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MeTa post:
get out of jail free
She commits a serious felony and manages to hide it from her employer (among other people). She's managed to subvert the background checks process for a decade, and now that some disgruntled person from her past (victim, partner in crime, ex-boyfriend) is seeking revenge, she's afraid her years of deception will come around and bite her in the ass, and is trying to weasel her way out of it with a "misinformation campaign," as someone helpfully suggested.
Plus,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 12:14 PM on August 5, 2007
Forgiveness and rehabilitation are not the issue. Perhaps if she had disclosed it she would have gotten hired. But from my point of view, I work in the hiring process for a company that has a high number of factory jobs, and quite a few of the people who apply for those jobs have criminal records. Sometimes it stops them from getting the job, and sometimes it does not. But I can only imagine if we hire on someone with a violent past who manages to slip through our process; someone could get... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 12:36 PM on August 5, 2007
the question is answerable and people are answering it.
Thank you for clearing that up!!
My point wasn't literally "why was the question asked" or "why would people answer questions on a board where questions are asked" but rather just my surprise that so many people were willing to contribute to something that seems to ethically dubious. Commenters get bent out of shape over questions about downloading... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 12:44 PM on August 5, 2007
If your job is carefully reviewing and screening job applicants, perhaps you should spend less time reading MetaFilter and more time doing your damn job.
Good idea, I should get off Metafilter (I've already made 9 comments this year, 10 counting this one!), and spend this beautiful Sunday working overtime screening job applicants, which has absolutely nothing to do with my job.
Anyway, I think paulsc put it quite well.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 1:13 PM on August 5, 2007
I'm not questioning the existence of the question, but the thought behind the answers.
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 1:58 PM on August 5, 2007
Do you know anyone who's tried to put their life together after being in prison?
Yes, in fact I work with them all the time, if you read my above comment. I believe in second chances and starting over, and I help people with it all the time. But it's a challenge for lots of people, because most of them are honest and upfront about the stupid things they did earlier in life, and not everyone is willing to forgive them. So they have to work hard to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 2:17 PM on August 5, 2007
MeTa post:
Help me find this AskMe post (what I remember): an...
No, neither of those, the question I am thinking of was more of a generic "have you encountered a lot of adversity/problems traveling abroad as an American" type question. Thanks for the guesses, though.
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 12:34 AM on June 26, 2006
Interesting link, nelleish!
I am almost certain that the question did not address clothing, and was about travel, specifically.
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 10:25 AM on June 26, 2006
MeTa post:
New feature idea: final follow-up/resolution...
This was posted before, but I don't believe people got the point. The "Best Answer" is generally the best advice (and sometimes it is the resolution, especially with computer questions), but doesn't usually indicate how things turned out. I think a lot of questions posed in AskMe are very interesting and a lot of the time I really want to know what happened in the end. My idea is to have a mechanism available to AskMe posters so that once their original situation is resolved, they... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 4:14 PM on March 24, 2006
MeTa post:
The Kirby Puckett obit thread has attracted some...
I think the comment total is what's important. Even with the back & forth some are partaking in it seems that lots of MeFi-ers liked him enough to comment. I mean, he couldn't be THAT minor. So clearly people find it worth their while, which is the definition of a good FPP.
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 10:18 PM on March 6, 2006
justgary writes "I could post a microsoft sucks column from a pro apple site and you would have two hundred members finding it worth their while to comment. "
We're differing on what "worth their while" is. I think yet another FPP about the evils of Microsoft would occupy a different place in someone's heart than an FPP about the death of a beloved athlete, and I think the nature of the comments would be quite different too.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 11:02 PM on March 6, 2006
MeTa post:
The worst noise I see on AskMeFi is simple: posts...
A poorly answered medical question can be costly. Lots of times people answer questions they honestly don't know the answers to. A family member of mine had been sick, and when they looked up up symptoms online they thought they had cancer. Turns out it wasn't.
Anyway, my point is that medicine is best left to medical professionals. When someone asks for info supposedly supplementing doctor's advice, the best case scenario is that AskMe-ers will echo whatever the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 11:49 PM on February 5, 2006
MeTa post:
Ok, here's a question about AskMeFi questions: how...
I don't people are "always" asking questions for a friend, but I think the main reason is that if I asked a question on behalf of a friend and someone asked me a clarifying or otherwise question, I'd have to explain that I'm not the one with the question, so I may as well get that out of the way. It also would explain why the person might have a delay in responding to the answers, or why in follow-ups in the question why the questioner has no idea what they're talking about.
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 12:45 PM on January 24, 2006
MeTa post:
What about a sense of closure? [more...
I like the idea a lot, and was going to post it myself. Obviously some questions won't need to be followed-up, but the social questions especially (coworker/family trouble, or law issues re: car accidents, or medical issues, etc) have resolutions that I think I and others would like to see the outcomes of. And just because something was marked as a best answer doesn't mean it provides insight into the resolution...the best answer might have been "confront your co-worker about their... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by apple scruff
at 2:34 PM on December 4, 2005
