Halifax job applicants queried on sex with animals

[Cowboy89]

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=953514


Halifax municipal officials are reviewing the merits of polygraph testing after a job applicant complained she was humiliated by a screening test that asked if she had ever had sex with animals, committed incest or experienced suicidal thoughts.


I wonder under what basis for an administrative role would it be necessary to polygraph applicants about beastiality. :eek:

[Kipper is King]

Well, if she mentioned she was a descendant of Catherine the Great, then it's a totally legitimate question!:w00t:

[Thunderball]

I wonder how answering yes to any of those questions would disqualify one to work for the public sector? Especially bearing in the mind the nature of Canadian society.

[HalifaxDrunk]

Well at least we ask down here, I am confident I do not work with any beastialitors. Can you say the same thing? :D

[Gozer]

They screen for incest?

Kinda a shame that they won't let anyone that grew up in Nova Scotia work for their city.

[Kipper is King]

" Well, I had sex with an Edmontonian once. Does that count?":D

[Kerplunk]

I wonder under what basis for an administrative role would it be necessary to polygraph applicants about beastiality. :eek:
K9 unit :bag:

[Cowboy89]

" Well, I had sex with an Edmontonian once. Does that count?":D

Leave your sister out of this! :eek:

[Locke]

Its a legit question, especially if they're applying for a job at a petting zoo...

"Petting zoo, petting zoo....that is NOT petting!"

[Russic]

well if it was a heavy petting zoo then maybe ...

[LChoy]

I was told that when you are put under the polygraph for top secret clearances, the RCMP guys really go all out and ask all sorts of embarassing questions, just to get a response and see if you would lie about it

[metallicat]

You want to know what sort of questions they ask on polygraphs in Alberta, just go and read the personal disclosure forms for the CPS and the EPS.

http://calgarypolice.ca/recruiting/pdf/personal_disclosure.pdf
http://www.joineps.ca/ApplicationProcess/NewApplicants/~/media/Join%20EPS/Files/PersonalDisclosureForm.ashx

[stang]

You want to know what sort of questions they ask on polygraphs in Alberta, just go and read the personal disclosure forms for the CPS and the EPS.

http://calgarypolice.ca/recruiting/pdf/personal_disclosure.pdf
http://www.joineps.ca/ApplicationProcess/NewApplicants/~/media/Join%20EPS/Files/PersonalDisclosureForm.ashx


Holy Crap thats alot of questions


51. Are you aware of any reasons that you may not be qualified to be a Police
Officer with the Calgary Police Service?


Yes questions 1-50 :bag:

[icarus]

Will they still hire you if you have kissed a cod?

[Resolute 14]

I love question 51. Basically: "Are you so dumb that you will voluntarily disqualify yourself?"

[jar_e]

Yeah I've been asked those questions with the city...not a fun experience;)

[stang]

Did you just lie??

[jayswin]

I love question 51. Basically: "Are you so dumb that you will voluntarily disqualify yourself?"


But isn't the point of that question to get you to think of anything bad you've done in your past that you didn't get caught for.

IE You killed a hooker, then had sex with her, then did a line of blow off her dead body, then chopped her body up and fed it to your dog, then killed your dog before it could shart out any evidence, then had sex with your dead dog, while doing a rail off it's body and then throwing your dead dog in the bow river. Then when the officer asks question #51, you'll remember doing this, and if you answer "no" you'll fail the polygraph.

[jar_e]

Did you just lie??

Both times I had to fill out a personal disclosure form I also had to be administered a polygraph...so I had to be honest...but i had nothing to hide (atleast on that question) :bag:

[Burninator]

On the other hand, it is possible that one of the main reasons so many government, law enforcement and private sector employers want to use polygraphs is that they think the test will frighten away liars and cheats who are seeking jobs, or it will frighten confessions out of those accused of wrongdoing. In other words, the users of the machine don't really believe it can detect lies, but they know that the people they administer it to think the machine can catch them in a lie. So, the result is the same as if the test really worked: they don't hire the liar/cheat and they catch the dishonest employee

http://skepdic.com/polygrap.html

I'm not a fan of polygraphs. There is a very good reason our courts don't use them.