Breathing Tax

The Federal and state governments are going broke. They are in desperate straits and are looking to raise money in any way possible. Fees, fines and penalties are all increasing with no let up in sight. DUI tolerances are going down. Red light cameras are decreasing by a half a second when yellow which is projected to raise millions in Tampa, Fl. Vehicle registration fees have doubled and we feel fortunate that gas is only $3.50 per gallon.

Carbon neutral has become the mantra of misguided elites. Cap and trade for 'carbon credits' is seen as a way to limit greenhouse gases however it is just another fraud. The presumption that carbon based life forms, (all people, plants and animals) are the problem is a nightmare idea.

The following list of new taxes could be implemented as reverse psychology to save us from our current insanity.

• A 'leave your house tax' - For generally using more air and space. Satellites and drones could help with this.
• Entering a building with air conditioning tax- You are bringing body heat into an air conditioned environment- you must pay.
• Road usage tax - Per mile information can be collected on all new car black box recorders and GPS systems that can then be sent to the motorist.
• Eating establishment tax - You are eating in a restaurant, that requires significant energy to produce food for you, pay the tax.
• National park tax - You are using a state or federal resource, of course, there must be a tax levied.
• Turning 21 tax - You are now an adult and as such must pay for your adult usage of all resources.
• Place of worship tax - Property tax on all places of worship.
• Social Services tax- All social services, SSI, SSDI, Welfare,  Health Dept,WIC - Use of these services incurs a tax.
• Mail tax - you want mail delivered? pay the tax, optional delivery.
• Stupidity tax - If two or more adults sign affidavits attesting to your general stupidity, you will be taxed for it. 
• Entertainment tax- Movie theaters, concerts- anything deemed as 'entertainment' - a tax is levied.
• Baggage fee tax- The airlines are getting rich collecting it, why not tax it?
• Excessive talking tax- If a recording can prove that you over talked, rambled on excessively or just would not shut up, you will be taxed.
• Excessive cell phone usage tax - If a cell phone has become a body part and you cannot seperate your physical person from it, you must pay the tax.
• Happy tax- Once again, if two adults can confirm and sign affidavits of your unreasonable happiness, you must pay for it. We are all miserable and cannot tolerate your 'happiness'.
• Useless email tax- The senders are taxed based on number of deletions.
• Awful music tax- If you are the distributor of awful music, (most music today), you will be taxed.
• All major banks tax - As the title implies, all major banks will pay an additional tax for the thievery they have perpetuated on the general public.

By instituting these taxes we can then truly see the insanity of our current taxation and a tax payer revolt can then usher in sweeping reform. The money that is collected in the mean time can be redistributed as a stimulus payment for small to mid sized businesses to support job creation. This is the shock therapy we need to finally wake up and save the middle class from feudal serfdom and wage slavery. The day dreaming and distracted public needs the cold slap of reality to reboot the national economy. Our ailing nation deserves nothing less.

Public Servant Zarathruster

The ZURF Act

For Zarathruster reflected on the plight of the unemployed and specifically the underemployed in America. The problem was pervasive and seemed to have no end. Many were unemployed yet more were underemployed - they had jobs, just not making anywhere near the income level of what they were accustomed to.  There must be a solution to this malady! Going ' back to school' to further ones education via debt accumulation did not seem the path to take. Sending out over 100 resume's per week for several months with targeted cover letters also yielded less than desirable results. Many of these unfortunates even reduced their expected compensation amounts by as much as 40% and still were not able to find work let alone an interview. These were indeed strange times and Zarathruster knew he must come to the aid of the perplexed public in the arena of employment. 

