This bakery will hire anyone
As someone with several drug related felonies on my record, I can do nothing but applaud the efforts of this CEO, although on a different level I wonder if any adult working a minimum wage job isn't living a very bleak existence anyway, and in fact isn't being exploited for having a brain disorder we currently call "addiction"<p>The problem with people who let drugs seriously affect their life is that...they let drugs seriously affect their lives, and at least from an employment point of view, where what matters is robot-like conformity and compliance, this is just not-to-be tolerated or even risked.<p>The sad, sad irony of this is that according to very recent studies[1], the very thing that <i>made</i> us addicts is the very prescription that society has deemed our punishment to be.  Talk about cruel and unusual.<p>I wish I could say I don't struggle with relapse, but one of the few things worse then being an addict is being a lying addict.<p>Being unemployable by most metrics and having to constantly struggle to survive sure doesn't help with that battle.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-...</a><p>[edits]