{"id":46476,"date":"2019-01-24T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T19:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46476"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:59:14","slug":"the-implications-of-this-are-not-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46476","title":{"rendered":"The implications of this are not good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Get ready for Cryme Tyme<\/a>: the City of South Fulton passes the \u201cBan the Box\u201d ordinance which no longer makes job applicants have to disclose if they have a criminal background<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly after New Years, I hit a freshly formed pothole, and blew a flat.\u00a0 I was not pleased about it, since ultimately it\u2019s an incident that nobody is really held accountable for, and I was out $500 in order to replace all my tires, since they were pretty much due for a change.\u00a0 Regardless, I went on the internet and tracked down the protocol for reporting the pothole to the county, and within two days, I got a message stating that the pothole was resolved.\u00a0 I drive on this stretch of road regularly, and I can confirm that it was patched pretty immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve stated that I\u2019m still on my old neighborhood\u2019s Nextdoor, since I can\u2019t bring myself to walk away from the source of unintentional trainwreck entertainment, especially since it\u2019s a subscription that not just anyone can get access to unless they live (or lived) there.\u00a0 One issue that has been fairly persistent in my old hood (aside from theft, vandalism, celebratory gunfire, ordinary gunfire, bodies being found in the trunks of abandoned cars outside of Publix), is potholes.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been so problematic, it\u2019s gotten to the point where it\u2019s even been on the local news, with hopes that public exposure will shame GDOT into fixing it immediately, to which I\u2019m not actually sure if it\u2019s worked this time, because this tactic has been employed so many times.\u00a0 Otherwise, this is an issue for the City of South Fulton, because its within their jurisdiction and they\u2019re responsible for the infrastructure of themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, the response has not been swift, probably not been addressed, and I\u2019ve seen numerous threads about all the cars that have fallen victim to the same potholes.\u00a0 Sure, maybe they all shouldn\u2019t be on 22\u201d low-profile wheels more susceptible to blowing out on potholes, but that\u2019s another story, but frankly people shouldn\u2019t expect their tax-paid roads to be completely pocked with deep and detrimental potholes in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point of all this introduction is that if people thought living in the City of South Fulton was bad before, imagine what it\u2019s going to be like when anyone who ever wants to work for the city, will no longer have to disclose any criminal offenses they\u2019ve had on their records?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Frankly, I do understand why this is perceived as a step in the right direction; ultimately, the whole box check of \u201cdo you have any criminal background\u201d on any job application is often times met with immediate disqualification, because most companies\/agencies don\u2019t want to hire anyone who\u2019s done anything bad on record, despite the fact that it\u2019s really meant to be something to discussed and deliberated upon.<\/span><\/p>\n

But removing it outright in my opinion, kind of opens the doors for people who have actual severe criminal pasts, to be able to slip into the general population of job applicants, and that\u2019s something that I don\u2019t feel that actual criminals have earned the right to have.\u00a0 Like, an idiot who has gotten a DUI or gotten a trespassing citation on them because they wandered into the wrong place; they absolutely should be able to state their case.\u00a0 But a perp with a larceny, theft, or worse off, a sexual assault mark on their record now no longer has to disclose that?\u00a0 Yeah no, I don\u2019t agree with that, and given the populous of South Fulton, the door is wide open for perps to get jobs that frankly should first be available to non-criminals far before them.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s also an implication that South Fulton doesn\u2019t have enough people without criminal records, to where this ordinance needed to be put in place; sure, it certainly felt that way in the tail end of the years that I lived down there, but at the same time, I know there were also plenty of talented and qualified workers available.\u00a0 Granted, they all were like me and probably worked in the city of Atlanta, and not South Fulton, but still, there are plenty of jobs out there for people without criminal pasts to be able to get.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the day, it\u2019s no water off my back; I don\u2019t fuckin live down there anymore.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still certainly easy for me to stand on my pedestal and cast judgment on them, because I lived there for 13 years under the delusion that there was a future, and that hope actually existed there.\u00a0 I was one of the fortunate people to have gotten out when I did, but for those who weren\u2019t so lucky, all I can really do is criticize on the internet the things they do, and wish those who deserve it, the best of thoughts and prayers to get the fuck out of there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get ready for Cryme Tyme: the City of South Fulton passes the \u201cBan the Box\u201d ordinance which no longer makes job applicants have to disclose if they have a criminal background Shortly after New Years, I hit a freshly formed pothole, and blew a flat.\u00a0 I was not pleased about it, since ultimately it\u2019s an … Continue reading The implications of this are not good<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,112,45,37,143,52,46],"class_list":["post-46476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-bataria","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-job","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-zombieland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46478,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476\/revisions\/46478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}