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Re: Testing job applicants
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:16:07 +0000, Charles Richmond
<richmond@plano.net> wrote:
>Adam Anderson wrote:
>>
>> What if you so good at cheating that you can successfully do it in the real
>> world as well as in exams to the extent that your success rate is higher
>> than it would be if you had relied on actually learning the information.
>> Learning and cheating are both means. Its the result that will ALWAYS
>> count.
>>
>I disagree. What about character, morality, and honesty? Those virtues count
>too...maybe in a different way. Chances are you will *not* always be able to
>get by cheating your way through life, but just suppose for a moment that you
>could. What kind of a sick, twisted mind are you growing here? Have you *no*
>conscience? What have you gained if you win the world, and lose your only soul?
>Those who place their own private desires over what is honest are the ones who
>inflict a huge amount of the misery in this world. I choose to believe that there
>is a special place in hell for people like this. Often even their own lives
>do *not*
>turn out well. As in: What goes around comes around.
Have you honestly never dealt with PHBs/PHMs?
Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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