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>Ability to do the job isn't HR's problem though. As long as you fit the company profile, then you can probably be trained to climb the trees & if you can't, well they'll smile as they show you the door & replace you with the next one who fits the company profile - you're only a resource after all, that can be replaced if you dont work as well. Besides, they might be excellent at climbing trees, but their profiles show that they are likely to have a big attitude problem, they'll only climb trees when there's something in it for themselves & refuse to adapt to multiskilling practices, so wont fly to the tops of the trees when climbing is found to be inefficient. And you need an infinite number of them & infinite time if you want them to type a sensible report.

Agreed about HR's job reponsibility. However, are chimps the only beings with attitude problems? Are'nt we humans also guilty of the same crimes? Such as doing something when there's something in it for us. In fact, that's what we are doing all the time. Refusing to be multi-skilled (I have come across quite a few), or adapt themselves to dynamic environments. But on a more serious note, coming to your last sentence, if we did make the effort to train them to type a sensible report, do you think not think that their hands would evolve over time to look more like a human's, and as a result, by being pushed into the evolutionary process, would they not cross the intellectual divide?