. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . dby book and other peddlars, go-getcers, and evidencedin a letter, just passed to me for attention. It bearsthe heading of an employment bureau and is in re-gard to a man seeking emploNinent and giving thisoffice for reference. It is a questionnaire and thelist of questions numbers twenty-three, among which,in addition to the reasonable inquiries relative to theapplicants occupation, length of service and ability,are imposed the foUomng, each question separate andwith space for reply:—Is he honest, —truthful,—loyal,—prompt, —punctual, —dependable?Then
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . dby book and other peddlars, go-getcers, and evidencedin a letter, just passed to me for attention. It bearsthe heading of an employment bureau and is in re-gard to a man seeking emploNinent and giving thisoffice for reference. It is a questionnaire and thelist of questions numbers twenty-three, among which,in addition to the reasonable inquiries relative to theapplicants occupation, length of service and ability,are imposed the foUomng, each question separate andwith space for reply:—Is he honest, —truthful,—loyal,—prompt, —punctual, —dependable?Then follows questions regarding his personal a])-pearance, habits and vices: Does he gamble,—smoke, —drink? Finally a list of his relativesand his former employers is requested. Some nerve!Is it not an im]K>rtinence and imposition to submitsuch a questionnaire to a business office and expect itanswered. Only the applicants own conscience know^the to the queer queries. 22 Baltmiore and Ohio Magazine, October, iq2 v.
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