Author: kirkwallhellmouth

Decided on darkish blue shirt and black slacks for interview thing tomorrow.

Have not yet decided on which tie.

That is harder than picking a shirt, because like…85% of my ties are decidedly too flashy for a “dress conservatively” interview.

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job applications just keep getting weirder…..

pro jobseeking tip: never answer these surveys honestly

also a tip: if they have a question like “Everybody steals from work sometimes” answer “disagree.”

I found this out when i was working as a hiring manager and the company i worked for started instituting these tests for managerial hires or promotions. My boss and I were promoting someone and she failed the test because she answered that question as “slightly agree” which in the results tells them that she is someone likely to steal because she believes everyone does it. When we asked her about her answer, it turns out she picked what she did because she’s cynical and does assume that people steal but didnt agree with them doing so. she almost sued the company for not promoting her based on that but chose to leave instead. We lost a good employee because corporate decided these tests were a good way to screen for “good” employees.

tldr these things are poorly designed, ambiguously worded, and structured in ways that are designed to eliminate people because the intention of the questions is never made clear. these tests are evil.

this sounds like an ableist disaster for people who aren’t neurotypical and who struggle with reading signals 

 When I went to get diagnosed with ADHD, the neuropsychologist couldn’t figure out what was going on, because on paper I’m apparently floridly psychotic.  No, the questions are imprecise, and I am hyper-literal and extremely honest.  

“Do you often see things that other people do not see?”  Yes. 

     The question I was answering:  “Are you especially observant?”

     The question the test was actually asking:  “Are you having visual hallucinations?” 

“Does your environment ever have special messages for you?”  Yes.  

     The question I was answering:  “Does the sudden sight of a rainbow during a    bout of doubt and self-loathing make you feel as though the world is trying to cheer you up?”

      The question the test was actually asking:  “Do you believe that your toaster is trying to convince you that the neighbors are spying on you?”

Five years later, I bombed a psych eval for a park ranger job for the same sort of thing.  Tread carefully, darlings.  

^^^^ that is actually such a huge issue with diagnosis!!!! and I’ve thought I didn’t experience symptoms for ages that I actually clearly had all along because of things being phrased super weirdly and confusingly 😦

And this is why McDonald’s never called me after I applied

Yeah, this is why this kind of thing in job apps needs to be illegal. A lot of discrimination is well hidden.

yeah they gave me a neuropsyche test and there were depression questions and they were confused because my answers were inconsistent.

Well no shit you asked for them IN GENERAL (I ASKED the person giving the test if I should do just depression symptoms or at all even) and I happen to have PHYSICAL disabilities too. So anything about heart rate, fatigue, being able to do stuff, was all over the place because the shorter depression tests they give at the PCP I can end up checking all the “yes” boxes off WITHOUT FACTORING IN MY MENTAL ILLNESS AT ALL.

Seriously.

Like they didn’t take into consideration stuff like MAYBE having to start using a wheelchair would effect my ability to go out for example. Or that POTS might cause heart racing. Or that Mitochondrial myopathy might cause fatigue.

They then proceeded to blame anything else on the test on the depression that was 50% not depression and ignore stuff like “suddenly regressed literally 10 years in several subjects such as reading and math” so I to this day have no diagnosis or treatment for that because the only treatment I was offered after the test was stuff for the depression that I already tried and it didn’t work.

For me, I have an issue with lying on these things because intent is so confusing to me. I think, oh, okay, this answer is obvious, and it turns out that it isn’t. OR, I think that the ‘obvious’ answer isn’t possible, so if I answer it, I get paranoid that they know I’m lying. I have never gotten a call back from any place that used employment tests, EVER.
These tests are extremely distressing and should be illegal. 

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I have always imagined the American magical community in Harry Potter to be significantly less… structured than that of Britain. America is just so big, and the states can be so different, and history is so fucked up and complicated that a whole secret society with a completely separate government and people who’re totally clueless about the muggle world just makes no sense to me.

American wix participate in general elections and watch tv and their kids go to muggle school during the day and learn magic at home or in after-school programs and play quidditch and football and only your great grandma has owls while everyone else just has a phone and generally don’t obliviate muggles who see magic shit bc lol who’s gonna believe them anyway.

And European wix haaaate dealing with them bc they won’t do things the Proper Magical Way they just do whatever the fuck they want bc AMERICA FUCK YEAH.

*eagle noises*

I am here for this

And then you’ve got the Pennsylvania Dutch and Native American nations and New Orleans and other areas where large swathes of the population are like, “Well duh there’s magic. Hugh down at the end of the street lays hexes on my vegetable garden for the kids who keep trying to steal them and I give him a bag of tomatoes every month.”

#like it’s not offensive in the same way#but it’s patently obvious JKR doesn’t understand American or its history at all#and yeah#no way would american magic-users consent to that kind of structure

@monstermoonshine and i once talked about this extensively and decided that the american wizarding government should be called FBOM, the federal bureau of magic, with the O left in for Humor Purposes

#I love how every American looked at jkr’s american wizardry#and then promptly threw it in the harbor with the tea#nah jkr nah we ain’t doin it your way