What’s really gross is that it appears that it’s lawfare.... Biden received a not so great reception when he visited a Sheetz, so immediately after decided to sue, even thought they’d been atrempting to work to a resolution on this issue for 8 years. Really makes it seem like someone at the DOJ saw the footage and decided it was an opportune moment to strike. Even if that’s not the case,that’s the optics.
I was a General Manager at Sheetz, in multiple stores, for 13 years, throughout Pennsylvania & one Maryland store. They literally do background checks on every single applicant. Their policy was always, if the applicant has a felony, of any kind, they are NOT hired. I remember one young woman in particular that applied for an assistant position. She had moved to Pa from somewhere in the midwest. She had great credentials, was very experienced in C-store management. Sheetz would not allow me to hire her because she had a conviction for vehicular homicide in a drunk driving incident, five years prior. Even though she had stopped drinking & turned her life around. She was not a “minority”. I can give many examples. They have a “zero tolerance” policy on drug use, so a prior conviction on drugs, also makes them ineligible, and if an employee is caught with drugs, or drug paraphernalia, it is grounds for termination, regardless of race. I saw it happen many times. I am not sure what their dispute for eight years is all about. I left the company in 2016.
It’s a sticky wicket. Supposedly, convicted felons who served their time have “paid their debt to society” and should be given second chances. Many prove themselves worthy. Recidivists, not so much. Private business owners should have the right to accept or reject taking the risk and perhaps err on the side of grace, but no govt entity should dictate one way or the other.
Having to repeatedly go through background checks and being rejected solely on the basis of being a former offender, is a big contributor to recidivism. Should one who has paid his/her debt and strives to make an honest living be branded for life? Our society needs to learn forgiveness. There are plenty of criminally minded people who have never served time, and there are also plenty of decent people who need a second chance.
It is Fascism; the GVT-Corporate Complex owns and controls everyone esp. small businesses and owners and sets up impossible requirements and ever-changes them, everything is an opportunity for lawsuits and claims and violations at any given moment. Set up a DEI , pay protection $$$, and payout to all those denied employment over the past 8 years then SHEETZ can carry on as if this isn't extortion and assault on Liberty; until the next opportune time. If they set up shop in CO they can expect to celebrate employee transition-days and FAKE Wedding Anniversaries.
Thanks for your first hand knowledge here. It is interesting and helpful.
I don't really like living in a world where background checks and drug tests are required in order to be hired. I've never tasted alcohol or used drugs or had a criminal record in all my life, but I resent the idea of being treated as though one might be a criminal just to get a job or become an adoptive parent, etc.
I think those things give government and businesses too much control over ordinary lives. But the government has also made it illegal to use common sense and wisdom about deciding who to trust in hiring. So businesses turn to what seems straightforward and indiscriminating with these background check requirements. And they still get in trouble!
But it would be better if business people could use discretion and good judgment about whether someone has reformed and deserves a second chance. It would be more humane and godly. Yet it also opens up businesses to being sued if they hire someone who goes on to do something wrong. We live in a world that has become so complicated. Trust in society is going down by the day. It's become hard to treat people fairly and kindly and still stay in business, so I sympathize with Sheetz.
Another aspect to consider, and I can’t speak to any other business, is that at Sheetz, every employee, regardless of position, shared in a bonus pool that was paid quarterly. As the GM, one of my obligations was to maintain tight controls, obviously the company wanted to make as much profit as possible. But I always looked at it as, my role was more beneficial to my staff. The better the controls & higher the profits (the bottom line), the better the bonus was for the staff. So, by not hiring people, with say, a criminal record for theft, it was deemed lowering the risk. Any kind of theft, whether cash or merchandise, hit the bottom line, which reduced the bonuses the staff worked so hard for. Even when the theft was recovered, my employees never saw it. It went straight to the company. I think if you were to query the staff, they would choose a co-worker without a criminal record, every time. That’s not to say that we didn’t have thieves occasionally, that had no criminal record. They were always caught. And they were always terminated.
I agree with you all. I think the point I was trying to make, was that Sheetz did not discriminate against minorities. Their policies applied to everyone, equally. Unfortunately, that’s not good enough anymore.
