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It’s just a question asking “What does an employee do”
Why are so many people up their own ass about this.
Because the answer is “lie and kiss ass and deny your needs as a human.”
Jesus fucking Christ. It’s asking what the role of an employee is.
Isn’t that what I said?
The question left out whether it meant responsibility to the employer or yourself, which is crucial information.
If you can’t pay your own bills, then you can’t eat enough to be able to work. So no
you owe that question no honesty
If you’re getting quizzed on subjective questions and ideology, it’s time to back away.
Yeah, a questioaire like his is definitely a red flag
Usually these employee screening systems are implemented by completely out-of-touch CEO’s and upper management who want to seem like they’re still taking “bold action” and such during their endless meetings.
I was supposed to use a really convoluted and stupid personality profile screening system to determine who would be best fits to hire for my team. I ignored it entirely, just had a lot of interviews and got to know the people. After making my decisions, I got called in for choosing candidates that “didn’t fit the personality profile for the position” and I said I would take full responsibility if something went wrong.
The people I hired lasted there longer than me, a couple got promoted.
I always respond and give the “right” answers because it’s either an HR psychopath checking your answers to see if you’re a dangerous unionist or now a damn AI.
So yes I’d like to kill myself for your company, then find something else and EAT SHIT
Yes Mr. Bossman, I would love to work at your company. I have aspired to be a <insert low-level job title here> since I was a small child. I would do anything to help out the company. My only desire is to help the business.
If it was a worker-owned co-op they’d be the same… but it never is.
Acquired responsibility under a working contract ≠ Motivation for signing a working contract
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.
Its asking what my primary responsibility is when acquiring a new job.
My primary responsibility is to look after my own health and wellbeing and to some extend the wellbeing of people i interact with. This at all times regardless of what my current goal is.
The most direct way a job relates to wellbeing is that it can provide a stable income to live from. So that is the correct answer.
No amount of additional context can change this.
Id like to take it a step up even.
The primary responsibility for any employer Is to make sure its employees have “enough” wage. Because if they can’t those jobs become objectively inhuman.
The primary responsibility for any employer Is to make sure its employees have “enough” wage.
I disagree, and I think it works in exactly the same way as the initial question. The primary reaponsibility of the employer is the success of the company. The success of the company is at least partially dependent on keeping good employees with good wage, benefits, and culture. You can get short-term profits out of shorting those things (just like an employee can scrape by temporarily with shit wages, poor benefits, and bad work culture), but in the long term that hurts everyone involved.
I value people’s freedom to chose their own priorities but i can’t quite wrap my head around this.
If an organization does not strive to benefit its maintainers or the common public (which includes its maintainers) then for what reason do we allow that organization to exist?
I know capitalism is a thing but it has never not sounded crazy to me how exploitation (be it nature or people) got normalized. Profit = Loss
Responsibility and objective are two different things
My primary responsibility is to take care of me and my family by earning enough money to pay my bills.
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.
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?
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.
And what is it? I had something similiar in my work integration training of the … unemploynent insurance fund(?).
Ah- ha! that’s one of them “family” corporations
I thought canvas was just for schools
I mean, that’s what the business wants from you.
I’m surprised they laid it out like that though.
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 @[email protected] - “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
I refuse to record video answers for an interview. I’ve actually drawn a line at the whole one-way interview in general. If you can’t make the time to talk to me on the phone or on video chat, then you’re not a company I want to work for. Plus, a lot of companies use those video responses to discriminate against people without having to look the person in the eye. It’s so cowardly, and I won’t participate in it.
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.
