The question left out whether it meant responsibility to the employer or yourself, which is crucial information.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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If you can't pay your own bills, then you can't eat enough to be able to work. So no
If you're getting quizzed on subjective questions and ideology, it's time to back away.
Yeah, a questioaire like his is definitely a red flag
Usually these employee screening systems are implemented by completely out-of-touch CEO's and upper management who want to seem like they're still taking "bold action" and such during their endless meetings.
I was supposed to use a really convoluted and stupid personality profile screening system to determine who would be best fits to hire for my team. I ignored it entirely, just had a lot of interviews and got to know the people. After making my decisions, I got called in for choosing candidates that "didn't fit the personality profile for the position" and I said I would take full responsibility if something went wrong.
The people I hired lasted there longer than me, a couple got promoted.
you owe that question no honesty
I always respond and give the "right" answers because it's either an HR psychopath checking your answers to see if you're a dangerous unionist or now a damn AI.
So yes I'd like to kill myself for your company, then find something else and EAT SHIT
Yes Mr. Bossman, I would love to work at your company. I have aspired to be a since I was a small child. I would do anything to help out the company. My only desire is to help the business.
If it was a worker-owned co-op they'd be the same... but it never is.
Acquired responsibility under a working contract ≠ Motivation for signing a working contract
Sure but we are responsible for our own health and that of our family also, so the main objective for many is to obtain “stable employment” the more invisible, the better.
Work to live. Not live to work.
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I've heard these described as a "legally acceptable way of filtering out people with autism" and man I've not seen them the same way since.
I have had a theory that the personality tests are just to have an excuse to discriminate with plausible deniability.
This is absolutely the case. In the documentary “The Fog of War” (a great documentary IMO) Robert McNamara explains how he helped create a personality test to screen applicants for Ford (I think it was them).
One of the questions was “Would you rather be a coal miner or a florist?”. McNamara says his family had owned a florist but the answer they wanted coal miner. For “obvious reasons”.
"Yeah I want to be a coal miner. I want to fuck up my health, the health of the environment, the health of anyone nearby, all just to make somebody else a profit with a product that is more expensive than the clean alternatives"
I don't think the reason is obvious at all. Is it because coal mining is hard work?
I think it was a clumsy attempt to filter out gay men.
Lol. Homophobes are funny. Thanks for the explanation.
Yep quite a few years back I had two jobs lined up , already got the first but the second one wanted a second interview after I filled in a 50 page personality test. I felt the first offer would be interesting and better paid but wanted to see what they offered. So I said why not just be completely honest instead of faking it :) very interesting interview, I just told them that whoever sold them this idea was probably a very good salesman. The tool is just pointless. I got to much risk taking etc , yea I like skydiving.. I'm not skydiving at work. .. if you want people to bullshit you it's pretty good though haha
yep when I applied to work at target a few years ago, there should have been absolutely no reason for them to not consider me but I took that thiny veiled screening test and wow I suddenly don't get a response.
fuck corpos man
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Responsibility and objective are two different things
My primary responsibility is to take care of me and my family by earning enough money to pay my bills.
Sure, but on a work questionnaire you obviously aren't supposed to list your private responsibilities and priorities.
Your private responsibilities and priorities are a whole different topic that's pretty much entirely unrelated except that work lies in there somewhere. They obviously aren't saying that work should be on top of your private responsibilities list.
It's really weird that that even included that as an option. Possibly done in bad faith but likely just incompetence.
Well damn that's a good point. But what a weird ass question.
If I owned the means of production, then answer #1 would be okay.
i want all business owners to know: i, and millions like me, lie through my fucking teeth on these "surveys," telling you what we know you want to hear, while quiet quitting every minute of every day. because fuck you
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As soon as I read the responses I knew what this was. Guys you have no obligation to believe any of the training they give you. You know what the answers are supposed to be to be. Just tell them what they want to hear and keep going. They are still legally responsible for what happens on the job. This is just something they do to get rid of people or prevent people from getting hired.
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I would think that any business having this on an employment screener would be a huge red flag. But also, part of being a seasoned (read: weathered) corporate wage slave is answering nonsense like this with the corpo-appropriate response and NOT your actual thoughts.
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