JetBlue hires violent felon as a pilot

ppragman said:
Guy sounds like he was a piece of • - but that was 6 or so years ago, he served his time (all a couple months of it), and presumably is “rehabilitated.” If he interviews well I don’t see why not. Note that he got out in good behavior. Maybe this one event taught him that he can’t behave that way - perhaps “the system worked.”

It’s not our job to punish people indefinitely - I care how he is now, not how he was 6 years ago. If he appears to be an utter dbag or can’t explain his personal growth through this situation, well, sorry. But anyone would have to explain long periods of unemployment, or if their name comes up in a bad light at a cursory Google search.

Like, another (even more hyperbolic example) is Kyle Rittenhouse. That kid murdered a couple of people and I believe the verdict was a miscarriage of Justice. But he was found innocent and if he’s qualified and interviews well / seems like a person I want to work with, well, welcome aboard.

But he’s going to have to interview well, and part of that is explaining why he has a fairly damning Wikipedia article…

Regardless, I care about how people are now - not how they used to be.
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Nah... nah! He got a sweetheart deal because he was rich and white. And his parents said that jail would negatively impact his future. Hard pass. Hard pass. He raped someone and barely served time. On appeal his lawyers said he shouldn't have even got any time because his pants were still on and he was just dry humping her. Then after he got out he wanted his tought six months sentence expunged and him taken off the registry because its hard out there for him. Tears. F*k that guy.
 
I can see why people would and would NOT hire an ex-con.

The worlds most notorious ex-con "black hat" hacker to secure my home network. Yes! They're a hot commodity in the IT network security business. I'm sure some of my more nerdy friends here knows what goes on at DEF CON every year.

R. Kelly to drive my 18 year old nieces's Uber? Absolutely not. "Why do you smell like pee?"

I think it's ok to look at things on a case by case basis to make a decision while being fully cognizant of the optics.
 
Maximilian_Jenius said:
Nah... nah! He got a sweetheart deal because he was rich and white. And his parents said that jail would negatively impact his future. Hard pass. Hard pass. He raped someone and barely served time. On appeal his lawyers said he shouldn't have even got any time because his pants were still on and he was just dry humping her. Then after he got out he wanted his tought six months sentence expunged and him taken off the registry because its hard out there for him. Tears. F*k that guy.
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I've got a story about something relatively similar in severity of a wealthy young suburbanite that kept getting things 'expunged' that manifested itself into something tremendously tragic. Everyone thought "Whoodathunkit?!" then the curtain fell.

It involves some family friends so I don't want the Google indexbots to do their magic, check your phone in a bit.
 
NovemberEcho said:
So because Turkish is genderless, my wife often mixes up he/she and/or uses them interchangeably. So she’ll be telling a story and you’re trying to follow along thinking there’s 5 people involved but it turns out it was just one or two people and sometimes she would use “she” and sometimes “he” for the same person.

“My husband flies planes. Sometimes she rents them. He’ll take me flying and then she takes me dinner.”
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Cantonese is similar in the sense there are no tenses. My wife will often refere to her father in the present tense even though he passed away years ago. It used to creep me out, but I hardly notice it anymore.
 
BobDDuck said:
Cantonese is similar in the sense there are no tenses. My wife will often refere to her father in the present tense even though he passed away years ago. It used to creep me out, but I hardly notice it anymore.
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So in Turkish, the term “making love” just refers to showing affection. Like when two people hug they’re making love. So my wife will be talking to people she just met and say something like “oh my husband is home making love to the dogs.” Now she does it on purpose because she enjoys the reaction. Don’t even get me started on the Bokashi/Bukkakkee mix up.

This is Bokashi. I’ll let you google bukkakkee on your own if you don’t know.

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Bokashi (horticulture) - Wikipedia

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NovemberEcho said:
So in Turkish, the term “making love” just refers to showing affection. Like when two people hug they’re making love. So my wife will be talking to people she just met and say something like “oh my husband is home making love to the dogs.” Now she does it on purpose because she enjoys the reaction. Don’t even get me started on the Bokashi/Bukkakkee mix up.
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"Dear Kevin Mitnick, please hack @NovemberEcho's home security cameras. KTHXBAI!"
 
Derg said:
I can see why people would and would NOT hire an ex-con.

The worlds most notorious ex-con "black hat" hacker to secure my home network. Yes! They're a hot commodity in the IT network security business. I'm sure some of my more nerdy friends here knows what goes on at DEF CON every year.

R. Kelly to drive my 18 year old nieces's Uber? Absolutely not. "Why do you smell like pee?"

I think it's ok to look at things on a case by case basis to make a decision while being fully cognizant of the optics.
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Totally agree, evaluate things on a case by case basis.
 
SteveC said:
Is that a science-based or logic-based declaration?

(Honestly curious where you're coming from. I've already said I'm pretty ignorant on this stuff.)
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Science and logic, yes. The idea that someone can simply choose to have no gender is just as ludicrous as someone choosing to have no hair color when you can see that it’s brown with your own eyes. These people are gaslighting you and calling you a bigot when you call them on it. Sorry, ain’t caving to that silliness.

NovemberEcho said:
@SlumTodd_Millionaire and @ppragman would y’all hire Brock Turner, assuming all other qualifications were met?

People v. Turner - Wikipedia

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I wouldn’t even know, as we don’t do criminal background checks. So, yes.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
Science and logic, yes. The idea that someone can simply choose to have no gender is just as ludicrous as someone choosing to have no hair color when you can see that it’s brown with your own eyes. These people are gaslighting you and calling you a bigot when you call them on it. Sorry, ain’t caving to that silliness.



I wouldn’t even know, as we don’t do criminal background checks. So, yes.
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How do you handle prospective tenants that are registered sex offenders? If you do accept them do you notify the neighbors?
 
knot4u said:
I didn't ask you, I asked Todd how he handles those tenants. Thanks though, I appreciate the effort.
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Well, I thought you might like to know that landlords do not have any requirement of notification about people on the sex offender registry. Nor have they ever, as far as I can see.

But if you'd rather be told by Todd, in his inimitable style, then you just continue to do you.
 
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