Job Performance Questions: Ever Been Pregnant? - When Was Your Last Period?

[DeSwiss]

SOURCE: Reuters

Public Servants Asked For Menstrual History

April 11, 2007 05:44pm

FEMALE civil servants in India are furious with new government guidelines that force them to list intimate details, including their menstrual history, in appraisal forms, a newspaper reported today.

The All-India Services Performance Appraisal Rules 2007 – which apply to senior government workers – ask female employees to record their last menstrual period, as well as when they last took maternity leave, the Hindustan Times said.

"The questions are too intrusive and have no bearing on our work," Seema Vyas, a senior bureaucrat in Maharashtra state, was quoted as saying.

India's Ministry of Personnel, which drew up the new appraisal guidelines, says it has not received any complaints and the addition of such questions was based on advice from health officials.

"I assume this will help evaluate the officer's fitness," Satyanand Mishra, the ministry's most senior bureaucrat, told the newspaper.

But women officers said it was "insensitive" and "irrelevant", adding they planned to protest.

"Health problems or aberrations are generally mentioned to assess the officer's physical fitness," said Chandra Iyengar, a senior civil servant.

link: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21539668-1702,00.html

*** - Proving once again that bureaucractic insensitivity and stupidity is not limited to our shores.

However, in an effort to achieve some sort of balance in asking sensitive questions, I offer the following to India for their male public servants:

(1) How would you describe your penis? (check one)
< > Son of Kong
< > Servicable but nothing to write home about
< > I have to sit down when I pee

(2) How often do you wank-off? (check one)
< > Never! I'm a Pimpster
< > Only on days ending in "Y"
< > Hold on, this'll only take a minute

[yourout]

1. It first I thought it was INDIANA......need to read slooower.

[Jed Dilligan]

2. Supposedly, a common job interview question for men in the UK

is "Would you rather be good-looking or have a big knob?" Some sort of twisted personality test. Irvine Welsh put it in Trainspotting.

[supernova]

4. What's the most popular answer?

:D

[dweller]

6. a good-looking knob ...

:evilgrin:

dp

[supernova]

7. Funny, I"ve been looking

for one of those! :evilgrin:

[supernova]

3. I was thinking this afternoon

as I was reading that story that if these female employees don't get these questions removed from this form, they should start sending the offender who wrote it their bloody tampons and napkins. :evilgrin:

[LisaM]

5. And this is the country we're sending all our jobs to?

There was another post today that half of the children in India are sexually abused.