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From what I read on his application he was a recent parolee having spent at least seven years in the pen for armed robbery.  The initial conversation was positive, he was contrite and repentant for his past offences.  It was a surprise...and an alarm, when he again appeared in my office a few days later early in the evening after all other workers had gone home for the day.  His was a tangled eye look and disheveled pleading for, demanding a job.  Oh, and I should add that he proceeded to light up a marijuana joint in midstream discussion as well.   My classes in management had not prepared me at all for these encounters.  The first "real" job out of college was with what could best be described as a struggling, rag tag manufacturing operation--a machine shop area with the mist of cutting oil wafting through the air, another shop where forged metals were annealed (heat treated), and a final assembly and shipping department.  Doug...