Greyston Bakery hires on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked
The key is the onboarding program. Bakeries are nice, they have a range of jobs that go from very simple (sweeping up and cleaning) to very complex (scheduling different products for baking). If you have that range you can absorb a lot of different people.<p>That said, if you recall the story we had here a while back [1] about how janitors used to work for the company and now they work for a contracting firm, this is very relevant. There <i>are</i> a lot of jobs at even a high tech company like Google or Apple that could be filled by someone with a high school degree and nominal fine motor skills, but those jobs are currently firewalled behind a general contracting company. That perversely misaligns the end employees motivations and the company motivations.<p>It was interesting to me to see the remnants of a system like this at IBM which had 10 &quot;bands&quot; of employment level, where band 1 was janitor level, and band 10 was principle engineer&#x2F;senior manager type level. But it seemed like these days they only used bands 6 - 10 because that was where &#x27;entry level engineer&#x27; started (band 6). Many if not all of the jobs in the lower bands were outsourced as far as I could tell. And a lot eliminated when they sold off factories or other parts of the business that had a lot of technician level labor.<p>I will be interesting to see if we could get back to a more reasonable way of managing these things.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;to-understand-rising-inequality-consider-the-janitors-at-two-top-companies-then-and-now.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;to-understand-risi...</a>