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>Why would we expect Slack or other tech companies to be helping random people with housing or social support? Yet they expect congratulations. Slack's selfish
by pytester 7y ago
>Why would we expect Slack or other tech companies to be helping random people with housing or social support?
Yet they expect congratulations. Slack's selfish commercial interest is entirely aligned with hiring cheap developers, but, they put out a press release and the atlantic magazine took it up.
I worked with a another charity that did a similar thing (not prisoners, but the underprivileged) and one of the companies we got some of them jobs at did the same thing.
The company got some cheap developers, avoided commission on a recruitment agency and then proceeded to issue a press release patting themselves on the back.
- tyingq 7y agoIn this particular case, I think it's worth it even it is self serving. The advent of cheap online background checks has added to the already difficult task of getting a job if you're a felon. Any publicity around hiring them helps normalize it as expected.
- pytester 7y agoThis piece of PR fluff isn't helping regular ex cons get regular jobs in non-tight labor markets.
- tyingq 7y agoIf you look at what funded the article, at the bottom, I believe that's the intent. Though, yes, they did over gush about Slack.
- robsinatra 7y agoI'm waiting for the moral grandstanders to take to social media and try to publicly shame companies for refusing to hire their trained ex-cons
- TulliusCicero 7y agoThey're playing the PR game and winning. I find it hard to blame them for that. Especially since they're not lying or doing anything explicitly harmful.