From Prison to Programming
(Long time member, but anon for this one, sry)<p>I&#x27;ll bite. True story.<p>This company hired a young guy. <i>Extremely</i> likable dude. (100% female, if that matters) HR <i>loves</i> him, not likes, <i>loves</i> him. Undenyably charming chap. He&#x27;s hired in a technical position despite having no real education in IT or Computer Science, nor any previous experience.<p>Turns out he was involved in a fairly recent murder case, did pre-arrest and out on bail. Never mentioned any of it on his CV&#x2F;application. Things only suface when his trial and subsequent post conviction jailtime comes up.<p>So, he hired a few other guys to break in and rob an elderly person, who had under his charms confided in him she had a safe full of shinies. Not just hired, he drove them to the site to commit the robbery. They end up killing the eldery woman during the breakin&#x2F;robbery. The safe turned out to be a fancifull story the granny told the guy.<p>Murder wasn&#x27;t solved, but his hired hands start balckmailing him, threathning to rat him out (he was a waiter in a place the elderly woman fequented, where he charmed her). As the blackmail progresses, he sees no way out and walks to the police to cut a deal.<p>Trial happens, he gets convicted with a light sentence because of &#x27;&#x27;çooperation&#x27;&#x27;, and after not too long here he is back at the company. HR sends out feelers to the employees (it&#x27;s a small company of around 50 employees), but it is clear they&#x27;re still 100% charmed and the whole thing is just to see who would quit once they hired him back so they can prepare.<p>Now for the kicker: While he was at the company before the trial, and before the company had any idea of his past, he had pitched a SaaS market platform scheme for &#x27;services to the elderly&#x27;, involving a full database of sensitive info on elderly persons living alone at home.<p>After his (very) short jail sentence, he is hired back by the company on the same scheme.<p>Now I&#x27;ve always been an open minded person. I think people can change (infrequently mind you, but possible). But there seem to be too many notes here to not call it a symphony. I have worked with charming psychopaths in the past as has anyone who has been in this business for some time, and you do get better at spotting certain things.<p>Your thoughts?