Things you need to show to start a contract

[courtg9000]

For my first and only permie job I was handed a thick questionnaire by the company doctor (of all people).

It started off with the usual tombstone data, race, age, gender, childhood diseases, STDs (!??!!) then it got weird.

The female-only section (quaint, eh?) had a long list including;

Number of children born:
Number of abortions:
Number of miscarriages:
Number of stillbirths:

My favourites were the “Have-you-evers”:

Have you ever smoked cannabis?
Have you ever used cocaine?
Have you ever used heroin?

Mental health:
Would you describe your outlook on life as helpless, or lonely?

The questions in the last half of the questionnaire were all like this.
I didn't fill it out.


Have I ever smoked grass? Even once?? Of course not.

Going to back to 1997 when I did my SC clearance the question on the form was. Have you ever been involved in an attempt to overthrow the government? I was filling mine in a few days after the 1997 general election!

[Zigenare]

Going to back to 1997 when I did my SC clearance the question on the form was. Have you ever been involved in an attempt to overthrow the government? I was filling mine in a few days after the 1997 general election!

Does anyone remember when one of the questions on the form was "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the following organisations?" and one of the said organisations was the "Welsh Nationalists"?

[sadkingbilly]

Does anyone remember when one of the questions on the form was "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the following organisations?" and one of the said organisations was the "Welsh Nationalists"?

yep, that was when they were firebombing holiday homes (in a lovely welcoming way, of course)

[Zigenare]

yep, that was when they were firebombing holiday homes (in a lovely welcoming way, of course)

Nothing like coming home to a lovely fire...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Does anyone remember when one of the questions on the form was "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the following organisations?" and one of the said organisations was the "Welsh Nationalists"?

Ah, dear dead days beyond recall in the 60s when the FWA had more guns than the IRA (as it was then before the Troubles).

And the 3 gun salute* for Prince Charles as he made his way to the Investiture. .

*Blowing up pipelines** watering the English IIRC.

**And themselves The "Abergele "Martyrs"".

Nothing like coming home to a lovely fire...

Buy a cottage in Wales. (c) Not the Nine o'clock News. .

When Prince Charles was making his way to the castle an explosion was heard in the distance.

Riding in his carriage, the prince turned to the Secretary of Wales George Thomas and asked what caused the blast, wrote Thomas in his book.

He was told it was the "royal salute". Prince Charles replied: "If so, it was a peculiar royal salute."

George Thomas replied: "There are peculiar people up there."

He was right enough. .