[ex-Texan]

The employment process is ripe for exploitation. Most employers ask all sorts of rude and impermissible questions in written applications. E.g. They find devious ways to ask about your age, race, ethnicity, and religion. Then they ask for your signature to give them access to normally confidential information. Catch 22: If you sign you may open up embarrassing issues to scrutiny. If your refuse to sign the application they may lawfully refuse to interview you. I suggest signing with a fake signature (If your real name is Malcome D. Owens, sign "M.D. Owens" in an unreadable scrawl). Then if they violate your legal rights, you may properly sue the b@stards. Good lawyers may drive a truck through waivers of liability obtained in employment applications.

[mom4kittys]

I know. They are unbelievable and the promises they make are usually garbage. I had a written contract at my last job as a manager for a certain territory with a quota (in writing) Within 6 months they eliminated 2/3rds of my territory and i still had the same quota. Unbelievable. They just promised me the territory to get me to come on board.