Gardening, yes. I do have a small area tilled up in back, and got it raked up yesterday so I can drop in a few pepper and tomato starts today, before the rain comes in. I haven't been able to have a vegetable garden the last two years, because of my 2021 illness. The man who now mows my yard tilled up a spot for me.
Funny story- 20 years ago we bought a new home in the CA desert. There was nothing but barren sand all around. I felt really odd for months until I got some fake plants for decor. Just seeing the fake foliage made me feel better! Then I added some real plants around the front door- definitely made us all feel at ease. My cats did not want to leave the plants to come inside! I think there’s symbiosis.
I was a victim of reverse discrimination in '94 as a teacher. I subbed at a school for a year and finally got the job but at the last moment a minority applied so they hired her instead to adhere to the minority quota. I knew life wasn't fair, but it wasn't even about me but the children.
I was positive and pressed on and even subbed for her BUT I don't know how she graduated HS! Her teacher notes were written in such bad English I was shocked and angry that they did not hire the best person or care that she was uneducated herself. That is the pubic education system and it is much worse 30 years later. Public ed does a background check but how to criminals and pedos get jobs?
It has been such since the 80’s when “affirmative action” was jammed down our throats. Whatever name it goes by, it destroys human flourishing. There is a strata of the population that will toe a line of it serves them, such as staying off drugs and out of trouble with the law, so they can get a job and have food and shelter. When you get food and shelter without meeting reasonable requirements for a job, why bother? And, if you’re in a job, you have to perform or get fired. When firing is not a threat to your food and shelter, and drug and other crimes are punished mildly if at all, these people will sink to the lowest level of effort they can. So that strata of people is unleashed upon us all in life and in the workplace.
*Should be either Summa Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude (with the former being the highest honors). I think that would be a great bumper sticker to have 😁 Far too little respect is given to having actuel sense!
Trickle-down immorality, trickle-down incompetence, trickle-down slave culture; rather than elevate and raise standards, the Massa-Class Plans make us all slaves, subjects, chattel, and lesser-thanz by diluting excellence, mal-education, mal-hiring and proclaiming that it is equitable and just and fair
I came to this substack for covid news and Jeff never disappointed, but lately it’s been everything but covid. I don’t blame Jeff as there is now a concerted effort to make covid disappear. Even the most lockdown states have quit doing covid case and death dashboards. Even though a strange 2 to 3 week illness had friends and family down for the count, it was called influenza, but strangely resembled all the symptoms of covid. Still, Covid is gone, but the wheels of deep state government churn on.
I had to laugh at all the stories they put out saying covid suppressed the usual flu that has plagued the world every year since who knows when. Then suddenly it "disappears" or takes a break so covid can have center stage? I don't think so. Boy do they think we are dumb.
"...when covid "broke out", flu disappeared." More true than you know.
Personal anecdote: mid March 2020, ISO stats on the new covid I went to the CDC website. Easily found covid data among all, including for comparison the decades longstanding P&I (pneumonia and influenza) data. A couple of days later I went back for an update. P&I data was gone. Disappeared. I searched for 20 minutes. Couldn't find it anywhere, and it should have been easily located as it had been for decades. Made no sense. Knew then, 2 seconds before lockdown, something was funky. 🤔 The rest is history. Thanks for reading.
Sisters (and brothers), we have just been through what is probably the most confusing period in modern history in the West excepting if you were one of those in Europe having bombs dropped on your head in WWII and then it didn't matter if you were English, German or French, it was all the same bombs. We have all been the victims of the largest psyops in human history and those who planned and executed the plandemic have been working on this long before Trump even thought of being a politician. He was no more responsible for the plandemic than Biden was, though Biden willingly went along with it and relished in the power it gave him over us. They are two men cut from entirely different bolts of cloth.
What we have to understand is that we are STILL being victimized by their psyops. They WANT us fighting each other over who is responsible for what happened. At least half of what we think we know is total psyops and misdirection. This is all part of their plan to keep us blind to the truth and to cover their trail. They throw up straw men and false leads and we fall for it, always having our eyes distracted from seeing the actual culprits responsible.
