(I missed last Tuesday on account of faulty time management. How do people busier than me keep up on their excellent blogs and still get everything accomplished?)
Same setup as other weeks. I’ll answer three Scruples questions and leave a fourth for readers. Feel free to weigh in on the others, though.
A close friend will be interviewed for a job with your employer. He asks you for a list of the questions in advance. Do you supply it?
I think most employers only interview the ones that qualify based on skills and previous experience (unless it’s seniority-based, then be ready to be passed over when someone more senior yet essentially unskilled applies for the same position). The job I have, I wouldn’t have access to a list like that anyway. All I could do is explain what kind of work it is and what there’s been for turnover. A lot of people get worried about interviews but I don’t know if prep work really can boost a person’s chances of getting the job. Confidence is one thing but overconfidence can look a bit too much like arrogance and that sort of attitude can be pretty off-putting. Don’t come across like a know-it-all and try to stay relaxed. That’s all the advice I’d be able to give. Eat a banana beforehand and smile…
You are advised to invest in a company which does well because of its monopoly but makes a poor product. You are sure to profit. Do you invest?
Sounds like Walmart. I had stock in the company while I worked there. Five years later (this year), I finally got around to telling them I’d like to sell it. I do have an RRSP plan on the go with money going toward that every month. I should be more cognizant of what my money is going toward, actually. Something to do something about down the road here. As far as the question, I think I’d pass on it.
The people who find your beloved cat injured in a ditch pay $150 for veterinary care and adopt it. You discover what happened three months later. Do you let them keep the cat?
I love cats. I grew up with transient farm cats rather than beloved pets for the most part. I’ll tell this story, though. When I was 6 or 7 I had this one called Tiger. He and I spent a lot of time together. The summer my parents invited a professional photographer to take pictures of the family in the yard, Tiger photobombed almost every sitting. Dad finally tossed the cat into the house even though he’d never before been allowed in there. For years I thought that my teasing him with a stuffed dog was the reason he buggered off but I suspect the real reason was that there weren’t any girl cats around and he had wanderlust.
If I’d found out later on that a neighbour had found him and paid for his vet visit, I might have begged Mom or Dad to have a word and see about getting him back but I think my folks would have said no. And, unless we’re talking about an expensive pedigree cat I saved up to buy and had as my companion for several years before the loss, the answer would probably still be no. By this point, the new family will have bonded with the cat and it wouldn’t feel right to barge in and ask for it back, even if I offered to pay back the money for the vet bills.
You are a politician. The people who elected you demand that you take a position on abortion which is against your personal convictions. Do you?
One Minion's Opinion 
Question 1: This question is impossible. Anyone who would regard themselves as my friend knows in advance that my answer would be an eye-roll and the comment “if you’re too stupid to figure out what kinds of questions they’re likely to answer, then I certainly don’t want to work with you.”
Question 2: No. That was easy.
Question 3: Depends. If the cat still needs medical treatment which I couldn’t afford to give, I’d let them keep it. But if this were to happen exactly as stated, I’d offer them to both (A) refund what they have spent and (B) pay the necessary fees to help them get a nice, unattached cat from a local shelter. (Although these days it’s pretty unlikely that this question would happen — you get your pet microchipped, and any vet will be able to tell who it belongs to. So even if I lost a poor cat and they missed the signs I would put up all over the place and it lost its collar with my phone number on its tag, the minute they took it in to spend that money on medical treatment they’d find out it was my cat.)
Question 4: No. (Once again, though, how could that even happen? I don’t think it’s possible anyone who would support me for public office could possibly expect that I’d either be anti-abortion or willing to compromise on that stance.)