In Personnel they were testing, checking, and screening the usual mass of job applicants ... clerks, craftsmen, specialists, middle bracket executives, top echelon experts. All of the preliminary elimination was done with standardized tests and interviews, and never to the satisfaction of Monarch’s Esper Personnel Chief who was stalking through the floor in an icy rage when Reich entered. The fact that Reich’s secretary had sent an advance telepathic announcement of the visit made no difference to him.