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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article <52e34a9d$0$52778$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Dimensional   
   Traveler  wrote:   
   > On 1/24/2014 5:17 PM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > > In article , robban@clubtelco.com   
   > > says...   
   > >> On 25/01/2014 7:21 am, John F. Eldredge wrote:   
   > >>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:10:39 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> Yep, I've done and be in numerous surveys too, and they're all   
   > >>>> completely worthless due to many varying reasons, mostly thanks to the   
   > >>>> idiotic and misleading way the "results" are reported.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> My pet peeve with surveys is that the correct answer to a question is   
   > >>> often "none of the above", yet very few surveys allow this as a choice.   
   > >>> Online surveys, in particular, usually won't let you save the results   
   > >>> until you have chosen one of the answers the survey-writer supplied.   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >> Very true. I do a lot of online surveys, and in the box most of them   
   > >> provide for comments, I find myself writing time and time again "In   
   > >> Question X, you forced me to lie because...".   
   > >   
   > > It's not just surveys.  I was helping somebody fill out an employment   
   > > application for a major hotel chain the other day and at one point it   
   > > has a section on previous employment and for each one it wants "reason   
   > > for leaving", with the choices being "Terminated, Promoted, Resigned,   
   > > Laid Off".  There's no option for "Still employed at this job" and it   
   > > won't submit the application until you pick one of the four.   
   > >   
   > > In the previous section, dates of employment, there's an option "to   
   > > present" that one would expect to disable the "reason for leaving"   
   > > requirement, but it doesn't.   
   >   
   > And why would a company want to hire someone who has already proven they   
   > are disloyal enough to look for another job while they already have one?   
   >   (Keep in mind that the person tossing out applications is probably   
   > thinking "why would we hire anyone so bad they don't already have a job?".)   
      
   That sounds similar to the silliness where no company will hire you   
   because you don't have experience, and you can't get experience because   
   no company will hire you.  :-(   
      
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