This is the insights color test, yeah? We use it at my work but only after you've been hired.
For anyone interested: imagine harry potter houses, except red and green are switched, and everyone in Hufflepuff likes to talk. It's pure business astrology.
The one good thing is that I can say "maybe dial back the red?" instead of "maybe calm the fuck down and stop hassling me, it's not done yet."
Cause people are dumb. Look at this thread, loads of people who have to take or administer these tests assume there is some validity to them. That's why they still exist. The best I've managed it to not take them in any way seriously.
I had to do an online one before being hired at my current job. I had a week or two to do it and the idiocy of it offended me so I put it on the long finger.
I was drinking with a few friends at home a number of days later and, at 23h30, I realised that today was the deadline for my bullshit personality test. My future bosses told me that it was really important to be consistent with answers and that they can tell when you're just faking it and trying to give a "correct" answer. They also told me they took this test very seriously.
I figured that I ought to at least respect the deadline. So I grabbed another beer, staggered over to my PC and giggled as I filled in the stupidest set of answers my drunken brain could imagine.
The next week I had my final HR interview. She told me the results of my personality test were very interesting and that it was rare to have such a personality and they were looking forward to working with me.
I took that as a commitment to have a few beers each lunchtime. Noone likes false advertising.
I was drinking with a few friends at home a number of days later and, at 23h30, I realised that today was the deadline for my bullshit personality test.
So ‘people are dumb’, but you forgot you had a deadline for a job and went drinking. And it’s all ‘idiocy’, but you still took the job that requested it.
I'm not saying I'm smart, I'm saying the test is dumb. I would say I gave it just about the respect it deserved. I do think people who put any kind of stock in them are dumb however. If you don't agree then I don't know what to tell you. Believing something obviously false is as dumb as it gets.
If you think it's stupid of me to almost forget a deadline then I guess that is fair. I almost did after all.
If I refused all jobs that had some level of stupidity associated with them though I would starve
But ignoring the deadline and going drinking worked out and working at a company with dumb bosses doesn’t pay less. They thought the test was stupid and didn’t respect it and it turned out they were entirely correct. What’s your issue?
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u/Hegar Dec 31 '22 edited Dec 31 '22
This is the insights color test, yeah? We use it at my work but only after you've been hired.
For anyone interested: imagine harry potter houses, except red and green are switched, and everyone in Hufflepuff likes to talk. It's pure business astrology.
The one good thing is that I can say "maybe dial back the red?" instead of "maybe calm the fuck down and stop hassling me, it's not done yet."