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OP, I'm really sorry you are in this boat. My honest opinion is that this is a bullshit charge you are forced to carry around, I wish you the best and hope you
by erdos4d 6y ago
OP, I'm really sorry you are in this boat. My honest opinion is that this is a bullshit charge you are forced to carry around, I wish you the best and hope you find an employer who agrees. It is unfortunately the case that the US grossly over-criminalizes people and has no real way of offering them a shot at atonement. I personally do not understand what is gained by making a huge permanent underclass, but this country seems to believe this is justice in some perverted sense. Even if your charge wasn't bullshit, I would still wish you the chance to get it expunged or made right in some way.
That said, I think in the current environment you should be quiet and ride it out. Let the company get to know you and make a decision if possible. If they love you and then find out, you will have a better chance than by poisoning the well up front. IANAL, just a dev who has dealt with HR a few times. Best of luck:)
- kochikame 6y agoI get your point and I broadly agree, but it's a bit rich to label OP as part of "a huge permanent underclass". He or she is applying for and may well get an extremely lucrative role at one of the most famous companies in the world, putting them squarely in the "1%" of humanity as a whole. That doesn't scream underclass to me
- erdos4d 6y agoOP may very well have, by benefit of IQ alone, a shot like that, but the intention of the society is squarely to place him under the rest, without a way to atone or make right. If he's part of the set, he's part of the set. Whether his membership in the set does him the same harm as another in the set, that we may debate about.