Please critique the following. If you just want to call me names or judge me as naive or idealistic, feel free to do so, but please also consider joining me, as those features are how the human race will make progress. I'm really more interested in people who have good hearts but also understand how wrong the lives of others can go, and all the ways in which the rest of us can make them worse or better through revenge or patience and persistence.
Dear Highland Park Skilled Nursing,
One of your employees has engaged in criminal activity. Some possible results of this are bad for Highland Park Skilled Nursing:
• You may be ordered by a court to engage in activity that your employee will not like,
• You may be required to engage lawyers which, as I’m sure you know, cost a lot of money,
• Your employee may not continue providing you with his valuable services.
• Your employee’s family may suffer at the hands of a criminal-justice system that has grown more reckless over time.
One actual result that has been bad for me is that I am out $8,500.
My understanding after these 45 years of living here in Southern California is that most people think the best way to handle someone who has engaged in criminal activity is to punish that person. However, such punishment seldom leads to any kind of restitution to the victims, nor does it cause much of a reduction in the amount of crime he commits in the future. Mostly, it marginalizes the criminal more than he was already marginalized, discourages him from respecting his fellow man any more than he already does, and wastes public resources. I am interested in helping people become better people, not in hurting them for making mistakes, even when they knew, when they made the mistake, that it would hurt others. I loathe revenge and vengeance. For these reasons, I place myself at the mercy of you and everyone else with whom I can connect who is connected in some way to this employee.
If you are willing to help your employee regain at least some of the innocence with which he was born, please contact me, either at my email address, [--------------], or at my phone number, [-----------------].
I suspect your employee began engaging in criminal activity out of desperation, and would welcome help from his employer, as you are a legitimate institution which provides him with sustenance. Other victims are taking harsher measures, and your employee may suffer less at their hands if he can show that he is availing himself of your help in order to undo the damage he has already done. As far as I know, it’s just money.
Until I have your word that you will not terminate his employment based solely on the grounds that he committed a crime, I cannot reveal his identity. He clearly needs more honest work, not less.
If you are interested in my background, feel free to google “dscotese” which is quite unique across the Internet. I am also the webmaster for voluntaryist.com.
Thank you for any help you can provide,
Dave Scotese
The guy has scammed you and others for thousands and you want to protect him? Thats dumb. Its not our fault that even while employed he scammed for thousands. He deserves to lose his job and everything honestly.