We fell for the lie that there was an actual virus, that it was spreading into a pandemic, that it was deadly, that it originated in some second-rate Chinese lab and that we needed a miracle cure that they somehow managed to cook up, manufacture and were ready to distribute in a matter of WEEKS! IT WAS ALL A LIE! It was all psyops. And still is.
Now they want to keep us fighting with each other over the false rabbit trails they feed us while they roll out their next two phases of their operation: the military take-down of the American people and the conversion of humanity into trans-humanist slaves with no free will. As we speak, a foreign army is being trained, organized and armed inside the US by the Dept of Defense drawn from the over 20 million people that have crossed over our southern border since Biden took office. There are secret military training camps in the interior of the US that are training an army of more than 2 million non-Americans that will be deployed against us when the time is ripe. The fight over the border is just more theater to distract us. The border will never be closed as long as Biden is in office but in any event, the invasion is a fait accompli. It is too late.
The plandemic itself was a military campaign, planned and executed by the US Dept of Defense using politicians and drug companies as fronts. The bio-weapon shot was developed and manufactured long before the "covid" was released, all on Defense Dept contracts under military law. Think about it. Even without direct evidence, no other organization has the capacity, skill set and funding to create such a campaign other than the US Defense Dept. But Dr. David Martin has documented the actual evidence proving all of this. Dr. Ana Mihalcea along with others have documented the proof of the trans-humanist design of the bio-weapon shot. It is heavy reading but if you have not familiarized yourself with their material, then you are uninformed.
For more evidence, see these two links:
US Military is the Largest Investor in mRNA Synthetic Biology
(You can scroll down and click on 'read for free')
America is being invaded and destroyed with the help of our leaders. Michael Yon has spent his life covering wars, so he recognized right away what was happening. Yon joined Tucker to unveil the shadowy nonprofits that are fueling the migrant crisis currently unfolding on our southern border.
That’s the tip of the iceberg. And being called a troll is nothing. 🤷🏻♀️. People have hope for America, but America is Rome. I plan on surviving afterwards, just like Covid.
Seriously? Trump CONVINCED Johnson to destroy the dollar by supporting the endless war??? How exactly did that work or are you making baseless accusations? TDS any?
Just on the face of it, I would say how is this so given the fact that Trump was the ONLY President who kept us out of war instead of getting us into a new one.
What’s really gross is that it appears that it’s lawfare.... Biden received a not so great reception when he visited a Sheetz, so immediately after decided to sue, even thought they’d been atrempting to work to a resolution on this issue for 8 years. Really makes it seem like someone at the DOJ saw the footage and decided it was an opportune moment to strike. Even if that’s not the case,that’s the optics.
I’d bet the Sheetz owners are MAGA. That’s why.
Well they’re working aren’t they?😉
Time for the C&C community to get behind Sheetz!!
Lawfare = Terrorism
I was a General Manager at Sheetz, in multiple stores, for 13 years, throughout Pennsylvania & one Maryland store. They literally do background checks on every single applicant. Their policy was always, if the applicant has a felony, of any kind, they are NOT hired. I remember one young woman in particular that applied for an assistant position. She had moved to Pa from somewhere in the midwest. She had great credentials, was very experienced in C-store management. Sheetz would not allow me to hire her because she had a conviction for vehicular homicide in a drunk driving incident, five years prior. Even though she had stopped drinking & turned her life around. She was not a “minority”. I can give many examples. They have a “zero tolerance” policy on drug use, so a prior conviction on drugs, also makes them ineligible, and if an employee is caught with drugs, or drug paraphernalia, it is grounds for termination, regardless of race. I saw it happen many times. I am not sure what their dispute for eight years is all about. I left the company in 2016.
It’s a sticky wicket. Supposedly, convicted felons who served their time have “paid their debt to society” and should be given second chances. Many prove themselves worthy. Recidivists, not so much. Private business owners should have the right to accept or reject taking the risk and perhaps err on the side of grace, but no govt entity should dictate one way or the other.