Since the current unemployment benefit offered to the unlucky ones was typically 25% of ones past income, Zarathruster came upon the idea of a combination of benefits to help in the interim of ones career path. After speaking with many of the employment challenged individuals, Zarathruster realized that they all seemed to suffer from a mental malady of sorts. The malady was characterized by a depression, a lingering unease and a black and white view of the world that was once bright color during their former employed lives. Zarathruster saw this illness as a disability and directly tied to their unemployed state. Many of them lost track of days, could not sleep at night and were overly irritable and prone to angry outbursts - this was a most definite disability! A temporary solution to this malaise lay in the declaring of unemployment as a partial disability from which a minor supplemental disability benefit could be paid to the disaffected individuals. Zarathruster calculated that if the current unemployment benefit was 25% of ones income and a partial, temporary disability benefit of 15% of ones income could be paid to the unemployed and the underemployed, it would be a great help to them. The adversely affected individuals could then afford to keep a roof over their heads and not be cast out into the street thereby not becoming a further burden to society.  This was the solution Zarathruster was looking for and was submitted to the authorities as 'Zarathrusters Unemployment Relief Fund'. The 'ZURF' Act was formerly submitted to the State legislature and is awaiting approval.

Scouting

A few years ago, Zarathruster attended a cub scouts meeting on behalf of his step-son to help the boy and make a positive difference in his community.  When the group of adults was asked " "...who will be the Den Leader?", they all looked to Zarathruster and he became a Den Leader. This he did however not without reservation and ideas for the betterment of the program. The program itself was well structured yet poorly administered. The boys were not given the full latitude and ability to grow as young men. Classroom work and crafts are not the purview of young men, they needed to be outdoors competing and exploring, not doing macrame and all manner of home bound crafts. As Den Leader, Zarathruster had the young ones outside as much as possible learning basic survival skills. His methods were questioned yet he persevered. Zarathruster rejected the accepted protocol of forcing the young ones to sell overpriced popcorn in a door to door sales scheme. This he saw as exploitative and downright dangerous. Let them grow up first and learn about working people over in badly planned scams later. Food drives and car washes were better uses of a scouts' time. The scouting association went to great lengths to hypnotize the innocent ones to sell popcorn via brainwashing videos. The videos were truly hypnotic and consisted of repitition and mantra like sayings of "popcorn...sell popcorn...sell more popcorn.."...over and over..They were brainwashing our kids! Thus began the end of Zarathrusters association with the scouting authorities. After Zarathrusters absence, it was confirmed that multiple parents and kids preferred Zarathrusters methods over the corporate scouting culture. 

Beating back the Jackals of the Land

Public action on behalf of prospective development efforts near ones primary residence can be necessary in times of unbridled land grabs. Zarathruster chose the land he lives on for reasons of privacy and the inability for development to commence behind him or on either side of his property.  


The first attempt to overrun our island of peace commenced in 2006. Fortunately, a county engineer and a retired road builder live in the affected area and were highly vocal in the ensuing city planning meetings. City Council meetings were attended and neighbors were encouraged to speak publicly of their concerns. Zarathruster expressed his concern as to increased traffic flow in a residential area while the engineer and road builder hammered through factual evidence of the infeasibility of the plan. Zarathruster demanded a copy of the 180 page traffic study which was used as a resource to counter the land grabbers. The local roads were already a pet killing field and a additional 128 trips per day would only add to the carnage. Next, the developer invited us to a "get to know River City Homes" planning meeting. They had the entire project scoped out with artist renderings and such, as well as a pre-planned speech designed to sway our interests toward their agenda. The local citizenry presented a united front against these interlopers and successfully beat back the jackals of the land.  The same scenario was repeated by another developer in 2009 and was subsequently beaten down. Zarathruster is a locally known proponent and defender of his section of the community and will remain as such.

....to be continued
 

Defying Definition

The age old question of 'who are you?' defies explanation. Are you your name? Your Social Security number? Are you defined by your work, your family or your station in life? Are not these definitions simply labels put on us by external requirements to be defined, categorized and put on a shelf to be utilized or needed only when these definitions apply?

When asked ,"What do you do..?" at a party or social event , you typically tell people about your job. It's no wonder we need alcohol- and lots of it - to handle these situations. Who in their right mind wants to hear about someone else's job - a job that they typically don't like yet they tell you they do. A better question would be, 'What did you learn this week'  or '..what do you do when you're not working...'.

