Hiring a felon

IMO, felonies are like babies... they are not mistakes. Thought goes into both.

 

A few of what guys? Child molesters? I don't know anything about Mamo Transportations hiring policies, so I can't confirm or deny.

 

Sorry Mr. Tennesseeahawk, you cannot stereotype all convicted felons. Just shows how narrow minded and high-horsed some people are. Every situation is not the same. Someone can be in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person not intentionally wanting to commit a crime, but get caught up in being an accomplice just by association. And that is just one example of many.

 

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Just make sure it's on your application and what you put is accurate to what your background report will say. Some are easier to work with than others.

 

Our company would not hire an ex felon who had a history of violence, theft, sexual abuse of any kind, drug related convictions, or fraud. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
There are enough drivers out there with clean records that taking a chance on an ex felon just doesn't make sense.
I understand that sometimes a person makes a mistake that haunts him for many years. I wish them the best of luck. But...we're a trucking company, not a social rehabilitation agency.

 

The companies ive been applying to in person the questions they asked me before even giving me the app,hows your mvr,do you have any felonies or convictions.

 

I just dug out one of our employment apps and the question it asks is..."have you ever been convicted of, or charged with, a felony of any kind or a misdemeanor resulting in incarceration?" A lot of times a felony charge will be plea-bargained down to a misdemeanor.

 

I too have been guilty of judging someone with a 'felony' a bit too harshly. You hear someone say I have a felony on my record and you think drug dealer, rapist, child abuser what horrible crime did you commit.... Until I too was hit with a felony. Yes, me 38 years old, former TS security clearance holder in the Air Force, clean cut small town guy. Working as a loan officer for a mortgage company a client fudged his income a bit to purchase a house (pretty normal for banks to approve no income verification for those with high credit scores). He ultimately lost his job and then lost the house. Bank QC'd the file and decided that there was fraud and I was gonna be the one to eat it because I was the loan officer on the loan app. Mail Fraud is what the US attorney and my lawyer agreed to and then the US attorney begged the judge to give me 12 months in prison. Really? Federal Prison? Now I'm not one to cry over spilled milk, but it did seem a bit harsh to ruin the rest of my life over something like this, but what the hell, it is what it is. A law was broken and I paid the price.

So the lesson here is don't ever lie on a loan app. You finance a car/truck with a bank and are not 100% accurate with your information it is Bank Fraud(felony). If that loan application is mailed somewhere it is Mail Fraud (felony) If the application is transmitted through the computer it is Wire Fraud (felony). If they can't make any of that stick they always have the good ol' standby charge of Conspiracy (felony).

You get a federal felony and that can never be expunged. It sticks with you FOREVER!

Not all people with felonies are bad people, a lot of people get charged with something because they got caught up in a bad situation (intentional or not really doesn't matter once you have a record)

And REO6205, I'm wondering if you think all of the other companies out there that hire felons are a 'social rehabilitation agency'? I'm not sure I get your meaning.

Anyway, thats my rant for now. Take it for what you will. And for the OP, keep your head up and yourself out of trouble!