Not necessarily, but it does tend to lack originality or truly useful information about the applicant. Naturally the most important required information for local job applications are: age, weight, marital status, and of course … the photograph.
Not necessarily, but it does tend to lack originality or truly useful information about the applicant. Naturally the most important required information for local job applications are: age, weight, marital status, and of course … the photograph.[/quote]
You forgot about your blood group!
How will I know what kind of person you are if I don’t know your blood group? 
[quote=“dreamer”]You forgot about your blood group!
How will I know what kind of person you are if I don’t know your blood group? [/quote]
An unforgivable oversight on my part. You are absolutely right, dreamer. 
Blood type… that one makes me laugh every time. Definitely belongs high on that list.
I got asked the blood group question a lot and always received looks of suspicion when I said I didn’t have a clue.
so what is the best blood group to have? I’ve heard bad things about AB…I’m a B, but I think O blood people seem like better team players. Maybe I’ll go with O.
The cynical among us might suggest that local employers feel life-threateningly uncomfortable if not afforded the opportunity to discriminate using a [color=red]multiplicity [/color]of [color=red]irrelevant [/color]variables.
Same here.
I then usually explain that, as far as I know, most people where I come from are not aware of their blood type, and that this doesn’t seem to bother anyone very much.
In response I usually get the polite smile and nod that says “This guy does not even know his own blood type – and now he’s trying to claim that this is normal? Oh well, let’s just smile and nod and let him save face. He’s probably just a little slow, poor chap.”