 "Here's my card"- another complete waste of time. No one needs those cards. No one really uses them. They are a prop and they exist only to give us something to do. My next business card will read 'Zarathruster'- Doer of Things- with an email address. If someone remembers something we spoke about and wanted to contact me, they can email me and state their need or concern. No fax number, business, office or cell number will be on the card. If they can't email me, I don't want to speak to them. Since I am a 'Doer of Things", I am not limited to any one thing or group of things. Plus, a 'Doer' sounds much better than a 'Consultant'.

We should not be bound by the two name naming convention. As grown adults, we should be able to choose the name that suits us best. Since our first and last names are actually a corporate entity evidenced by all capital letters on our birth certificates, we have had no choice in our given corporate name. Our parents unwittingly signed us into the system of social security and taxation via a warehouse receipt ,(birth certificate), under admiralty law. Under admiralty law, we acquire our citizen-ship. The gold fringe around the edge of the American flag in a court of law indicates admiralty law. We are birthed from our mothers water and given a certificate of birth much in the same way goods are transferred from a ship to a warehouse with a warehouse receipt issued. We are now defined as human capital and a human resource. A resource is by definition something with value to be extracted and then discarded when no longer necessary. If that's all we are then we're definitely in trouble.

Through a Uniform Commercial Code filing, you can free yourself of your corporate name and become a Sovereign Citizen. The name given to you at birth is a straw man for your corporation. Through filing a first lien position on your straw man name, you are therefore in first lien position in regards to all debts, liabilities and encumbrances associated with your corporately named person. You are the third party intervener in regards to your straw man. None can come before you. You are a Sovereign Citizen which also implies responsibility to natural laws of right and wrong however not to the forced bondage of the corporate system. By answering as the third party intervener on behalf of your straw man in a court of law, you are not entering into the agreement foisted on you as a corporate entity. Therefore they have no dominion over you. Although rare, there are proven examples of this in the Canadian and American court systems typically involving civil cases, ordinance violations and traffic infractions.

The Sovereign Citizen is an interesting way of defining yourself and is worthy of recognition. Our names are our corporations in the system and knowing this might allow one to realize the reasons why we are tied to our system via social security, taxation and improper interpretation of laws via the court system. 

Of Zarathruster

For Zarathruster saw the state of mankind and understood that he must offer insights to help in the every day lives of humanity. Upon reaching two score and eight years it was put to Zarathruster to recapitulate his past and offer to the populace of earth his realizations and wisdom. Overwhelmed at first, he began to communicate in the universal language of humor to his peers. The writings were widely accepted and this gave Zarathruster the impetus he needed to continue his literary quest.

Food as building material

Being very familiar with cooking and kitchen protocol, Zarathruster saw that certain foods would make excellent building materials and began to imagine the possibilities these foods held. He foresaw the creation of a most rugged and impenetrable material created from dried oatmeal. This material could be used to hold cinder blocks together , its tensile strength being most likely greater than cement. Dried nacho cheese also presented a fantastic opportunity for a more decorative and colorful binder of wood and cement blocks! Zarathruster saw these food groups as indispensable in future construction projects across the land.

Restaurant seating protocol

Zarathruster noticed a very unique pattern in restaurant seating assignments and spoke forth to forever change this forced discomfort. It seemed that every time a waitress had guided him to a seat it was invariably in the most awkward and unwanted place within the establishment. This angered Zarathruster and he responded in kind. "..Sir or Madam.! do not seat us near the kitchen entryway. Do not put us next to a drunken party of eight while the room is empty! Do not seat us near screaming children whilst there is a seat far away from them! Have common empathy, for we are patrons of your fine establishment! The pleadings were duly noted and seating assignments henceforth were changed for the better..

No trespassing 

Wary of notice and preferring to keep to himself, Zarathruster refrained from posting signs and placards upon his property. For he saw this as mostly unnecessary and obtrusive to the visual aesthetics of the neighborhood. This changed however upon three confrontations at Zarathrusters homestead. It seems as though gypsies and other lesser types from out of state and far away lands could not refrain themselves from entering Zarathrusters property and confronting him with all manner of malcontent.

