# Most inappropriate questions on a job application

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inappropriate-questions-on-a-job-application/399028>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 6, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inappropriate-questions-on-a-job-application/399028 "2007-04-06T20:24:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inappropriate-questions-on-a-job-application/399028/61 "2007-04-09T18:52:22Z")

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> [@Alistair McCello](#):
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> Everyone has tried drugs at one time or another, when was the last time you got high?

Correct response: “What time is it?”

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inappropriate-questions-on-a-job-application/399028/62 "2007-04-09T19:26:20Z")

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[QUOTE=fetus]  
Correct response: “What time is it?”  
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Dude, you’re so high, your computer is getting a contact high and double posting! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inappropriate-questions-on-a-job-application/399028/63 "2007-04-09T19:35:34Z")

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Actually, I’m on the physical edge of my neighbor’s wireless network and my connection is fading in and out. (Thanks to the roommate, who makes at least twice as much as I do, deciding not to pay his half of the cable Internet bill.) I imagine my browser got disconnected, thought the original post didn’t go through, and tried to slam it through again.

But I _did_ say that to a doctor once, in response to that very same question.

Edit: Who says the computer’s not the one getting high?

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**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inappropriate-questions-on-a-job-application/399028/64 "2007-04-09T19:57:55Z")

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I’ve never seen this on an application, but once at an interview, I was asked what I’d do if I was physically assaulted.

“Do you mean, like, with a crowbar or something?”

“Just tell us how you’d handle the situation.”

Thank Og I never got _that_ job.

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