Re:What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
by aeturnum on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:00PM
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Part of life is learning when you'll be rewarded for following the rules v.s. breaking them. Employers will sometimes ask their employees to break the law. Will you break it for them? They want you "on their side" - meaning they want you to takes risks for them. So what you are describing as a problem with the form looks like a feature to me.
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Re:What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
by int_19h on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:05PM
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The expectation on this varies very widely across cultures, and sometimes even between classes or other social strata within a culture.
And then if someone is on the spectrum, and they already know that they have trouble reading those wink-wink-nudge-nudge clues properly, they might stick with the rules as written simply because that's something objective that they can be sure they're interpreting correctly.
Re:What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
by aeturnum on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:52PM
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For sure! I don't mean it's universal at all - I'm saying the question is setup to catch people who are nor primed with the right enculturation. It's not good! It just is a good filter that selects for the sorts of people the business wants to hire.