 The first were two women intruders showed up demanding a survey to be filled out. Being polite, Zarathruster told them "..no thanks, have a nice evening.." and shut the door. This did not sit well with the interlopers and they began a verbal barrage of expletives toward Zarathruster. Angered, he opened the door and met them on his front porch. They responded with "you're just F'ing rude.."Zarathruster then demanded they remove themselves from his property. They did not. This caused a rip in the time space continuum and Zarathruster began yelling and called the police. Later, the police found the travelers and reported back with an ordinance violation for them.

The next incident involved an unknown woman with a tattoo on her neck and a child in hand, asking if "Mario" lived here. Directly behind her was an obese individual in a car, on Zarathrusters lawn, facing directly at the front door. Zarathruster replied "No, there is NO Mario here- what are you doing parked on my lawn.?" She stared blankly and began to slowly turn away. Zarathruster practically flew to the driver side of the vehicle and said, " Hey man..we have a DRIVEWAY..." The obese individual stared blankly and began to slowly turn away. Zarathruster began yelling "What are you DOING...? GET OFF MY LAWN...!!"...The obese moron then began slowly backing off the lawn, saying nothing.  Zarathruster then noted the out of state license tag and prepared for confrontation. The obese man stopped slightly, then fled.

The third incident involved another pair of women asking to fill out a survey. The barking dog made them look unsettled and they were sent away without incident. These confrontations are completely unnecessary. When added to the occasional religious zealot on a Saturday morning it becomes intolerable and downright rude. Zarathruster found on older, hard plastic placard that said "No Trespassing,Under Penalty of Law" and posted it in the window. It is not unsightly however it is posted for the next round of interlopers. For extra measure, Zarathruster brought out his collection of swords and specialty knives to be utilized at a moments notice if necessary.

Hats

Being fortunate to have a full head of hair and not accustomed to head gear, Zarathruster understood the importance of hats yet was not a lover of them. The glaring sun can be dangerous, a hat can protect you from it. Aside from this insight, Zarathruster was at a loss to explain the unconscious and ritualistic use of hats amongst the populace.

Hats worn indoors seemed illogical and unnecessary yet many wear hats inside. Baseball caps in movie theaters and airports really seemed completely useless other than as a disguise. Not providing any real utility, Zarathuster decided to not trust these indoor wearers of hats. The hat wearers seemed to need an extra adornement on their heads to no logical end. 

Zarathruster also noticed the world religions and the infinite variety of hats and head adornment. It seemed to him that the bigger the hat the bigger the lie and deceit the individual wearing the hat was trying to indoctrinate the masses with. And so it was that Zarathruster could not trust nor rely on anyone wearing a hat except to shade the sun from his head.


Wild animals

People love animals and so did Zarathruster.  The mistake they make however is in assigning human qualities into animals that are not domesticated and the farthest thing from "human'. Trained tigers attack their trainers and killer whales kill - it's what they do.  The arrogance of humans is usually the root cause of these mishaps.  Zarathruster saw these "accidents" as completely avoidable if human beings could just realize that wild animals are wild and they will always be that way.  This concept hit home for Zarathruster when he noticed a billboard that enticed people to "Get married with dolphins". It looked kinda cool however common sense must scream to sane individuals - 'I am getting married...do I really want to place the risk of being eaten alive by wild animals on my wedding day..?' Zarathruster saw this as an automatic 'no' and thought that anyone that did not have the same response should not be allowed to marry..


Getting a Straight Answer

A unique quality of people today is not being able to get a straight answer when asked a direct question. Zarathruster was confounded on many occasions when seeking an answer from people in this day and age. He wondered if it was always so and if in times past people spoke more directly and without question. Was this a symptom of the age of technical progress and gadgetry? Or had it always been like that in human to human communication? This problem seemed especially exacerbated in the 25 and under age set. When asked a question - any question about anything - the preferred response seemed to be "..Huh..?" or "Wha..?" Were these new words? Has the language changed? Has eye contact become taboo and a thing not done in this age? Are people expected to look down at small electronic devices and mumble half sentences to you when communication is needed? Zarathruster saw this as a potential changing of the language and was perplexed by it, preferring to speak in whole sentences and look people in the eye when speaking.

