MSNBC's Rachel Maddow came out swinging Monday night with a bizarre report on the questions being asked of applicants to work in President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services.
Already, experts have raised eyebrows at Trump's pick of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the department, along with a number of other medicine-denialist nominees — but, Maddow noted, the whole situation gets a lot weirder.
Imagine, she said, that you are applying for a job.
"They ask you to fill out an intake form, and specifically, they ask you to disclose on this intake form to your potential new employer if these specific personality characteristics, you think, apply to you. 'I like to show off my body.' 'I like to look at myself in the mirror.' Is that one of your personality characteristics? Your potential new employer wants to know, wants you to put in writing, do these personality characteristics apply to you? 'I don't have that much interest in having sexual experiences with another person.' Excuse me? Sorry? Again, this is from your boss, from your would-be boss, asking you these questions."
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She continued: "Another personality characteristic this application's intake form asks you about, it asks if you would describe yourself this way: 'I consistently use my physical appearance to draw attention to myself.' 'I have chronic feelings of emptiness.' 'I love large parties.' 'I leave a mess in my room.' 'I do not enjoy going to art museums.' 'I get upset when people don't notice how I look when I go out in public.' You are applying for a job and you are asked to declare these things, whether these are your characteristics. Here is my favorite one — again, what your employer is asking in considering whether or not you're going to be hired, whether or not you are suited for a job, does this personality trait apply to you? 'I believe in things and many others don't, like having a sixth sense, clairvoyance and telepathy, and as an adolescent, I had bizarre fantasies or preoccupations.'"
No normal person would tolerate that kind of thing being asked in a job application process, said Maddow.
"If your would-be boss asks you how interested you are in sex, and your would-be boss wants you to put this answer in writing and submit it to the company, call HR, right?" she said. "Nobody wants to, but honestly, call HR, maybe call the cops. Definitely don't take that job. But that, that I just showed you, the Trump transition has now confirmed that that is the questionnaire that is being administered to people who want to work for the U.S. government in the second term of Donald J. Trump."
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