• shath [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    wow i love the corporate use of bullshit personality tests to be able to say no to giving someone a job because they have “undesirable characteristics”

    i love it so much i would like to stomp it to death

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      11 months ago

      Seriously, I need to give Bullshit Jobs a read. None of this shit would ever come into fruition if employers all weren’t such picky assholes that demanded exclusively perfect squirrels for even a cashier position.

      No one would need to invent 20,000 different ways to the so-called unemployables ‘no’ when they need a job.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    I dated a lovely lady who put too much stock in that Meyers Briggs stuff. I mean, it’s whatever, do your thing, but then she started to apply it to me. That’s when it started to get annoying.

    It’s not the only reason we broke up but it is the funniest.

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    these kinds of tests concern me because when i was a kid i had to get therapy to learn empathy because i had a borderline sociopathic disorder

    and the good news is that therapy works and empathy is something that can be learned especially if you are young because it worked for me

    but im always super freaked out because i do still have adhd and im worried whenever some workplace pushes a test like this it’ll expose me to my workplace as a sociopath who doesnt work well with others and that will come back to bite me

    and additionally every question on a test like that gives me an existential crisis and a crisis of identity because my mind sometimes struggles with over analyzing what i feel and what ive worked so hard to instill in myself which is part of the therapy so its like an internal struggle session for the whole thing super fucking stressful and has me second guessing my every answer

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      11 months ago

      but im always super freaked out because i do still have adhd and im worried whenever some workplace pushes a test like this it’ll expose me to my workplace as a sociopath who doesnt work well with others and that will come back to bite me

      These kinds of tests are usually similar to astrology in the sense that there are no bad results, every personality type has like strenghts and weaknesses like you’re a fucking pokemon. It’s horribly unscientific it’s just meant to sound nice to managers don’t worry.

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    We had to do Insights Discovery training at one of my old jobs, which simplifies this to four ‘colour energies’ to make it easier to remember.

    My manager after this starting reducing everyone’s behaviours down to their assigned colours; my coworker wasn’t a condescending prick, he was just ‘being very red, which was good for the group colour balance’.

    The trainer also stated that outsourced public project cost overrruns are due to ‘too many yellow energy managers’.