I had a similar experience with Target...also Home Depot.

That sucks - I am so sorry ...

Thanks for the update. Don't give up. Good luck!

Basically, customer service jobs are out for RSO's.
Your best bet is to look into production/manufacturing jobs. It may be harder(and "monkey work") but I bet it pays more than Target(Where I will not spend a dime at, for different reasons), or Wallyworld etc....

Yup I've tried applying for these companies also and now I know why and of they to this to anyone on the registery I'll never apply for them what so ever

And coastie you are right a lot of production jobs that pay better then working retail but some of those jobs pay the same amount as working on retail

They actually said they terminated your employment because of your RSO status?

THAT IS AN EEOC VIOLATION AND YOU NEED TO GET AN ATTORNEY NOW!

I do hope they sent that to you in writing... You are a felon and a protected class... GET AN ATTORNEY NOW!!!!

Actually wis even though this is happens all the time to an eso a lot of major companies won't hire us because where on the registery hell a lot of them won't even hire a anytime of felon whose been to prison seems like EEOC doesn't pertain to those with felonies period

I've seen it work here on WI. It is with looking into.

Felons are not a protected class federally.

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/

Even with new legislation to "ban the box", you would have to be out of your mind to think this applies to RSOs. No politician can afford to be seen as soft on sex offenders. Bleeding heart liberalism stops with low level drug offenders at the moment. Wont even talk about the other side in case people would get their panties in a twist.

I have been searching for the case in Wisconsin that, basically the same thing happened to a GPS wearer. he was walked out because of it. It was back in 2012, started in April and ended sometime by October/November time frame. He filed a lawsuit and it did settle, I just can't seem to find the records for it, although I did find his complaint in my digging...

It might be just a state law he used, but it is worth checking out when someone fires someone for a record when it may have nothing to do with their daily work or the job they are in at all. I know that the guy I'm talking about it didn't have anything to do with the job or the people that worked there, they just made the mistake of saying that it was because of the conviction and the GPS bracelet.

I'll keep looking but if it settled I may not find much at all.

The irony of what you folks write about is that that the Target Stores financially profit off of inmate slave labor

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

"At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons. The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor."

Of course, these same companies have policies against hiring ex con's with a felony history, and perhaps, that is the greatest irony of them all, i.e. they will use felons in prison, but then refuse to hire them once they are released from prison.

It's ironic they want to make these man/women work for pennies on the dollar but won't hire them when they get released