other's capabilities. Basically put the type of work you WANT in the "experience" of your own business, tell people it's your i-9 contracting company...as long as you actually know how to perform what you wrote down (or can learn fast) you CAN recover.
Dude, it's a LONG HARD ROAD. There might be times your working at fast food, remembering the days of your company laptop. You might have to work call centers for awhile; some have more "technical" positions too. You just have to wait for the heat to cool off, pay off all your fines, and work what ever shit you can until you get to the 7 year mark. Stay clean, no more charges, keep all your ID's up to date and a bank account open. Most importantly, GET REAL HELP if there is a reason behind the felony. People will forgive you if you really do try to fix whatever behavior lead to the felony...if it's something like that but TFA doesn't really say. DUI, go to ALL the treatment courses, get into and STAY in AA or SOS or something; show the HR people you've got a handle on what lead you down the road of crime. I've seen MANY people with undiagnosed ADD get into tons of "stupid" legal trouble; a few of them got adderal treatment along with behavioral therapy and are back in the "corporate world". They really did analyze themselves and make a change; since the felony often points to a deeper problem internally you've got to FIX that if you want to be accepted back into civil society.
Good luck, and godspeed. You'll need it, and you'll need the social support of your friends. Eventually you might turn the felony around into positive PR, aka street cred!
I still have a problem with that. No amount of weed will keep someone from "not feeling" four gunshot wounds unless it was laced. And the toxicology only showed THC.
Never heard of "compression"? I'm not surprised when I see comments like this on some newspaper forum, but/.? I've got over 300 days of video in about 2TB.
that's why it's FAR better for all geeks to spend up and get a "business account". No caps, not much monitoring, 24x7 support, hour-based refunds during outages, etc.
Cox has actually gone the opposite way of what the RIAA want. About 10 years ago, we got a temporary shut-off from someone (not me!) downloading a movie (ok, yeah, it was me) but as soon as we said "it's gone" the net came back up. Then again about 3 years ago (different account, still Cox), "someone" was downloading The Colbert Report BUT all Cox did is send a letter, saying something about "you have a business account so yes you can legally share your wifi BUT someone downloaded this" but nothing happened, I called them and they told me their "current" policy towards business accounts basically puts my business in the "common carrier" class or such. So Cox has actively moved AWAY from cutting off the net.
Biosphere II's main failure was not waiting until the concrete had completely cured before sealing it off resulting in too much CO2 for the "self regulating" system to handle.
Your in the UK, that's the problem. The UK's "freedom of speech" law is far more complicated than the US's. They have a "negative right" under Common Law, seems like a list of more what you can do as opposed to what you can't. Show's the origin comes from the monarchy having absolute power and slowly dolling out rights as opposed to the US's that started out almost absolute and has slowly been restricted.
It's quite possible the hotel might have recourse to do this under the UK's defamation laws. It's very complicated, probably involving the phase of the moon and such from the 1500's.
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as long as you don't list that on your resume...
Job Title: Druggy Beach Bum
From 1-2010 to 1-2012
Job responsiblities included scoring drugs at 4:00 AM, dodging local police, spotty diseased prostitues.
John Mcafee, is that you?
he sounds PERFECT for my old help desk job.
Don't know if you've seen it, but you should check out Century of the Self, then you've have the timeline and "hard data" your post is talking about. The whole mental manipulation is far worse than most can even imagine. I have actually used this film as the main reason I refuse to have cable TV installed...even if I'm not focusing the TV just the advertisements playing will affect me subconsciously. I refuse to allow myself to be influenced to buy a bunch of crap especially when I know I'm being manipulated to do it!
FlashBlock for the flash ads works great.
far better than my cat, who likes to find pipe cleaners and YELL at them like she's just brought home a mouse for her kittens. I use them holding various wires out of the way, and if I leave even a two-inch long piece she will carry it all over meowing at the top of her lungs. 3:00PM, 3:00 AM, whenever she finds it.
Get another cat, then they'll fight over the tree.
