Despite a clever misleading title, this rant is much more concerned with the atrocities visited upon simple folk by the unjustifiable use of corrupt and flabbergastedly constructed ethic tests that corporations are attaching to basic entry level positional applications for work as wage slaves to industries that nobody actually wants to work in but you have got to make a living somehow.
Perhaps I would be less irate over these tests if they were used at higher levels of business where decisions are made that cripple lives on the basis of higher profits. Maybe I’m bitter simply because I cannot pass the esoteric things. Constructed as they are to be Labrynths of double negatives and rechecks and containing minotaurs both naked in their intent and shadowy in their eventual execution.
And me without the least bit of magic yarn.
There is something unwholesome about being asked questions designed to ‘catch you’ in a trap of logic when the logic involved in the trap is more of a bitter and stupid cousin of hearsay. Whether or not I strongly agree or disagree with the idea of my fellow employees doing their share of the work is really incidental to how much I strongly agree or disagree that the work should get done.
But it the quasi-logic of the ‘ethical’ test if I agree that work should get done but disagree that fellow employees should be testicularly electrocuted (women will have testicles grafted on as part of this process I am assured) for not doing their work I am in fact lying that I think any works should get done at all.
I see each of their iterations and repetitions of questions to be stand alone diatribes about a particular facet of a whole, but apparently they are all the same question that must be answered in the same way or you are LYING, and no one should ever be employed to stock the shelves of a grocery store with canned beans if it is well known that they are liars.
The beans, they can tell, and they will rebel in the stomachs and intestines of all those who purchase the cans.
So its important that we have these tests.
Filed under: Semi-Ruthless