Psychic Dentistry

Zarathruster was contemplating the cause and solution to a mysterious toothache when he came upon an idea that seemed to work. A filling that was done in Zarathrusters youth on an upper molar was needing replacement. Thinking back to when the filling was initially put into Zarathrusters mouth, he realized that different materials were used for tooth fillings way back when. The material was liquified metal and lasted over 30 years! Thinking further about the properties of the metal and it's resilience and capacity, Zarathruster came upon an idea to alleviate the problem. Since the same type of metal is used in radio antennas and other communication devices of our age, it should be able to receive and even possibly transmit signals sent to it! This got Zarathruster to thinking about sending mental frequencies (telekinesis) directly to the metal to heal itself and seal the tooth. The mental images of sealing the cracked metal and thus sealing the tooth were relayed via Zarathrusters mind and it worked! The tooth is healed and Zarathruster has proven that psychic dentistry is possible for those over the age of 45.

...to be continued 

Scams , Fraud and Bastard Banks

Every facet of life has a scam attached to it. Whether you are buying a car, looking for work or buying a house, the scams are out there and prevalent. Banks scam people for cashiers checks at $10 a piece and if you're a day late, you're $35 short. Employers post fake job ads to get the tax write off's and employers want you to 'invest' to work for them.

The car for sale scam can be found as a fake ebay ad. It always comes with a sob story about a death, divorce or a husband away in the military. They show you a picture of a one year old Cadillac with low miles on it for $3000. All you have to do is set up  a wire transfer from your bank account to pay for the shipping of the vehicle to you for you to inspect it and make your decision. Of course you can't drive to see the car and you cannot speak to the party selling it to you...E bay told me to forward all details of the ad to them, it is a scam.

The Financial Representative job scam to cash checks and deposit the funds into a companies account is also an overworked scam in the job market. These companies have professional looking websites and vague language about what they actually do which is difficult to determine even after reading it.  They spare no expense explaining the legitimacy of the opportunities available to you. Of course, they are usually based in the UK or some other foreign country. I played along and they sent me three checks for $986, $1,100 and $1,072. My job was to cash these checks at my bank and deposit the money less a commission into their account. After expressing concern to them about the legitimacy of their company they pressed forward with the scam, explaining at length the legitimacy of the offer. That was all I needed to press forward and contact the Federal Trade Commission. Upon calling the bank the checks were written on they could not confirm the availability of funds, proving the scam.

Utility companies have their own hidden scams that must be adhered to if you want power and water. Our water company charges $65 if you don't use any water, bundling our bill with a private company and adding three other needless charges including unused irrigation, storm water, (which is existing infrastructure and covered with property taxes) and "water base" - which is typically more than the water usage charge. The late charge from FPL, (our electric monopoly), went from 1.5% of your bill to a nice round $5.00. How gracious of them. Vehicle registration fees have easily doubled in the last 5 years and if you're one day late for a license renewal it's an extra $20...These are all institutional scams designed to milk us of the last of our cash.

Other service provider scams include being charged monthly billing after cell phone service is interrupted and a final bill is sent. Apparently ATT has changed our language acceptance of the word contract. Having an account that is not under contract does not mean it is not a "contracted account" thereby giving them the ability to continue charging monthly service fees three months after the service was interrupted and a final bill was sent. I remember being told by AOL several years back that I was "not allowed " to stop my service. There was no contract, they just could not believe or accept the fact that I was cancelling AOL in the new internet age of 1999 - 2000. Ask your cell phone provider to waive the FCC interconnect fee and they have to by law, it's a federal communications charge scam. A lot of the taxes are too. That is why it's so easy to get a bill adjustment. They all know it's a scam to see how much they can collect from you.

