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What kind of weird world do you people live in? This is obnoxious. Only one person has ever said no? I'd have made it two.
by nsxwolf 13y ago
What kind of weird world do you people live in? This is obnoxious. Only one person has ever said no? I'd have made it two.
- Paul_S 13y agoMaybe that's the only thing this test genuinely tests for. Maybe they don't want employees who let pride get in the way of doing what they are told.
- ch4s3 13y agoThen you would be awful to work for. People should take pride in what they do, and you shouldn't ask them to do demeaning things. I mean, if you run a cleaning service or fix septic tanks... people know what they're in for.
- josephschmoe 13y agoThis sounds like a great way to find people desperate enough to commit legally questionable acts.
- hrktb 13y agoI don't know if it's really a matter of pride, it just feels random, even with the explaination. The candidate is also evaluating the company, and I understand people not willing to work for companies that have evaluation practice they're not OK with (there is the risk the same kind of thinking goes for other evaluations as well)
- binaryapparatus 13y agoThree. If they are talking to me half of their problems is already solved, whether they know it or not. Need dancers? Hire dancers and don't waste my time then...
- neumann 13y agoI would be totally up for the ping-pong game, and enjoy it. Out of habit I would also escalate my skill as the 'tester', but that's because I only like competition when its my level. I would also start analysing whether this is more than just a one on one personality match experiment - which I welcome, but ideally with my future manager/coworkers. If they admitted to filming it, I would thank them for the game, tell them it creeped me out and tell my friends at the pub about the most f*cked up company interview that I ever had.
- codyb 13y agoThe world constantly changes. Currently it is not a societal construct that people play ping pong at job interviews. If the study proves fruitful, perhaps in decades to come, it will be. The real question is why the opportunity to play some friendly ping pong seems so obnoxious to you. Who cares? Why not dismiss the negativity and just have fun playing some ping pong? Perhaps the study will lead to something, if so, sweet! You helped out! Perhaps it won't, okay, well the only way to succeed is to risk failure. But either way you got to engage your brain and play ping pong and meet people and do something out of the ordinary. It seems like something to be embraced.
- baddox 13y agoI'd have said yes, because I enjoy ping pong. But I certainly wouldn't go along with the crazy stuff, like having it videotaped for analysis, answering a questionnaire about my playing ability and aggressiveness, etc. It's pretty clear that, despite saying the opposite, they are literally judging people by their ability. But if you replace ping pong with something similar that I'm not interested in and don't enjoy, then I would probably say no.
- Glyptodon 13y agoI'd rather play ping pong than spend 4 hours programming on a white board. Though maybe that makes me a bad programmer? Ha ha.