Ask Jack: entrance music, zero tolerance, and the employment of the week

The Alamy employers ask, "What is your personal entrance music?" Pro tip: Do not say "Twisted Sister".

Leal "Ask Jack" Ann reader says ...

I'm in my 50s, looking for a job. At the request of the company asks "what song would play as you enter the room." My song goes back in the 70s, the age considered automatically give away my age in this economy. Should I Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift you hear this application, or I can be honest and call it a song that probably never heard of?

Come on, Ann, everyone knows that Taylor Swift is soooo 2014th Well, that's another entry for our stupid questions Applications- file. What could be the "entrance music" You may have with your ability to perform a job to do? Of course, the musical preferences say a lot about a person, but you are applying for a job, not a complete OkCupid profile.

Well, when they play a game, if you can. Forget your own taste, and do not fall in the age discrimination case. Think of it as a job for your company party DJ. What would they want to hear? He's a young, nervous? A familiar environment? If you have a mechanical bull in the lobby? Choose a great success in recent years; Wikipedia can help you find them. Keywords titles such as gain, be a star, do not give up, blah, blah, blah, could also help. Just make sure not to mention classic Johnny Paycheck "take this job and shove it."

We are Ann Andy, who says:

Yesterday was an interesting day at work. We had a piss test surprise. Well, we lost three people. I do not know why, if you are hired to do a job, and they say no, you're fired. I think I'm glad I [link] a long time ago. I hope the guy who will lose jobs getting smarter in life.

This is known and provided that the employer complies state and federal laws and implemented consistent policy, which is fine as a "zero tolerance". (Even the Americans with Disabilities Act does not authorize the use of marijuana medically recognized in the workplace for people.) Employers have different reasons for conducting the tests, but security is high. I personally do not believe that a drug-out guy operating heavy machinery. So it really depends on the type of work when a warning or guidance should be enough to be the first option. I want to you in the best option for his former colleagues (cough cough, Professional, cough cough.) - Know the rules to work, guys! Unfortunately, no one seems to have a zero-tolerance policy for Dummies at work.

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Are you in or around Limestone, Maine, and have the desire, on the other side of zero tolerance debate? Then apply this security officials work! They will participate in the "in the [young] were disciplinary procedures, including zero tolerance for violence and drugs." Not the kind of law and order, then do your own research on AOL work . Come on, just try it, everybody does that ...