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I don't know if this is true. I find it extremely unlikely that the average employer would even consider employing someone with apparent mental health issues, s
by yzzxy 12y ago
I don't know if this is true. I find it extremely unlikely that the average employer would even consider employing someone with apparent mental health issues, so it's possible many people in similar situations just give up.
I don't think he should be forced to work, or even pushed to do so. But I really don't see the harm in making an offer of employment or something similar - It's not "condescending" as some other commenters have contended and implies nothing beyond what it is. If he wants to live on the social welfare that he almost surely deserves and spend his life coding or doing whatever he chooses, that's fine. I'm just suggesting that other doors could be opened.
- vinceguidry 12y agoI wouldn't say you're so much condescending to him as rather underestimating him.
- yzzxy 12y agoHow would I be underestimating him? If anything, I'm underestimating his potential employers. There's a digital fossil record of what he's said online at this point, and the average hiring manager will probably just throw him out as a candidate as soon as they any of his posts, unless they take the time to understand the larger situation at play.
- vinceguidry 12y agoHe's not this helpless, crazy clod, he has a network and friends and everything. His fate is not wholly in the hands of "average hiring managers".
- yzzxy 12y agoSo isn't help from friends or a professional network related to hiring EXACTLY what I described?
- vinceguidry 12y agoNo, you're suggesting random people on the Internet who don't know him do it.
- Igglyboo 12y agoThe only place he could possibly find work is in some research lab (think MSR) or academia.