Acquired responsibility under a working contract ≠ Motivation for signing a working contract
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Sure but we are responsible for our own health and that of our family also, so the main objective for many is to obtain “stable employment” the more invisible, the better.
Work to live. Not live to work.
But that's not the question is asking. The question is actually very clear and precise.
Responsibility and objective are two different things
Well damn that's a good point. But what a weird ass question.
Remember to tell them what they want to hear and they will do the same but we all know it is just a game.
As soon as I read the responses I knew what this was. Guys you have no obligation to believe any of the training they give you. You know what the answers are supposed to be to be. Just tell them what they want to hear and keep going. They are still legally responsible for what happens on the job. This is just something they do to get rid of people or prevent people from getting hired.
I've heard these described as a "legally acceptable way of filtering out people with autism" and man I've not seen them the same way since.
Not really, in this case the more literally you read the question the better. It asks what responsibility you acquire when you have a job not why you got the job.
I have had a theory that the personality tests are just to have an excuse to discriminate with plausible deniability.
yep when I applied to work at target a few years ago, there should have been absolutely no reason for them to not consider me but I took that thiny veiled screening test and wow I suddenly don't get a response.
fuck corpos man
That explains a LOT.
Even the chosen answer is like the bottom minimum of what I expect of a job.
I'd like to be able to pay my bills and have something left at the end I can splurge on something else.
Like a nice suit for the office? Right?
If I owned the means of production, then answer #1 would be okay.
Or if they had profit sharing, that actually used to be a thing.
People all collectively forgot that that was the piece that made America great in the 50s.
I would think that any business having this on an employment screener would be a huge red flag. But also, part of being a seasoned (read: weathered) corporate wage slave is answering nonsense like this with the corpo-appropriate response and NOT your actual thoughts.
I once applied for a pretty "standard" job. In return, i was asked to complete a survey which was a requirement. This survey consisted of some questions about "what would you do in this scenario if you would work here" (some of them were video-based ones). Since i have quite enough experience working in retail - i answered those questions kinda realistically even tho i thought that in perfect world the actual answer should be different (so called by you @roude@lemmynsfw.com - "corpo-appropriate"). I finished the survey and i got a email with the results...
... it was something like "Not bad! There is a potential to improve" in a kinda mean way
In half of them it's just "seek direction from my supervisor" or "follow company policy or procedure."
Basically it's never "think for yourself" for anything below manager.
Yeah, had to answer a few of these in a personality match assessment when I was greener. Answered them truthfully and… never got a response from the company. But things like: are you willing to grind yourself into dust if the need arises, do you perform 110% 24/7 or just enough to eek by, and the classic "do you work to live or live to work".
Seems like you just dodged the bullet.
For corps you should live to work.
Corps actually forget that people work primarily for money which they spent to make a living.
Majority of people doing extra % are those who can't afford living with their normal wage and they see it as the only way to get the money needed. Corps notices it so they think they can abuse those people to do even more extra work for nothing just because "they are hard-working believers in corporate and self success".
This is fucking bullshit
P.S.
Of course, there are also people (altough in minority) that will do extra work even if they don't need to, but they actually want to. That's on them and i respect it.
i want all business owners to know: i, and millions like me, lie through my fucking teeth on these "surveys," telling you what we know you want to hear, while quiet quitting every minute of every day. because fuck you
They know, they don't care. Read bullshit jobs
They want people who know better but still say what is expected of them
They know. They just want to filter out the people who are going to say something about it.
help your CEO get that hefty bonus
I mean, that's what the business wants from you.
I'm surprised they laid it out like that though.
Ah- ha! that’s one of them "family" corporations
Of course, what do you think you got hired for?
Ahhhh, canvas quizzes. What class?
I thought canvas was just for schools