• couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Funny how in one Lemmy post everyone is complaining that people get burned for life in the job market for making a mistake. Or how employers are evil for mandatory drug testing… And in the next one they get riled up because a company would dare hire a recovering alcoholic to ride a bike

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      2 days ago

      I think it has a lot to do with whether you are helping them to rebuild their life, or exploiting their desperation.

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          1 day ago

          “Help” would entail treating them as equal, not paying them a fraction of worth just because they cant find work anywhere else.

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          Paying a living wage and providing social security for workers would help more. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

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            21 hours ago

            Well the original comment I was replying to worded it like these people should not be hired for these jobs, at all.

            Of course I agree everyone should be free to pay them a better wage