Read the following stories. Then see the Instructions Page.
Paul Scott - Paul is in his last year at Grandview High School. He has a part-time job at a local grocery store. He has been saving his money for a new stereo and finally has enough. He takes his cash and goes to Jim's Stereo Xpress and picks out the model he wants. The sales rep fills out the sales slip and asks for Paul's name, address, telephone number, and place of employment. Paul...
Trisha Jones - Trisha is a Grade 10 student at South Central High School. She works two evenings a week and Saturdays at a fast-food restaurant. She has saved enough money to buy a food processor for her mother's birthday. When her mother opens the gift, they find the warranty card and start to fill it out. It asks for their name and address, the name of the store where the product was purchased, the product's price, the family's income level, and what other appliances they own that were made by the same company. Trisha tells her mother to...
Anthony Ortiz - Anthony is the bookkeeper for a small chain of clothing stores. The company has its own charge card and one of Anthony's jobs is to enter in all the new charges into the computer. One day Liz, a co-worker, comes up and asks him to look up the record of her boyfriend, who, she says, asked her to check something. They have the record on the screen and are talking about it when Mr. Ross, the manager, comes in. Mr. Ross...
Sara Chen - Sara is the marketing manager for Fashion, Inc., a large catalogue company. She has just received a phone call from an irate customer who recently received catalogues from eight other companies when the only catalogue she ordered was from Fashion. She accused Sara's company of selling her name and address to other companies without her consent. She wants to keep getting Fashion's catalogue, but she doesn't want her name rented to anyone else. Sara...
Rick Soloman - Rick graduated from high school in June. He has a full-time job as a management trainee at Bobby's, a local fast-food restaurant. He is taking courses at night at the local community college. He has decided it's time to start building a credit history for himself, so he is completing applications for a gasoline charge card and a local department store charge card. He's puzzled about some of the questions on the forms. "Why do they need my Social Insurance number?" And the name of my nearest relative...?" he wonders.
