Getting a job...

I do not usually post comments on issues related to politics since I am not in the mood of endlessly arguing with people (especially those who think they are always right and do not respect the opinion of others.) But sometimes it is just one of these days...

Anyway, the government decided to introduce personal interviews to the process of employing people to the public sector. Up to now, no complaints there. Interviews are used around the world and in the private sector as well. Furthermore, it is a good tool for the employers to get to know the person they are about to employ. So, this is in fact a good and necessary process.
As long as the conditions of the interview (time, questions asked etc) are appropriate and not like the ones following :

Some newspapers brought up this issue today:

The goal: Getting a job in the Greek army (interviews for getting into the Greek army were introduced a few years ago:)

The procedure: Each candidate's interview lasted about 3 minutes! (I guess they thought the time was more than enough) And what kind of very important and crucial questions for getting a job in the army were asked by the interviewer?

• "Now, you don't have a tattoo? Do you?" (Is a tattoo of the Greek flag a good or a bad thing?)
• "How many holes for earrings do you have?" (I do not even want to think what happens if you ever had a ring in another part of your body. After all, the question was not about the ring but the hole.)
• "Do you go to bars?" (Now, what kind of bars do they mean? And what if you are always home before midnight? This must be a good thing!)
• "Would you ever use steroids" (like anybody will answer "yes"; after all, it is all about honesty, isn't it?)
• "How do you think the issue of low-birth rate should be addressed?" (I guess an answer like "Make love, not war" is totally out of the question!)
• And the top one: "Are you abstemious?" (No comments there...)

So if you do not have a tattoo, you do not have earrings, do not go to bars, you will never use steroids and you have great ideas to fight the low-birth rate, but you cannot put them into practice ; remember, you have to be abstemious (actually, it does not clarify what you should be abstemious from; is it food, drink, or something else?), you have a promising career at the Greek army.

And of course, in the remote case the army rejects you, you can always become a monk or a nun.

Take also into consideration the interview may play a great part in getting the job, even outweigh other unimportant things (like degrees, diplomas, knowledge of foreign languages, previous working experience.) Well, I guess this is what happens when you are not abstemious.

Am I the only one that finds it ridiculous?