Next time you go to your doctor and he orders an MRI watch the gleam of greed in his eye. It is positively prevalent and noticeable. You have made his day. The insurance company will approve and his practice will profit from it. The level of scam is extenuated in the medical and insurance industry and will require me to write a book exclusively on this topic. Watch your health insurance premium 'rate- up' EVERY year, without fail. Watch it probably double this year. A total scam. ..but I stayed in shape, stayed healthy, didn't do anything wrong...too bad..pay more - you're a year older. This scam is really played out on those aged 55 -65. Any actuary will tell you that the closer one gets to age 65, the less of a risk you are to health insurance companies because you will soon be on Medicare! What do the health insurance companies do? Charge you triple and quadruple of what they need to...because you're 'older' now... Another total scam.

Last but not least are the Bastard Banks. Fractional reserve banking is in and of itself a gigantic scam that few are aware of. The bank takes in $100 and loans out $1000, (conservatively). Which would not even be that bad if that was the extent of it. When Clinton dismantled Glass Stegall (a law that prevented banks from acting as 'investment houses'),  it was the beginning of the end. The derivatives created made a 10:1 ratio look like childs play. Add to this the private banking cartel of the FED printing money and loaning it to the government at interest, attaching debt to all money printed, and you've got one of the biggest scams in the history of the planet. The vehement opposition of centralized banking all through the 1800's, culminating with the engineered Panic of 1907, resulting in the Reserve Banking Act  (the FED), signed by Woodrow Wilson, (which he later regretted), was by far the biggest scam of all time. It aint federal and it aint a reserve. It's private property, listed in the White Pages. Ask yourself why the creators of the banking act (the leading private bankers of the day), met in secret on Jeklyll Island  in 1913 and insisted on complete anonymity. And why were they so terrified of being found out? Because, according to their written transcripts, "...If it were to be exposed publicly that our particular group had gotten together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress.." 

All other scams pale in comparison, except for war, which is precipitated by bankers. Lincoln issued Greenbacks. People loved it, he got shot in the head. Kennedy re-issued the Silver Certificate. He got shot in the head.  Maybe I should shut up. Or invest in kevlar head gear.


http://www.healthfreedom.info/Federal_Reserve_Fraud.htm
http://www.scionofzion.com/federalreserve.htm
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/rape3.shtml 


My Favorite ! - for all you educated types out there,  a William and Mary  article..
http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=wmblr

Retards of the Universe

People that introduce themselves to you and mention their religious affiliation as part of their introduction are sociopaths and should be avoided at all costs. These people throw up ancient belief systems as a filter through which all communication with them will be processed while judgements are made upon your every word and action.  It is a form or pre judgement that they force on you as part of their internal system or moral code. All of this is done before you even have the chance to communicate with them. It is ultimately an abdication of personal responsibility and akin to racism when one really examines this type of behavior.

"Hi , I'm Dano, Mormon LDS..." or "Hi there, I'm Terry", born again Christian.." Think of the sheer arrogance inherent in statements such as these. I never asked you, sir, about your religious affiliation. We are not in church or temple nor are we on a retreat. These people might as well throw a bible or a copy of the Quran at you before they speak, it would be the same thing. If I am to communicate within their prescribed way, I should probably do an in depth study of their particular religious persuasion before I attempt to speak to them. After all, did they not just say that all utterances from you will be held up to the scrutiny of the ancient text with which they are so enamored?

Religious introductions give people the ability to immediately position themselves as superior to you in every way you can imagine. Superior in their ways of family life, business, lifestyle, personal habits, where you live and what you do every day as well as who you befriend and where you go on the weekends. That's a lot of superiority. It even extends to what you eat, when you eat it and who you marry. It really is a gigantic superiority complex  conveniently justified through a 'belief' system. The superiority is an impenetrable filter through which they control and impose upon you. One needs to ask oneself if you even have the right to  exist in the wake of such firmly held superstition. 

Racism is defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called races and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior.  How is fervent, openly expressed and stated religious introductions not the same? The religious introduction types are guilty of mental racism. Their division of humanity is based on belief systems as opposed to physical attributes, making them mental racists. The mental racists are just as dangerous as the aryans or the muslim brotherhood. They have the justification of thousand years old texts, billions of dollars of support and brainwashing of the masses.  The mental racists might not openly call for violence however we all know they will violently protect their particular superstition. An example of this is the killing of abortion clinic doctors. Another example is the death of children in hyper religious cults who refuse all form of medical attention.