From what I've seen, the PI investigation is almost "standard", almost every person is followed and taped for every worker's comp claim that might go over a thousand dollars. A good friend of mine did that kind of work for awhile; he sat in a van for hours at a time waiting to film someone; very tedious and boring PLUS you can't jump out for a pee break so...he finally had to give up the job after getting too many traffic tickets from running red lights, speeding, etc, chasing people around. The best scammer he busted was a "disabled" hockey player who had moved down from another state and was playing here again, he got him to sign a pennant and presented it (along with film of him on the ice playing) in court. A gf of mine was filmed too but she really was injured but it was SUPER FREAKY to see film of me carrying in groceries, even when we knew during that time we might be filmed.
What would help level the "playing field" would be to have a REAL sub-contracting system. Very few companies will hire people under i-9, so none are really "contractors" in the end. So not only is there a huge "permanent subclass" who are considered corporate second-class citizens, they cannot even reap the real benefits of being a contractor. Huge Corp Inc might be paying $100 an hour for a help desk tech, but after 3-4+ layers of sub-contractors the tech ends up making $10-$15 for no additional benefits, actually usually far less the other employees who basically are costing the same amount.
The only real barrier I could find (other than corps just not wanting to work outsider their already established ecosystem) is Errors and Omissions insurance, Worker's Comp, etc. Even getting a sales tax license and an LLC / INC is pretty trivial if the end result is going from $10/hr to $50-$100hr. Something like this could be a huge economic boom in the US and would result in hundreds, if not thousands of new small businesses opening up over night. They would probably pay MORE taxes as the huge sub-contracting corps are often huge tax-dodgers as well. This would also stimulate the "exchanges" of the ACA putting thousands of decent-paying i-9 employees on the exchanges. Maybe this should be submitted to Congress under some catchy title like the "Economic Electronic Stimulation Act" or EESA. A combination of H1-B visa re-regulation, overseas contracting policy that really covers the IT industry, and some economic funding for start-ups that will help IT people transition from working for someone to working for themselves would re-invigorate our country like the Tesla / Edison "inventor" days.
you'd never even get into the classes needed for a pharm tech lol. But a drug conviction like you say is probably one of the easiest to explain; you can easily show a paper trail of rehabilitation to satisfy HR. You might have some issues being a PC tech at a hospital; but knowing their hiring practices here locally and all the nurses also abusing (and getting busted) for stealing meds it seems it might actually help get a job there.
Theft is really the board line. But if you can sum up the felony in a sentence or two, laugh it off, then often you can blow right past the HR drone's shields LOL. The Morgan Freeman line off "Universe" always works..."when I was a boy"..."I did this bad thing with XYZ". Trick the drones into "ignore" mode, confuse them with messy paperwork that only shows up AFTER you've already got a tentative offer...
I know people who have been in similar situations. Burglary II, felony in 1995. Stole a bunch of equipment out of Bell yards, got busted. At first, it was very difficult. Going through contracting companies was the only option. Manpower, CDI, Staffmark...I know Manpower Professional will still put you out for contracts even with a more recent felony, they ONLY tell the client IF specifically asked. Be totally honest with these contracting companies, they will play the HR game for "your side" and after a few short job's they seem to not care once you've proven yourself.
Ironically reminding the contracting companies about the felony can firm up trust, one friend was put up at a Capital One call center via Manpower so they called their rep and told them "It's in my application, I can't pass a fingerprint check" so they just replaced him, still paid him AND found another position. But it takes time. Most applications at most companies I've seen will only check 7 years back. The form might say seven, ten, or whatever years...or might say "Ever". But the actual check itself only goes back seven. Just carefully read the forms, eventually you'll find various places that you can legally avoid having to put it down. Often places will have it on the paper work but never actually read it; scribbling it on the lines where it's barely legible MIGHT have worked...yet many companies never actually read over all 20-50 pages of paper work outside the I-9 / w-2 stuff.
