Sometimes it pays to "discover"

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While responding to another topic about crappy jobs, it brought back to mind that I once had a coworker that had said some mildly disturbing things to me in regards to having attempted to kill someone a few doors from where I lived. Not once in the "reflections of mistakes Ive made" kind of talk, but regularly ongoing... I recently found out that those statements he had made WERE true, and the incidents (which included four felony counts of assault w/ deadly weapon and resisting/obstructing) were just a couple of months before he was hired to work with me. I believe that sometimes mistakes are made, but there were other incidents actually at work that made me worry about my over all safety. I finally got curious and used the state's parolee/inmate search and discovered I was working alone several times a week with several people recently arrested for armed offenses and attempted rape. I realize that people ARE sometimes falsely arrested and there ARE cases of self defense... but yikes! Two of these men made me very very uncomfortable to work with and frightened me. I filed a grievance against one, only later to find out that someone had removed it from my employee file. Has anything like this happened to you? Am I the only one who finds this slightly disturbing?