> A society where no young person feels that crime is their only option. This crime can become violent. Knife crime offences resulting in injury have increased by 22% in the last year, and 85% of violent offenders are aged between 16 and 29
I think they're saying that their workforce will include such violent offenders. Good for them. Probably most of these people need another chance and are worthy of it.
But I can't say I'd be comfortable calling them to my home. My father once hired a youth offender to do yardwork. He worked for him for several months. About a year later he came to the house with a girlfriend, robbed the occupants, and murdered two of them. They were the family I sold the house to after my father died.
Maybe my bias against violent offenders is bigotry. Surely this was a rare case. It isn't very fair to generalize. Yet I do fear them, and if I used this service I'd make an effort not to let them know where I live. It seems likely that many other people feel this way. That gives Cracked It a particularly tough hill to climb for a startup. I wish them well.
Another victim of the expertsexchange problem. It's unfortunate because hyphens really should be avoided in URLs. For the last couple of domain names I've registered, I made sure to put the potential names into the "Detect language" box in Google Translate to make sure they weren't inappropriate words in another language, in addition to reading them upside down and backwards for other English interpretations. Naming things is hard.
Crack edit? Is this a term I should be familiar with? To be clear: I know ‘crack’ is a drug, I am asking if ‘crack’ in combination with ‘edit’ is something funny.
This looks really neat, but it seems like a really bad time to be in "workplace" repair when so many are working from home due to a pandemic. I just found out I'll be stuck at home until at least 2021.
Despite knowing about them for a year or so, you made me think, and I realise that their name is really quite clever: you’ve cracked it - they can fix it. But ‘cracked it’ also means they have also solved the problem!
hirundo|5 years ago
I think they're saying that their workforce will include such violent offenders. Good for them. Probably most of these people need another chance and are worthy of it.
But I can't say I'd be comfortable calling them to my home. My father once hired a youth offender to do yardwork. He worked for him for several months. About a year later he came to the house with a girlfriend, robbed the occupants, and murdered two of them. They were the family I sold the house to after my father died.
Maybe my bias against violent offenders is bigotry. Surely this was a rare case. It isn't very fair to generalize. Yet I do fear them, and if I used this service I'd make an effort not to let them know where I live. It seems likely that many other people feel this way. That gives Cracked It a particularly tough hill to climb for a startup. I wish them well.
Johnny555|5 years ago
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Scoundreller|5 years ago
I love seeing the same principles applied to communications.
advisedwang|5 years ago
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andylynch|5 years ago
A similar business locally working with ex-offenders is redemption roasters (coffee).
Another really good example of how this can be successful helping people is Timpson’s.
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