Having to repeatedly go through background checks and being rejected solely on the basis of being a former offender, is a big contributor to recidivism. Should one who has paid his/her debt and strives to make an honest living be branded for life? Our society needs to learn forgiveness. There are plenty of criminally minded people who have never served time, and there are also plenty of decent people who need a second chance.
It is Fascism; the GVT-Corporate Complex owns and controls everyone esp. small businesses and owners and sets up impossible requirements and ever-changes them, everything is an opportunity for lawsuits and claims and violations at any given moment. Set up a DEI , pay protection $$$, and payout to all those denied employment over the past 8 years then SHEETZ can carry on as if this isn't extortion and assault on Liberty; until the next opportune time. If they set up shop in CO they can expect to celebrate employee transition-days and FAKE Wedding Anniversaries.
Thanks for your first hand knowledge here. It is interesting and helpful.
I don't really like living in a world where background checks and drug tests are required in order to be hired. I've never tasted alcohol or used drugs or had a criminal record in all my life, but I resent the idea of being treated as though one might be a criminal just to get a job or become an adoptive parent, etc.
I think those things give government and businesses too much control over ordinary lives. But the government has also made it illegal to use common sense and wisdom about deciding who to trust in hiring. So businesses turn to what seems straightforward and indiscriminating with these background check requirements. And they still get in trouble!
But it would be better if business people could use discretion and good judgment about whether someone has reformed and deserves a second chance. It would be more humane and godly. Yet it also opens up businesses to being sued if they hire someone who goes on to do something wrong. We live in a world that has become so complicated. Trust in society is going down by the day. It's become hard to treat people fairly and kindly and still stay in business, so I sympathize with Sheetz.
And unfortunately, narcissism is the real pandemic in our society.
Another aspect to consider, and I can’t speak to any other business, is that at Sheetz, every employee, regardless of position, shared in a bonus pool that was paid quarterly. As the GM, one of my obligations was to maintain tight controls, obviously the company wanted to make as much profit as possible. But I always looked at it as, my role was more beneficial to my staff. The better the controls & higher the profits (the bottom line), the better the bonus was for the staff. So, by not hiring people, with say, a criminal record for theft, it was deemed lowering the risk. Any kind of theft, whether cash or merchandise, hit the bottom line, which reduced the bonuses the staff worked so hard for. Even when the theft was recovered, my employees never saw it. It went straight to the company. I think if you were to query the staff, they would choose a co-worker without a criminal record, every time. That’s not to say that we didn’t have thieves occasionally, that had no criminal record. They were always caught. And they were always terminated.
That’s a good counterpoint to erring on the side of grace. Law-abiding employees shouldn’t have to bear the risks of working with convicted felons.
I agree with you all. I think the point I was trying to make, was that Sheetz did not discriminate against minorities. Their policies applied to everyone, equally. Unfortunately, that’s not good enough anymore.
So true. They need to look down on people—or there will be hell to pay. Their world view can’t be questioned.
I took a week off; came back things are worse. Yikes! I’m headed to the garden as well
A garden is a place where one can feel good! Even relaxed.
I did the same. Took a break from Substack and built two 4’x8’ new gardens. Three weeks and the vegetables are already growing.
Nice, my seeds are slowly starting. For me there is nothing better that working in the dirt
Is this another one of those scam accounts? I wouldn't click it.
Reported you moron Lisa
Go away
Gardening and indoor plants are infinitely better for your mental health these days.
No wonder God’s presence was in Eden- an utterly beautiful garden.
Gardening, yes. I do have a small area tilled up in back, and got it raked up yesterday so I can drop in a few pepper and tomato starts today, before the rain comes in. I haven't been able to have a vegetable garden the last two years, because of my 2021 illness. The man who now mows my yard tilled up a spot for me.
Funny story- 20 years ago we bought a new home in the CA desert. There was nothing but barren sand all around. I felt really odd for months until I got some fake plants for decor. Just seeing the fake foliage made me feel better! Then I added some real plants around the front door- definitely made us all feel at ease. My cats did not want to leave the plants to come inside! I think there’s symbiosis.
