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To: NautiNurse

Goodwill’s whole purpose is to hire people with handicaps. I ran a group home at one point where most of our people went to work in one of their sheltered workshops - that is, a place for people who couldn’t even deal with public contact. But we had one resident who was more able and he worked with the public. A nice guy and a good employee, but just somebody who wasn’t quite up to coping with decisions on his own.

Our local Publix hires a lot of folks like this as baggers, and they’re wonderful and helpful.


164 posted on 03/20/2018 7:33:42 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

I agree with that, we know a family and one of the children is legally blind, he gets by with thick frames, real nice guy, goes to the shooting range even but he can’t drive a car and he was able to get a job at Salvation Army, so I do think some of these outfits, thrift-like stores help out. Undoubtedly, they might get some down-and-outers but SA does some sort of criminal background check.


182 posted on 03/20/2018 8:16:19 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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