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How do you "not pass" a Walmart assessment test? :Puzzled:

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You let them know that you appreciate freedom and liberty and workers rights.

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You know the kind I mean right? Those ones where they ask you things like, "An employee is mad because he thought service was slow. What do you do?"

Apparently I didn't give the answer they wanted.

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Oh that lame-ass written one. What did you answer?

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For that particular one I said, "Apologize and then explain the reason for the delay."

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The correct answer would be "Apologize and then not explain the reason for the delay"

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Adrian, they're looking for a very specific type of person. From dating the daughter of HR, (and hanging out with the head HR person), I learned that I scored yellow for Target, but they were desperate. It's not an "aptitude" test so much as it is a "do you fit (or can you lie well enough to appear to fit) in this box" test. Apparently we both suck at lying.

So don't feel too bad. You just suck at lying well enough to trick Walmart into thinking you'd be a good yes-man/drone/slave.

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I'm pretty good at lying, but it just seems rather shitty to set up a metric that forces people to lie to get what they want or need.

Welcome to American capitalism :)

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Well, I thought I was too, but they do the typical thing they do on sociological/psychological questionaires: ask the "same" question multiple times in different ways. You have to keep really good track of your lies, or they'll realize you're full of shit and trying to game the system so you can actually afford to feed yourself like some kind of selfish prick.

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Then why lie? :p

Aren't I being benevolent? =p

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The trick is to believe your own lie.

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It's like that here too. If you were to read my Curriculum, it's a totally different person.

Only awesome thing I kinda like of Chile, is that they usually hire people according to their skillfulness, or at least what if they appear to be skilled. My brother, who works mainly in the construction business, that he went to apply for a job at some construction site and the 'boss' or whatever send a poor SoB because he was being "too pretty" or something. The lad had brought a CV with color picture and wathever, and went with a more academical approach. The only thing the boss did was check the applicants' hands to see if they were rough enough to fit for the job.

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My brother works at a store, and he told me that the testing system with those quizzes that they have requires applicants to answer in the extremes. Any middle-ground answer works against the applicant.

So when the answer options say something like:

A. Strongly Agree.
B. Agree.
C. Don't Know.
D. Disagree.
E. Strongly Disagree.

Then the only two truly viable options are A and E. B, C, and D are middle-ground answers that work against you.

Beyond that, you have to hope that they're desperate enough to hire you (not enough applicants), and then work your ass off to prove to them that you haven't wasted their time.

I never understood the whole reference thing, either. I understand listing previous employers, but at one point (most applications no longer have it, thankfully) they wanted like a half-dozen people to call that were not employers or family members.

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That's another thing. I don't get why people need references to be a clerk. It's just a job to make some extra money because you need to pay bills or would like some extra goodies. Unless you're going to give me more responsibility + bigger salary, I shouldn't need someone to vouch for my ability to sweep floors or stock shelves.

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As my parents told me, most of those reference things are to have someone vouch for you saying you're not a drug addict or thief or anything like that. The truth is, though, that if you've got people to put down as references, you're probably close enough to those individuals that they'll lie for you anyway, even if you were a thief. It took literally decades for businesses to catch on to the fact that any references outside of previous employers are probably biased in favor of an applicant anyway.

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WHEN YOU RUN A COMPANY, FEEL FREE TO CHANGE THE RULES YOUNG MAN. US EXECUTIVES HAVE SHIT TO DO.

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Trust me, I've been and am seriously considering it :p

Shit; I bet the group we have here on Gamefront with enough time to learn some good entrepreneurial and technical skills, we could make something cool.

My goal is something along the lines of venture capitalism and/or software.

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Great, here's $10 to get you started.

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Thanks, but I need another $10 seeing as how I spent the last bill on chocolate =p

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:anime:

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How about some REAL money this time?

http://www.10buckdinners.com/wp-cont...04/10bucks.jpg

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HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE God bless A-fucking-Muricah.

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Or so you claim.

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Indubitably.

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Hm, quite.