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Re:This bakery will hire anyone by carapace on Saturday March 07, 2015 @06:29PM (#9163552)
"Brady also said that it was immaterial whether or not open hiring was a better way to do business. His goal is to make sure his business also helps the community and helps people out of poverty. With that goal, there’s an imperative to try new things. “There’s a lot of recognition that the things people have been doing aren’t working,” he said."
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Re:This bakery will hire anyone by powertower on Saturday March 07, 2015 @07:14PM (#9163762)
When you pay a low wage for a job that literally anyone of the street can do after about 10-30 minutes of training, you can hire and fire all day long, it will not affect your bottom line.

So it is true that it's immaterial to his business - whether it's open hire, or day laborer, or something else.

But I'm not sure how exactly this method helps anyone? Because most of the employees are gone after 10 months.

Does this mean they've made enough money to move into a better job?

Or does this just reinforce the stereotypes about convicts, drug addicts, and the mentally ill?

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