Selling tickets for your daughter's booster club to a group taking a driving safety course is proper or improper conduct for a clerk?

• A. Improper
• B. Proper
• C. Not specified
• D. Depends on circumstances

Answer: (A)

This question tests boundaries around using an official role for private fundraising. A clerk should maintain impartiality and avoid actions that could benefit a private organization or create an appearance of favoritism. Selling tickets for your daughter's booster club to a group that is participating in a driving safety course ties a personal fundraising effort to an official public setting. It could be seen as leveraging your position to support a private group, and it could place the group in a position of feeling obligated to support or reciprocate, or raise questions about influence and fairness. To keep public service trustworthy, fundraising should be conducted through approved channels and not targeted at groups connected to official programs. Therefore, this conduct is improper.