Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

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22 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video clip (Mike Andes) where multiple speakers discuss hiring people with criminal pasts in the home-service industry. Speakers A and C recount youthful involvement with guns and getting into trouble as teens; Speaker A describes recruiting bored teens into work. Mike Andes praises the mission of hiring ex-felons but warns against leading with that message publicly because customers primarily care about service and perceived risk. The clip highlights tension between a social mission (hiring to help at-risk youth/ex-offenders) and customer risk perceptions.

I was 13, I had a AK47 on me like 5, 10 years. Something for like every bullet that's in here it was like a hundred round clip in there.
I don't recommend you lead the story with the fact that you were an ex felon and then you hire ex felons. That's your mission statement and I think that's awesome. That's why I'm willing to support it.
Like I wish I had somebody to teach me this at they age. I was bringing on 13, 14 year olds and they didn't have nothing to do. Bored. That's when I started getting in trouble.
We were just bad around that time just doing young and dumb stuff and I end up just got caught with it.
But the customer does not care about your mission. They called you because they want their lawn mowed. They're just going off of what they hear and they see online or someone's like I don't want them on my property. That's just a higher degree of risk. They're selfish everyone in life. They just want what's good for them.
Yeah.