This just popped in my head. What are the strangest questions you have ever seen on a job application? When I first moved away from home in 1984 I filled out an application that asked if I had regular menstrual cycles. It was for a fast food place.
Ex husband worked at a gas station that had asked him if he was a member of the communist party. Then he had to sign a paper that said he was truthful about not being a communist.
Oh, and when we bought our first house (we then had a 7 month old child), we were asked if we planned another child in the next 3 years. It wasn't ON the application for a mortgage loan, but the loan officer verbally asked it.
We just looked at him and said "If that was a legal question to ask, it should be on the written application, no?"
Oh, and I was fired from a job when I became pregnant. Back then, employers thought they could get away with it. It took til after my child arrived, but the state made that company pay me back pay and damages!
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I have had a few doozies with verbal questions.
"When are you planning to have children?"
"Will you pass the drug test? Will you pass the background check? ARE YOU SURE???"
"Do you know how to make brownies?"
"Can you explain these gaps in your work history?" (Notable only because THERE WEREN'T ANY. Literally. I kept my job when I went to college, so there were no gaps at all for over six years.)
And of course:
"Sooo. . . How do you say your name? Can you repeat that?"
I was in a management position years ago and we had to go to a seminar sponsored by the EEOC. There are a zillion questions you can't ask but you can say things like, "tell me about yourself". You can't even ask how they will get to work unless the job requires driving your own vehicle.
my work visa applications for the USA asked some weird questions. My favorite was "have you ever been a spy against the government of the USA" and I always thought that if someone WAS a spy, they wouldn't answer that question honestly anyways. Unless they were a really really bad spy.
The application also had the communist question, as well as questions about my experience with laser and/or nuclear technology. It asked if I had ever worked as a prostitute. Lots of strange things.
It's so the manhole cover doesn't fall into the manhole. Any other shape would allow for the cover to be turned, and then fall into the hole.
So how does a having a round cover prevent it from falling into a round hole?
Take a perfectly fitting pot lid, turn it every w as y possible and and try to get it to fall into the bottom of the pot. Now take a shoe box, if you turn the lid on it's side and move it around it can slide down into the bottom of the box.
my work visa applications for the USA asked some weird questions. My favorite was "have you ever been a spy against the government of the USA" and I always thought that if someone WAS a spy, they wouldn't answer that question honestly anyways. Unless they were a really really bad spy.
The application also had the communist question, as well as questions about my experience with laser and/or nuclear technology. It asked if I had ever worked as a prostitute. Lots of strange things.
my work visa applications for the USA asked some weird questions. My favorite was "have you ever been a spy against the government of the USA" and I always thought that if someone WAS a spy, they wouldn't answer that question honestly anyways. Unless they were a really really bad spy.
The application also had the communist question, as well as questions about my experience with laser and/or nuclear technology. It asked if I had ever worked as a prostitute. Lots of strange things.
It's so the manhole cover doesn't fall into the manhole. Any other shape would allow for the cover to be turned, and then fall into the hole.
So how does a having a round cover prevent it from falling into a round hole?
I'm guessing at the diameter, but the principle applies:
A 30 inch diameter cast iron manhole cover will be sitting in a 31 inch metal ring, with a two inch lip inside.
So the diameter of the inside lip the cover actually sits on, is 27 inches.
The 30 inch ring won't go through the 27 inch cast iron circle (lip), no matter how it's turned or tipped.
If it was a square, 30 inches on each side, sitting on a lip that's 27 inches on each side, anyone who could pick it up could easily turn it a little and tip it, so it would fall through the opening.
Now, your homework assignment is to imagine a lot of other shapes, and figure out whether a vandal with a crow bar could make them fall through the opening. Please submit your answers by noon.
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It's so the manhole cover doesn't fall into the manhole. Any other shape would allow for the cover to be turned, and then fall into the hole.
So how does a having a round cover prevent it from falling into a round hole?
I'm guessing at the diameter, but the principle applies:
A 30 inch diameter cast iron manhole cover will be sitting in a 31 inch metal ring, with a two inch lip inside.
So the diameter of the inside lip the cover actually sits on, is 27 inches.
The 30 inch ring won't go through the 27 inch cast iron circle (lip), no matter how it's turned or tipped.
If it was a square, 30 inches on each side, sitting on a lip that's 27 inches on each side, anyone who could pick it up could easily turn it a little and tip it, so it would fall through the opening.
Now, your homework assignment is to imagine a lot of other shapes, and figure out whether a vandal with a crow bar could make them fall through the opening. Please submit your answers by noon.
But if a square is 30 inches, it won't fit through a 27 inch hole.
Thanks to you and SB for explaining but I just don't get it.
It's so the manhole cover doesn't fall into the manhole. Any other shape would allow for the cover to be turned, and then fall into the hole.
So how does a having a round cover prevent it from falling into a round hole?
I'm guessing at the diameter, but the principle applies:
A 30 inch diameter cast iron manhole cover will be sitting in a 31 inch metal ring, with a two inch lip inside.
So the diameter of the inside lip the cover actually sits on, is 27 inches.
The 30 inch ring won't go through the 27 inch cast iron circle (lip), no matter how it's turned or tipped.
If it was a square, 30 inches on each side, sitting on a lip that's 27 inches on each side, anyone who could pick it up could easily turn it a little and tip it, so it would fall through the opening.
Now, your homework assignment is to imagine a lot of other shapes, and figure out whether a vandal with a crow bar could make them fall through the opening. Please submit your answers by noon.
But if a square is 30 inches, it won't fit through a 27 inch hole.
Thanks to you and SB for explaining but I just don't get it.
The longest side of a 30" square is 30 inches. Pick up the square, hold it by the middle of one side, then rotate it 45 degrees.
Label the corners a, b, c, d.
the distance between a and b is 30 inches,
But the distance (looking at the opening, which is 27 inches on each side) between a and c, or between b and d, is 38.2 inches. The 30 inch square will easily fall through at that angle.
But with circles, the narrowest diameter of the cover is 30 inches across, no matter what the angle is. And the widest diameter of that opening is still 27 inches.
Remember that these are made of heavy cast iron, and won't bend or flex even under the weight of a very heavy vehicle.
-- Edited by ed11563 on Sunday 21st of December 2014 09:25:56 AM
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