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Post by Drifter on Sept 7, 2020 20:15:21 GMT -5
Kroger hires homeless woman who slept in the grocery store's parking lotAfter being homeless for a year, LaShenda Williams had nearly given up hope. After many months of living out of her car that was parked in a Kroger grocery store's lot, LaShenda Williams was feeling increasingly hopeless. Today, thanks to one attentive hiring manager, that supermarket has now welcomed her with a job and a fresh start. Williams, who has faced drug addiction and abuse, was homeless for about a year. During the day she would drive around to different locations, but most nights she would park outside of the same Kroger. “I would lean my seat all the way back so no one would see me because, you know, I knew I wasn’t supposed to be there,” Williams told NBC Nightly News. Williams' fate changed when she met Kroger employee Jackie Vandal, who oversees hiring at the store location where Williams would often park. Late last year, Vandal told her about an upcoming job fair. On the day of the job fair, Williams was one of the first applicants, Vandal recalled. Vandal spent several hours helping Williams fill out the job application online. After reviewing Williams credentials, she then hired her on the spot. Williams started to work at Kroger in December, just a few days after the job fair. She currently monitors and assists customers in the self-checkout lanes. After eight months on the job, Williams had earned enough money to move into her own one-bedroom apartment, which her new co-workers helped her set up and furnish. Read more here
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Post by Kady on Sept 8, 2020 13:27:37 GMT -5
Nice story....a helping hand can change people's lives.
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Post by tnthomas on Sept 9, 2020 15:47:47 GMT -5
Good to hear that one homeless person got a chance to rejoin mainstream society. I wish there were better solutions available for the 500,000+ homeless in the US. The city of Los Angeles is planning to spend $800 million dollars in the coming year to lessen the homeless problem. I doubt that there will be much noticeable change....
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Post by 2old on Sept 17, 2020 19:29:57 GMT -5
So many of the homeless are there of their own choice. Yet, there are a significant number who have fallen on hard times. Sometimes it has been drug or alcohol addictions. Sometimes loss of a job and unable to secure another before finding themselves out on the street. In this case, this lady was rescued by an angel, but needed to make the most of this opportunity. It certainly sounds as if she did!!!!
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Post by birdgal on Sept 27, 2020 14:28:15 GMT -5
Their own choice? Maybe if their "choice" is to be packed into a shelter with drug addicts, drunks, theives, and folks with mental problems, the street is probably a much better choice.
There are towns here on Long Island, NY with giant mansions as the main house and servants quarters out back on the property. Many of these homes have 1 or 2 people living there. While women and men a town away choose the street rather than a run down building called a shelter.
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Post by 2old on Oct 1, 2020 6:26:49 GMT -5
Their own choice? Maybe if their "choice" is to be packed into a shelter with drug addicts, drunks, theives, and folks with mental problems, the street is probably a much better choice. There are towns here on Long Island, NY with giant mansions as the main house and servants quarters out back on the property. Many of these homes have 1 or 2 people living there. While women and men a town away choose the street rather than a run down building called a shelter. We have a granddaughter who chose to live homeless for a couple years. She has some severe mental deficiencies. Her mother and my wife rented a nice apartment for her. She wouldn't stay there. She would spend a couple nights, leave food out and spoiling. We offered for her to use our laundry to wash clothes, but she would just go to a church sponsored, used clothing facility and get clean ones. We worked with local mental health facilities, but she turned 18 and couldn't be forced into treatment. If the weather got bad, she would call 911 and threaten suicide. They would transport her to an emergency mental health facility where she would stay for 24 to 48 hours, then check herself out. Caused lots of heartache. About 18 months ago, she seems to have found herself... a little. She lives with her boyfriend and his mother. He, too, has some mental deficiencies. They both work full time in a facility that hires handicapped and seem dedicated to their work. We cross our fingers that she has turned a corner. Just never know. But... she did "choose" to live on the streets, sleeping on park benches and under a bridge, rather than live "normally". It is impossible to put yourself in a mind where the wires just don't connect and understand how thoughts are processed.
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