Thursday, May 17, 2012

Seven Misdemeanors That Can Ruin Your Career

posted a fascinating list of no-nos for your career. Here's one of them.
 Weapons charges: Are you a gun fanatic? In addition to handling your weapons with care, you had better be sure you don't get cited for misdemeanor weapons violations like carrying a concealed weapon or brandishing a concealed firearm. These charges could end your career. How would you expect an employer to react to an employee's conviction on a weapons charge? What if the employee brought the weapon to work? What if the employee had the weapon concealed during business hours? And what if something happened that caused the employee to use the weapon? An employer is likely to conclude that hiring or retaining an employee guilty of a weapons charge might not be worth the risk, and that's not a position you want to be in.

18 comments:

  1. So you won't be putting "owned guns both legally and illegally" on your resume?

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    1. You do realize this is a scam website posting listicles to generate traffic. How can you be so gullible, Mikey?

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    2. I don't see what the scam is. They sell a service.

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    3. You are so clueless.

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  2. Committing the crimes listed on the site you quoted will also make a person lose a carry license. In many of those crimes, the person will be prohibited from owning firearms for life. You should be recommending people to commit those crimes.

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  3. Here in Oregon, thanks to a recent bill, it is now no longer possible for a concerned person to inquire if a disturbed person they know, such as an employee, has a CHL. So if they lie on their form, there's no way for the employer to know. It's a dangerous situation. And there are plenty of violent offenses, such a assault, which will not remove your CHL in Oregon. It's bad enough that these people might be hire-able in sensitive positions (such as jobs with children or the public or high-stress jobs), but now they can pack hidden, loaded guns with impunity.

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    1. That is rich coming from a guy who hides behind a screen name. Why do you hide? Afraid someone will publish your name in the paper like the press in Oregon tried to do to people with a CHL?
      Why does an employer need to know if I carry a firearm when I'm not on the clock?

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    2. if a person leaves out conviction info they will be found out if that HR dept is worth a damn...background checks will find whatever charges are and they won't get the job..this "concerned person" crap is just that, crap.

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    3. Since you're so concerned about records being public, Oregonian, how about you put your name, address, and social security number on-line for all to see. After all, you may be dangerous, and we should know about it.

      Better yet, since criminals who are armed are the people to worry about, not us, how about you make a call for all such thugs to put their names and addresses up for us to check. Of course, they don't apply for a carry license, so they'll likely not follow this request, either.

      What we do see here is that privacy is another right that you don't believe in. Or is it just privacy for gun owners?

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    4. Baldr was talking about the possibility of reporting "a disturbed person," not just any gun owner and certainly not all gun owners.

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    5. What exactly qualifies Mr not his real name to judge if a person is disturbed and why would them having a CHL make a difference in choosing to report them? It is none of his business who has a CHL and who doesn't. You like to claim that gun owners harbor some fantasy about playing hero but then get all upset because you can't play jr. detective.

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    6. Scott, you guys like to pretend that all gun owners and all concealed carry guys are responsible. It just ain't so.

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    7. 1. There's nothing to pretend about. We are more responsible, and we've shown you the evidence. You keep telling us that you have a feeling to the contrary, but you've got no proof.

      2. Again, we can't trust you. If all of our information is a matter of public record, you can come after any of us. You say that you'll only investigate a "disturbed person," but you regard any gun owner to be disturbed. Get it into your skull: We don't trust you.

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    8. Mike, you like to pretend that the less than 0.5% that screw up are the majority and it just ain't so. Everything you've suggested has been tried and failed. Registration, FOID cards, ballistic records, all of it has been tried and proven not to prevent crime. Canada just got rid of their gun registration because after spending over 1 Billion dollars they caught zero criminals. New York state scrapped their CoBIS program because again after spending 32 Million dollars they caught zero criminals. What law can you come up with that doesn't infringe on my rights and that will prevent crime? I haven't heard one yet.

      Again I find it ironic that the clown from Oregon thought it was great to try and publish the names of CHL holders but won't publish his real name. Even had you delete the post with his name in it. Guess it is only fun if it isn't happening to you.

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    9. Whoa, 0.5%, where did that come from?

      Everything has been tried and failed, huh? Nothing has yet been tried PROPERLY.

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    10. 1. The Violence Policy Center is motivated to find as many screwups with carry licenses as possible. They're the ones whose numbers show much less than one percent of us doing wrong with our guns, and some of their claimed examples are false.

      2. We already know the name of the fellow from Oregon, so you're not protecting him. What offends me is the way that he's appropriated the names of beings who are much better than he. For him to use the names of Norse gods and then to reject fundamental aspects of Norse culture shows him to be both a fool and a cur.

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    11. "shows him to be both a fool and a cur"

      One look at the video of him waddling down the road with a cardboard train on his shoulders will affirm that.

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    12. Greg, your obsession with Baldr and his blog's commenting policy and his Norse-god name is sick. You should stick to the gun argument, at least there you're only biased and close-minded.

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