"Huh?" Blair looked up at Jim, who was waving a piece of paper in the air.

"'Potential Candidate Interview Questions'" Jim read the title on the piece of paper. "Something I need to know about here Sandburg?"

"Um, well, actually, it's something I'm working on for Simon," Blair said sheepishly.

"Simon?" Jim asked, confused.

"Yeah," Blair crossed over to Jim and started to wave his hands in the air as he explained. "See, I was saying to him the other day that maybe we should consider getting in some more civilians to help with the paperwork. Seeing how you always want me to do your paperwork, I was thinking that we could maybe bring in a few students, grads in Criminal Justice maybe, to help with the typing. They get some money and some work experience at the same time. So Simon said to put together a proposal for him to look at before he considered taking it higher up."

"Uh huh, these are good," Jim said absently as he scanned the page rapidly reading the questions. Then he got to the last one.

"What's this?" he asked.

"What man?" Blair leaned over the Sentinel's shoulder, peering at the piece of paper.

"This last question," Jim said, waggling the paper under Blair's nose. "'You are sitting in the break room with some colleagues when you realise one of them is gay. How would you react?' What the hell sort of a question is that?" he growled.

"A perfectly legitimate one," Blair said, snatching the paper out of Jim's hand. "It's important to make sure the people we bring in are tolerant and broad minded considering the sort of stuff they'd have to deal with."

Jim looked at Blair and shook his head. "I'm not sure, Chief," he said.

"I included questions on ethnicity and culture too," Blair pointed out. "They didn't worry you, why should this?"

Jim huffed. "No reason I guess," he said. "Just cut a little close to the mark."

Blair gave him a quick hug. "We're always discreet at the PD," he pointed out. "This wasn't aimed at us. It's the sort of thing that's mandatory these days."

"Okay," Jim said. "But I'd have to say that my response would be that I have more of a problem working with straight people than gay as they're more likely to be caught doing something inappropriate in the workplace."

Blair laughed "good answer, man," he said.

Author's note- this was an actual question asked of me when I appied for a civilian position at a UK police department