Just had to do one of those personality quizzes for a KFC near my house and it feels SO fucking strange

  • fuschiaRuler [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The entire system is so fucked up.

    Make a resume themed to threplace youre applying (dont use the same one twice)

    Apply to like 20 openings

    Don't get any responses back ever that they moved on

    Have your info sold to a third party so they can still make money off the labor of your application.

    Get an interview finally.

    Be as fake as a facebook profile so they accept your app.

    • MirrorMadness [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      *Get an interview finally because your high school friend's friend is a shift supervisor at a different location and requests someone actually look at your application

  • Sushi_Desires
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    4 years ago

    Result: [not exploitable enough; may attempt to unionize]

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Yes. You are a product and you must upsell yourself to prospective employers, listing off all of your features to place you ahead of competing products in the market. Things like maintaining your health, education, etc. are smart investments into the product of you! There's a reason it's called the "job market" and capitalists call themselves "job creators." It's because you aren't a person, you are a commodity.

    • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      One of the worst things I've said during an interview is that I'm not really that different from the people competing for the job.

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yes, it's by design intended to humiliate you into groveling submission and compete with other workers.

  • throwawaylemmy [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    You're supposed to be "shiny happy people" on those. Basically saying yes to positive things and "no" to negative things.

    They're total bullshit, which I don't get why HR continues to use because they should know by now that nearly everyone lies on them.

    • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Filtering out the people who aren't that way naturally and don't know they're supposed to pretend otherwise actually serves a function here, I think.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The only purpose it serves is to remind you of your place.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        Nah. I worked in a company that implemented this once. The HR rep literally believed that shit and would try to route people to jobs she thought were appropriate to their personalities. All the existing employees took the stupid thing, and I actually got called in to ask if I was happy as a programmer because my Emotional Score didn't fit the expected characteristics. I'd been doing the job for four years already and was their best developer, but she was convinced I'd be better in sales because of the exam.

        It's literally a horoscope for Woke Liberals. And while there's definitely an element of managerial flexing in making anyone waste their time on this shit, people do take it seriously.

  • theboy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah just tell em what they want to hear and bullshit your way in.

      • Washburn [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        The quiz will take your responses and, on the back end, give you values for certain personality traits based on them, and those values have to fall within a certain range of acceptable scores for each personality trait for you to get a call back. The most common personality traits that these quizes test for are extroversion (they want someone who is extroverted, but not too extroverted), agreeableness (they want someone who won't start an argument or speak their mind), organization, and in service industry jobs, what you think about stealing.

      • theboy [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        just tell em that you'll eat their pig schlop and that you're a team player and stuff

      • Phish [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        Maybe do the opposite of what you've been doing and see if that works?

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    4 years ago

    I mean you're literally selling yourself for set number of hours, the commodity is you and you have to bargain with the buyer for it lol

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "Either you pay me for X hours of productive labor, or I'll spend that X hours of labor burning down each and every one of your stores."

  • buh [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    No, it naturally evolved that way from an economic system that is fundamentally dehumanizing

  • HankScorpio [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Of course it is. Because when you get hired you aren't an employee or staff member. You're "human capital."

    Also it's so weird that even basic entry level workforce jobs have to do personality tests. Ensuring new employees be polite and non-confrontational just enhances the sterility of the experience. If I'm gonna order a Double Down I should be berated by the staff not given a smile and thank you.