Ok so I had a job interview yesterday at a restaurant that I didn’t really want to work at but I need a job badly. I had to fill out one of those personality tests with the great questions of our time like “Do you walk up stairs one or two at a time?” and when I called the manager back today he told me I failed the test so I couldn’t be hired. WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT! What the fuck does that test prove that I don’t have a personality or something. I mean dear god what the fuck? And to top off my day I can’t find my god damn fucking shitty ass wallet.
You don’t want to work for anyone who’s not competent enough to conduct an actual human job interview.
I’d say they failed the employer test and that you just dodged a bullet. Chin up & keep looking; there are good employers out there.
?!?!?! What on earth is this supposed to reveal?
And how to you “fail” a personality test?
Jeez - it sounds like you’re lucky you didn’t get this job!
I sure wouldn’t want to work with someone who walks up stairs in an irregular manner.
You wrong-stair-climbing freak.
At a guess, how lazy you are. If you take them one at a time you’re obviously not in a great hurry to get anything done, thus you’re a lazy asshole.
That’s my armchair psychoanalysis anyway. I’ve taken several of these and they’re complete BS. I mean, how do you answer a question like, “You find $50 on the ground outside. Do you try and find its owner?” You just know that you are expected to answer “yes” because you’re an honest fellow, aren’t you? But really, what do you think would happen if you tried? Out of 100 people you ask randomly on a busy city street, how many are going to say, “Why no, I didn’t drop that $50 bill, but I hope you find the person that did!”
:rolleyes:
I’ve met a few people who had no personality…
Probably has a silly walk, too.
It’s more of an IQ test, IMHO. After a few questions, you should be able to figure out what kind of answers they want, and except for a few harmless deviations, use those.
Many of the personality tests assays your honesty with questions like “Is it OK to steal if you really need it?”.
It seems like you have some anger issues to sort out. Maybe that’s why you failed the test?
All I can say is, I thought I’d gone through a lot of stupid crap in my day in pursuit of a job, but God! I’ve never been asked how I climb stairs.
Sheesh.
I answered the questions the way I thought they wanted them answered. Do I like talking to people? Yes, Do you feel tired all the time? No, Do you mind following rules? No, I’ve taken these tests for jobs before and gotten the job I don’t know what to think. I wonder if maybe it was because I changed an answer and you aren’t supposed to but I didn’t realize that till I finished. Yeah I’m angry because a piece of paper cost me a fucking job.
Hmmm, sounds like you’re unclear what sort of jobs they have at restaurants. I believe you’ve mistaken it for a bordello.
Maybe you didn’t have enough “flair”?
You know the Nazis had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear.
That’s nothing, one of the questions I had on an “aptitude” test was,
“Do you sometimes have black, tarry stools?”
Yes, quite often*, but I save time by not wiping my ass and climbing stairs 2 at a time.
*Not really
Maybe you’re just not cut out to work at Smiley’s Good Karma Grill.
:rolleyes: It fell out when you took the stairs two at a time.
On a more serious note, the manager probably hired a friend instead of you and used the test as a convenient excuse.
As a side note, I’ve actually had something close to this happen…asked someone whether or not money(roughly $50) they were standing on was theirs, and their response was “No, let’s split it”
For future reference, the correct answer is that you take one step the first time, then two the second, then four the third, and so on, doubling your steps each time. By doing so, in only 30 strides you’ll have climbed over a million steps. That’s the kind of go-getter attitude employers are looking for.