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[-] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 72 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have had a theory that the personality tests are just to have an excuse to discriminate with plausible deniability.

[-] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 9 months ago

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

[-] bored_boar_onboard@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

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”.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 6 points 9 months ago

I don't think the reason is obvious at all. Is it because coal mining is hard work?

[-] bored_boar_onboard@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I think it was a clumsy attempt to filter out gay men.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 3 points 9 months ago

Lol. Homophobes are funny. Thanks for the explanation.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

"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"

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