The advice about "your own company" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, even just as something to fill in employment gaps in your resume. Even if it's only working on Hypervisor in your home lab, re-branding yourself is crucial. When all my friends where starting out in IT, we often had a "default" company we would cover for each other with for work references since we actually did know each other's capabilities. Basically put the type of work you WANT in the "experience" of your own business, tell people it's your i-9 contracting company...as long as you actually know how to perform what you wrote down (or can learn fast) you CAN recover.
Dude, it's a LONG HARD ROAD. There might be times your working at fast food, remembering the days of your company laptop. You might have to work call centers for awhile; some have more "technical" positions too. You just have to wait for the heat to cool off, pay off all your fines, and work what ever shit you can until you get to the 7 year mark. Stay clean, no more charges, keep all your ID's up to date and a bank account open. Most importantly, GET REAL HELP if there is a reason behind the felony. People will forgive you if you really do try to fix whatever behavior lead to the felony...if it's something like that but TFA doesn't really say. DUI, go to ALL the treatment courses, get into and STAY in AA or SOS or something; show the HR people you've got a handle on what lead you down the road of crime. I've seen MANY people with undiagnosed ADD get into tons of "stupid" legal trouble; a few of them got adderal treatment along with behavioral therapy and are back in the "corporate world". They really did analyze themselves and make a change; since the felony often points to a deeper problem internally you've got to FIX that if you want to be accepted back into civil society.
Good luck, and godspeed. You'll need it, and you'll need the social support of your friends. Eventually you might turn the felony around into positive PR, aka street cred!
Assuming you've never seen the movie "Pi"? go watch it and STFU
I still have a problem with that. No amount of weed will keep someone from "not feeling" four gunshot wounds unless it was laced. And the toxicology only showed THC.
Never heard of "compression"? I'm not surprised when I see comments like this on some newspaper forum, but /.? I've got over 300 days of video in about 2TB.
Screw cameras! If your charged with a crime you didn't commit, and if you can find them, you can hire the A-Team!
I'm assuming Cyanogen is this kid, he's the first to show Googling Cyanogen Human. Close enough for my conspiracy theories!
Like Kickstarter...just because you have a brilliant idea doesn't mean you can figure out international manufacturing.
HP Palm OS that has spent several years in orbit mutating from cosmic rays?
that's why it's FAR better for all geeks to spend up and get a "business account". No caps, not much monitoring, 24x7 support, hour-based refunds during outages, etc.
Cox has actually gone the opposite way of what the RIAA want. About 10 years ago, we got a temporary shut-off from someone (not me!) downloading a movie (ok, yeah, it was me) but as soon as we said "it's gone" the net came back up. Then again about 3 years ago (different account, still Cox), "someone" was downloading The Colbert Report BUT all Cox did is send a letter, saying something about "you have a business account so yes you can legally share your wifi BUT someone downloaded this" but nothing happened, I called them and they told me their "current" policy towards business accounts basically puts my business in the "common carrier" class or such. So Cox has actively moved AWAY from cutting off the net.
Biosphere II's main failure was not waiting until the concrete had completely cured before sealing it off resulting in too much CO2 for the "self regulating" system to handle.
Ask the Russians...you can't tell me they didn't try to distil some vodka on the MIR
Now we can start cluttering up orbit with useless plastic trinkets instead of just old rocket / satellite peices!
I agree, I hope that someday this kind of research might lead to harvesting anti-protons from the SAA.
Disney Corporation announces a lawsuit with SpaceX over the use of the word "x-wing" in a recent tweet describing his new rocket spacefins.
Your in the UK, that's the problem. The UK's "freedom of speech" law is far more complicated than the US's. They have a "negative right" under Common Law, seems like a list of more what you can do as opposed to what you can't. Show's the origin comes from the monarchy having absolute power and slowly dolling out rights as opposed to the US's that started out almost absolute and has slowly been restricted.
It's quite possible the hotel might have recourse to do this under the UK's defamation laws. It's very complicated, probably involving the phase of the moon and such from the 1500's.