There are so many succulents that require no maintenance 💕
I was a victim of reverse discrimination in '94 as a teacher. I subbed at a school for a year and finally got the job but at the last moment a minority applied so they hired her instead to adhere to the minority quota. I knew life wasn't fair, but it wasn't even about me but the children.
I was positive and pressed on and even subbed for her BUT I don't know how she graduated HS! Her teacher notes were written in such bad English I was shocked and angry that they did not hire the best person or care that she was uneducated herself. That is the pubic education system and it is much worse 30 years later. Public ed does a background check but how to criminals and pedos get jobs?
It has been such since the 80’s when “affirmative action” was jammed down our throats. Whatever name it goes by, it destroys human flourishing. There is a strata of the population that will toe a line of it serves them, such as staying off drugs and out of trouble with the law, so they can get a job and have food and shelter. When you get food and shelter without meeting reasonable requirements for a job, why bother? And, if you’re in a job, you have to perform or get fired. When firing is not a threat to your food and shelter, and drug and other crimes are punished mildly if at all, these people will sink to the lowest level of effort they can. So that strata of people is unleashed upon us all in life and in the workplace.
All of it planned and implemented to move in the NWO by a bunch of luciferians...
It is Biblical and I just have to appreciate all the beauty and good and trust Jesus.
Exactly! You must have graduated Magna Summa Cum Laude from the School of Common Sense!
That sounds like a great bumper sticker slogan idea 😁
Yeah!
Graduated Magna Sum Laude
School of Common Sense
*Should be either Summa Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude (with the former being the highest honors). I think that would be a great bumper sticker to have 😁 Far too little respect is given to having actuel sense!
Hum? I must have been looking out the window that day!
😆
How did she get where she was?
"The soft bigotry of low expectations." - George W. Bush
AKA racism - the assumption that she couldn't do better because she's black.
Trickle-down immorality, trickle-down incompetence, trickle-down slave culture; rather than elevate and raise standards, the Massa-Class Plans make us all slaves, subjects, chattel, and lesser-thanz by diluting excellence, mal-education, mal-hiring and proclaiming that it is equitable and just and fair
Missed you, Eric…
I came to this substack for covid news and Jeff never disappointed, but lately it’s been everything but covid. I don’t blame Jeff as there is now a concerted effort to make covid disappear. Even the most lockdown states have quit doing covid case and death dashboards. Even though a strange 2 to 3 week illness had friends and family down for the count, it was called influenza, but strangely resembled all the symptoms of covid. Still, Covid is gone, but the wheels of deep state government churn on.
That's funny, when covid "broke out", flu disappeared. Now covid is gone and the flu is back? What's wrong with this picture????
I had to laugh at all the stories they put out saying covid suppressed the usual flu that has plagued the world every year since who knows when. Then suddenly it "disappears" or takes a break so covid can have center stage? I don't think so. Boy do they think we are dumb.
"...when covid "broke out", flu disappeared." More true than you know.
Personal anecdote: mid March 2020, ISO stats on the new covid I went to the CDC website. Easily found covid data among all, including for comparison the decades longstanding P&I (pneumonia and influenza) data. A couple of days later I went back for an update. P&I data was gone. Disappeared. I searched for 20 minutes. Couldn't find it anywhere, and it should have been easily located as it had been for decades. Made no sense. Knew then, 2 seconds before lockdown, something was funky. 🤔 The rest is history. Thanks for reading.
Yup. Obvious psyops but it's all ignored.
What surprises me now about C&C is not the drop in convid coverage, but surely it is now evident that Trump is and has been part of the problem?
Gee, are we forgetting who has actually been controlling the levers of power in the WH the last 3 years?
Be careful, they hang you around these parts if you say anything bad about trumperman.
Troll much?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Yep. Lord forbid you are allowed a different opinion. Thank you Anna!
Sisters (and brothers), we have just been through what is probably the most confusing period in modern history in the West excepting if you were one of those in Europe having bombs dropped on your head in WWII and then it didn't matter if you were English, German or French, it was all the same bombs. We have all been the victims of the largest psyops in human history and those who planned and executed the plandemic have been working on this long before Trump even thought of being a politician. He was no more responsible for the plandemic than Biden was, though Biden willingly went along with it and relished in the power it gave him over us. They are two men cut from entirely different bolts of cloth.
