Cracked It, a social enterprise that repairs phones(crackedit.org) |
Cracked It, a social enterprise that repairs phones(crackedit.org) |
I think they're saying that their workforce will include such violent offenders. Good for them. Probably most of these people need another chance and are worthy of it.
But I can't say I'd be comfortable calling them to my home. My father once hired a youth offender to do yardwork. He worked for him for several months. About a year later he came to the house with a girlfriend, robbed the occupants, and murdered two of them. They were the family I sold the house to after my father died.
Maybe my bias against violent offenders is bigotry. Surely this was a rare case. It isn't very fair to generalize. Yet I do fear them, and if I used this service I'd make an effort not to let them know where I live. It seems likely that many other people feel this way. That gives Cracked It a particularly tough hill to climb for a startup. I wish them well.
I love seeing the same principles applied to communications.
That's my theory anyway, I bet you all are clever and can think of counterexamples.
Why? Due to SEO penalization?
Serves them right though, cluttering up google searches with resolutions hidden behind a paywall. That's karma for you. And bad preparation obviously.
But anyway, stackoverflow/stackexchange have rightly taken their place.
A similar business locally working with ex-offenders is redemption roasters (coffee).
Another really good example of how this can be successful helping people is Timpson’s.
Same people make very good living of it. Customer retention and profit^2. Poor those non geeks souls.
A friend of mine just registered a domain name with a made-up spelling of regular words kind of like "leet-speak". The two of us are the only ones who can type it from memory, which is not good.