Far East Cynic

Another job I won’t get…….

Specifically, any job in the Obama administration. So much for that Ambassador to Thailand gig……….

The questionnaire includes 63 requests for personal and professional records, some covering applicants’ spouses and grown children as well, that are forcing job-seekers to rummage from basements to attics, in shoe boxes, diaries and computer archives to document both their achievements and missteps.

Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.

The application also asks applicants to “please list all aliases or ‘handles’ you have used to communicate on the Internet.”

That, last bit of course, depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is. Surely they could not be talking about innocent blog posts like this, could they? Or this? What happens if you answer yes to the “Do you really like drinking?” question?

Give it up pal-there are not enough Skycaps in the world to get all of your baggage to the curb!

Seems to me, under those criteria, some of America’s greatest leaders would never have gotten on the stage.

  1. 2 points. First (Q#60) have they not heard of HIPA? Second,(Q#59) other than some areas such as Chicago / Ill, DC and NYC they rest of us still live in a country where we do not have to register our firearms, yet.