The CEO of a Connecticut marketing company is screening out young job applicants with a "snowflake test" in which he asks when they last cried and whether they like guns. Kyle Reyes insists his test is not political, but is designed to avoid hiring candidates who are "not proud to be an American," and will "whine and complain and come to the table with nothing but an entitled attitude."
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