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...tests--your soul. First there's the pre-employment drug test, now routine at more than 80% of large companies--and not just for the person who will be piloting the executive jet or loading plutonium rods into the reactor. Winn-Dixie tests the people who stack Triscuit boxes; Wal-Mart tests its people greeters. What a preference for weed over Bud as a Saturday-night relaxation aid says about your work habits has never been established, but this in no way dulls management's eagerness to pry into your personal recreational choices. You may have a brilliant resume...
...same as a drink." (The same? How?) But the only way I ever screwed up was by being too clever. My strategy had been to give the "right" answers, but not so blatantly right that it would look as if I was faking out the test. Then, at a Wal-Mart in Minnesota, the personnel manager informed me I had got a couple of answers "wrong," apparently forgetting that she had introduced the test by telling me there were "no right or wrong answers, just whatever you think." In one case, I had agreed that "rules have to be followed...
...before settling in for the evening. By morning, these overnight guests are traveling the nation's highways. Welcome to the latest craze in the road-trip world: owners of recreational vehicles are passing up RV parks and campgrounds and bedding down for the night in the parking lots of Wal-Mart. "It's safe, convenient, and you always know you'll be able to find one," says Don Marginson, seated comfortably outside his 31-ft. RV in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Apache Junction, Ariz. "And it's free...
Called boondocking or dry camping, the practice is not frowned upon by Wal-Mart. Most of the stores (many are open 24 hours) throw out the welcome mat and stock the shelves accordingly. "We treat them as shoppers who take a while to make up their minds," says Wal-Mart spokesman Tom Williams. Some localities are less welcoming, with laws that prohibit overnighting in parking lots. And campground operators point out that saving the average $24-a-night campground fee hardly makes up for the lack of electric, water or sewer services. But, says David Gorin, president of the National...
...legislation that finds its way to the Commerce Committee is expected to try to strike a very tentative balance: Expand states' sales tax collection authority, but only if at least 25 states simplify their own multiple tax rates. A coalition of retailers and mall-owners, including Wal-Mart, is lobbying for sales taxes to apply equally to all sales, and 32 state legislatures have already begun to get together to try to pave the way to a simpler national sales-tax picture. Tech companies, meanwhile, have begun to soften - as long as compliance burdens are reasonable. Says committee chairman John...