Hi John,

>>More than once I was in the position of not being able to employ highly qualified & very able people, because the "Human Resources" department said that their personality profile tests showed that they did not fit the company profile & I had to employ less able people.
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>You are kidding me!
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>What a loser company that is (was?). I can't understand companies that hire based on stuff peripheral to the job itself. I guess, to quote Pink Floyd, they look for "a club tie, the firm handshake...a sudden look in the eyes, an easy smile".

It happens over here too. I've worked for a insurance company and I found myself working between incapable people and/or people who did behave like sheep. There was a Y2K coordinator who insisted that in all FPW 2.x projects dates were converted to caracter because 'it can not properly handle the year 2000'. All he was objecting against is that FPW 2.6 automaticly add 19 for a century if omitted.

I was arguing that converting dates to characters would be far more dangerous than just checking if a date was in valid range because 01/02/2000 could be easely switched with 02/01/2000. If the program forgets to SET DATE properly all the handeling done with characters is more dangerous than this whole 'Y2K' shortcomming in FPW 2.x. Some other college took this standpoint as well. I was fired only a weeks after that, the college a few months after. The arguments were that we were not team players. In fact all they were left with was a bunch of sheep who are not capable of anything and certainly not dare to speak out loud. I really wonder if this FoxPro team is still alive ?!

Walter,