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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Lieing to get a job
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 10:35:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 10:35:28 1987
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wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart) writes:
> :In article <158@tijc02.UUCP>, pjs269@tijc02.UUCP writes:
> :> When I was interviewing for a job ...
> :> One of the questions on the application was (paraphrased):
> :> 	Would you be willing to work on a defense contract?
> :> I answered this question honestly as "no".  During the interview the
> :> interviewer spent five minutes asking me why.....
> :>	[interviewer's prejudices caused rejection]

You might try a "baffle them with bullshit" approach: Many (if not
most) "defense contracts" aren't things that directly kill people.
(Ahhh!  The efficiency of the US Gov't in action.)  Even a lot of pure
mathematics research is funded through the "Office of Naval Research".
So, if you (1) aren't fundamentally pacifist, but rather are squeamish
about making nuclear missiles, and (2) aren't so offended by DoD that
you won't touch their money for anything, you can make this
distinction clear to the interviewer.  That way you can avoid things
you don't like, but not get branded as a "pacifist troublemaker".

Dale
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