_ i hate job hunting.
i dunno if theres anything more tedious than filling out a stack of applications, except maybe filling out that same stupid questionnaire so many employers offer, all with a solid one hundred questions. ugh, and so many of these damn questions are just dumb. take this one:
It is maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free?
_ Strongly disagree
_ Disagree
_ Agree
_ Strongly agree
first, this statement is hardly a question, unless that is, you speak broken english. now i know these surveys are supposed to root out thieves, liars, the unsocial and the morally corrupt, but what the hell is this supposed to mean if you answer it "wrong?" i mean, the question is awfully presumptuous to begin with, assuming the suspect is guilty and a criminal. is this testing my knowledge of the whole, "guilty until proven guilty" ethic, or am i supposed to consider the person(s) in question to actually be known criminals, and have actually somehow outsmarted the jury or found a loophole in a law to have been let free? then, once considering all these options that perhaps the question is implying, am i supposed to find it maddening? i'm expecting they're looking for a calm associate, a lower risked person to have an outburst with a customer, so i answer "disagree". but still, though obviously information is missing, i cannot find myself strongly one side or the other.
okay, and then there are questions that'll really hurt me if i answer honestly. for example:
You were absent very few days from high school
_ Strongly disagree
_ Disagree
_ Agree
_ Strongly agree
now if you went to the same high school as me, and went the same years as i, you probably never saw me. yeah i'm not gonna go into why i never went, but lets just say i hated high school, and had no motivation to go. infact, i showed up on average for my freshmen and sophomore years once every two weeks (and yet still managed to pass nearly all my classes). so the answer to this question is "strongly disagree," but since they're asking because they want someone to show up everyday and on time, i i have to answer "strongly agree."
and then follows:
You sometimes thought seriously about quitting high school
_ Strongly disagree
_ Disagree
_ Agree
_ Strongly agree
this question i have to flat-out lie about as well. i not only "thought seriously about quitting," but i actually did. but of course there is no write-in line where i can include, "i received my ged in order to attend college early." so i lie, and most likely they won't background check this. infact, i doubt anyone actually reads my answers to this series of questions. a computer rates my answers, and spits out a grade. thats it, and thats all managers go by when hiring. the machine is always right...unless of course you can consistently lie about being a good little boy or girl.
It is maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free?
_ Strongly disagree
_ Disagree
_ Agree
_ Strongly agree
first, this statement is hardly a question, unless that is, you speak broken english. now i know these surveys are supposed to root out thieves, liars, the unsocial and the morally corrupt, but what the hell is this supposed to mean if you answer it "wrong?" i mean, the question is awfully presumptuous to begin with, assuming the suspect is guilty and a criminal. is this testing my knowledge of the whole, "guilty until proven guilty" ethic, or am i supposed to consider the person(s) in question to actually be known criminals, and have actually somehow outsmarted the jury or found a loophole in a law to have been let free? then, once considering all these options that perhaps the question is implying, am i supposed to find it maddening? i'm expecting they're looking for a calm associate, a lower risked person to have an outburst with a customer, so i answer "disagree". but still, though obviously information is missing, i cannot find myself strongly one side or the other.
okay, and then there are questions that'll really hurt me if i answer honestly. for example:
You were absent very few days from high school
_ Strongly disagree
_ Disagree
_ Agree
_ Strongly agree
now if you went to the same high school as me, and went the same years as i, you probably never saw me. yeah i'm not gonna go into why i never went, but lets just say i hated high school, and had no motivation to go. infact, i showed up on average for my freshmen and sophomore years once every two weeks (and yet still managed to pass nearly all my classes). so the answer to this question is "strongly disagree," but since they're asking because they want someone to show up everyday and on time, i i have to answer "strongly agree."
and then follows:
You sometimes thought seriously about quitting high school
_ Strongly disagree
_ Disagree
_ Agree
_ Strongly agree
this question i have to flat-out lie about as well. i not only "thought seriously about quitting," but i actually did. but of course there is no write-in line where i can include, "i received my ged in order to attend college early." so i lie, and most likely they won't background check this. infact, i doubt anyone actually reads my answers to this series of questions. a computer rates my answers, and spits out a grade. thats it, and thats all managers go by when hiring. the machine is always right...unless of course you can consistently lie about being a good little boy or girl.