• Receive scant personal information about someone, then derivate much larger meaning from it

  • Utmost adherence to insignificant details in the materials presented

  • Utter conviction any of it actually tells you anything, despite failing to predict the results most of the time

  • weird in group out group situation, including a need to tell other people about the methodology unwarranted at every possible opportunity

  • deflecting any criticism by introducing some hithertho uknown detail or wisdom, alternatively claiming the criticism is born from a lack of understanding

  • utter devotion to the spectacle

And that's not even getting into the Astrology of Myers-Briggs personality types.

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

    That’s in reference to the questionnaires (mostly large low-paying US-based) corporations use to gauge how good a little worker you’ll be. It’s full of questions like that, “if I have free time at work, I...”, etc. I had to do one to work at a large grocery store a while ago. The manager came out after I finished and said, “the computer says I should definitely hire you” and now here I am.

    • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      lmao what a brilliant way to ensure you only hire people who will lie on the application (not that that's bad, but its theoretically not what management want)

    • joannavocado [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Love those tests, it does make me wonder whether they really care about the answers or if it's just a test of your reading comprehension, because the ones i've done have been super easy