Question

[Adrian Ţepeş]

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

[Schofield]

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

[Adrian Ţepeş]

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.

[Schofield]

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

[Adrian Ţepeş]

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

[hulde gran]

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

[Toph]

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.

[Adrian Ţepeş]

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

[Toph]

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.

[Adrian Ţepeş]

Then why lie?

Aren't I being benevolent?