[joshuaellinger]

A friend of mine had a similar issue. Drug-related. No big company would hire him. Hell, my contract with a large company said I couldn't hire him even if I wanted to.

Oddly enough, the way he got around it was to start his own consulting company and hide behind it. Nobody would hire him as an "employee" but they would hire his company without asking about his personal history. Seems like a big loophole but it worked.

[raincom]

Even that loophole does not work, if the client insists on background checks of the people who work for consulting companies. Big companies ask staffing companies to submit background reports.

[anoncoward111]

At which point, unfortunatelym doing business with big companies is no longer a time-efficient pursuit.

Despite how much I hate to say it, this world is still extremely political and illogical and laws/policies/reality are shaped by those with the deepest pockets and biggest sticks.