What we have to understand is that we are STILL being victimized by their psyops. They WANT us fighting each other over who is responsible for what happened. At least half of what we think we know is total psyops and misdirection. This is all part of their plan to keep us blind to the truth and to cover their trail. They throw up straw men and false leads and we fall for it, always having our eyes distracted from seeing the actual culprits responsible.
We fell for the lie that there was an actual virus, that it was spreading into a pandemic, that it was deadly, that it originated in some second-rate Chinese lab and that we needed a miracle cure that they somehow managed to cook up, manufacture and were ready to distribute in a matter of WEEKS! IT WAS ALL A LIE! It was all psyops. And still is.
Now they want to keep us fighting with each other over the false rabbit trails they feed us while they roll out their next two phases of their operation: the military take-down of the American people and the conversion of humanity into trans-humanist slaves with no free will. As we speak, a foreign army is being trained, organized and armed inside the US by the Dept of Defense drawn from the over 20 million people that have crossed over our southern border since Biden took office. There are secret military training camps in the interior of the US that are training an army of more than 2 million non-Americans that will be deployed against us when the time is ripe. The fight over the border is just more theater to distract us. The border will never be closed as long as Biden is in office but in any event, the invasion is a fait accompli. It is too late.
The plandemic itself was a military campaign, planned and executed by the US Dept of Defense using politicians and drug companies as fronts. The bio-weapon shot was developed and manufactured long before the "covid" was released, all on Defense Dept contracts under military law. Think about it. Even without direct evidence, no other organization has the capacity, skill set and funding to create such a campaign other than the US Defense Dept. But Dr. David Martin has documented the actual evidence proving all of this. Dr. Ana Mihalcea along with others have documented the proof of the trans-humanist design of the bio-weapon shot. It is heavy reading but if you have not familiarized yourself with their material, then you are uninformed.
For more evidence, see these two links:
US Military is the Largest Investor in mRNA Synthetic Biology
(You can scroll down and click on 'read for free')
https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/us-military-is-the-largest-investor-f27
America is being invaded and destroyed with the help of our leaders. Michael Yon has spent his life covering wars, so he recognized right away what was happening. Yon joined Tucker to unveil the shadowy nonprofits that are fueling the migrant crisis currently unfolding on our southern border.
https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-michael-yon-border-invasion/
That’s the tip of the iceberg. And being called a troll is nothing. 🤷🏻♀️. People have hope for America, but America is Rome. I plan on surviving afterwards, just like Covid.
Amen
I rarely read any news anymore cuz it’s just a matter of time. Tick tock. Plz keep posting links, always Interesting!
When I read the exchange, I was half thinking she was engaging in sarcasm but it got my fingers to typing lol. I'm going to post this in the morning.
If the garden is large, may I suggest some “justice-involved individuals" to assist in your efforts?
Anybody know what happened to that yellow-handled shovel?
Did seem rather odd that, as he walked out of the yard, anyone could be so very well-endowed.
That was funny. You gave me a smile.
exactly
All of you mirror exactly how I feel! Back to the garden is an excellent idea!
Just had to get two background checks to do a part-time (post-retirement) lifeguarding job. I'm a 60+ year old white chick. So........
I waited only for C&C to show up, now can go out to garden.
Yes it does—- grounding!
All a distraction until they build enough drones and satellites to destroy all humans on Earth:
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/5g-satellites-a-threat-to-all-life
Welcome back Eric. We missed you!
Welcome back Eric!
The news never changes, just the characters do.
Welcome back, Eric!
yeah...Johnson was "playing footsies" with TRUMP who convinced him to DESTROY THE DOLLAR FURTHER...and SLAUGHTER MORE CIVILIANS...
Seriously? Trump CONVINCED Johnson to destroy the dollar by supporting the endless war??? How exactly did that work or are you making baseless accusations? TDS any?
Just on the face of it, I would say how is this so given the fact that Trump was the ONLY President who kept us out of war instead of getting us into a new one.
Is that why they had that meeting? 🤔