 The subjugation of logic and reasoning on behalf of the mental racists have made them the retards of the universe. They are a dangerous breed and should be confronted on every occasion of religious introduction. I am looking forward to the next time some hapless mental racist introduces himself to me as a cult member of one or the other 'religions'...I'll look him dead in the eye and ask him why he's bringing up his cult affiliation with me, just stare and wait for a response. I can't wait for the justifications.

Background Check

Background Check


The "Background Check" employers perform now a days has reached new heights of absurdity. From physicals to National Crime Information Checks, the requirements are endless. Credit checks, medical checks, physicals, drug screens and multiple interviews with different people are just the beginning. Psychological surveys and video testing BEFORE you get to speak to someone about the job have become the norm.

Some of the more outrageous examples include taking a 30 minute psychological survey for a job as a line cook. Mind you, line cooks make $10 -$12 per hour...This pre hire tactic has become the norm. Employers are demanding these 'tests' before you even sit for an interview! A business to business sales position at Staples requires a 20 minute psychological survey before you send in the application.
These 'psych' surveys are nothing more than dime store psychological wastes of time. These companies get sold a bogus indicator test that is supposed to accurately sum up a persons ability to succeed based on 50 questions...I should be selling these damn things, it looks like a good business to be in. The tests are bad enough however being subjected to them before they even glance at your CV is borderline illegal. I have a little extra time on my hands now a days, I'm going to find out the legality of this and begin a civil action if possible.

The 'credit check' is the next crock of crap they try to lay on you. Some employers actually have the nerve to request a social security number on the application! It makes me think, wow...people do this...I recently had a potential employer send me a rental application for an apartment. He asked that I "...fill it out completely.."(which included putting my wife's info on it), needless to say I didn't. I am not looking for housing or trying to rent an apartment.  The same employer had the nerve to give me a low ball offer, (for a high profile, technically oriented, long sales cycle) service, that would include the use of my personal credit card to fly around the country, rent cars and stay in hotels. These people are not from planet earth.. When I  look in their eyes and see the arrogant, self justifying way they talk to you- it's off the Richter scale.  They are delusional and I would go so far as to say - dangerous. They too need to be brought up on charges and beaten repeatedly with aluminum baseball bats.

The next insulting tactic employers bring down around you is the 'physical' and the drug test. I'll piss in a cup but you are NOT looking up my ass, and you will not grab me and make me turn my head and cough - completely unnecessary and just another way for the doctor to milk the insurance of the idiotic company. I am not a barnyard animal, nor am I a medical experiment - try it on some other poor bastard. This is a great example of the 'preferred' care provider of the company making extra income on the side for demeaning the general public. These medical types are also a big part of the problem. Screw them and their distant, holier than thou, "professional " attitude. I think a well crafted letter of complaint to the insurance carrier of the offending medical practitioner would go a long way to keeping the quack up at night.

The criminal background check is always interesting. Every application has different levels of tolerance for different crimes. Felonies are a no no however misdemeanors are ok - if not occurring in the last 3, 5 or 7 years...Marijuana is ok in California and Colorado - but not other states. The last bumbling excuse of a company I allowed to perform a criminal check from my social did not hire me so I am demanding a copy of the report. I emailed them and reminded the dolts of my legal right - and will pursue it until the half witted morons comply. They need to be raided by the INS - I could of sworn I saw some illegals working there, maybe a concerned citizen will make the call tomorrow.

The funny thing is, all the above atrocities are performed before they place the first call to one of your professional references. That's how completely inverted the whole stupid process is. The process is in and of itself its own little drama that has taken on a life of its own - completely separate from the position or your ability to perform in it.  It is a bogus tap dance that employers continually add more drama to - probably because half the people working there are so ineffectual that their primary function has become one of increasing the mentally vacant and useless parade of background checks.