<p>If anyone finds out what the “correct” answers to these questions are, I’d be curious to know.</p>
<p>PA Mom, I agree - what happened to the good old-fashioned one-on-one interview with the manager? No wonder I can’t get any knowledgeable help at some stores! Of course, the store clerks might have personalities very fitting the corporate “profile”, but I’d rather see a kid who can point me to the right shelf than a Ms. Perfect Fit who’s never read Tolstoy!</p>
<p>My husband has shopped at this Alberston’s for 19 years…he knows everyone there by name; when he passes by, the produce guy and the bakery gal hand him reduced price stuff (that they’ve reduced just for him.) The florist lady sends home armloads of flowers that she’s put a $1 price tag on for him. The freezer guy shows him the stuff they’ve just marked down.</p>
<p>BUT per corporate policy, they cannot even schedule an interview with Son until/unless he gets a green/green on the test. They still do the interviews, but they don’t have the discretion to choose who they want to interview.</p>
<p>Can you imagine the financial aid problems for some students if colleges were required to administer those tests to the student work force? Maybe they don’t use them because they would have no workers to clean the bathrooms, serve the food, check out library materials… Or- has anyone heard of colleges that do?</p>
<p>Add Staples to the list that does this test, too! And what was even more aggravating, for whatever reason, the test wasn’t working properly when S took it, so he called Staples to ask what to do and they couldn’t help him with that - “just take it later”. He wanted to apply for a PC tech job that was listed as available on the list of jobs, along with CSR, copy person, etc. Well, when he asked the HR person about it, HR said “oh, we are not hiring for that position now. As a matter of fact we don’t have any openings.” Grrrr, then WHY is it listed on Unicru??? I check other Staples list of openings and they all list the exact same ones. Called another Staples and they say no, they aren’t hiring now. Really aggravating.</p>
<p>“When did you stop beating your wife?” </p>
<p>That’s a classic cross-examination question, impossible to answer well. </p>
<p>If you say when you stopped, you’ve just admitted horrible criminal behavior.</p>
<p>If you say you “haven’t stopped,” you’ve just admitted ongoing horrible criminal behavior.</p>
<p>I heard about a mom trying to teach her son to say nicer things about people. He was lambasting some girl in his classroom. The mom said, Oh, come on! There must be something you about her that’s nice!" He said, “For a mean girl, she doesn’t sweat much.”</p>
<p>I hate no-win questions. I’d flunk that test 20 different ways, I’m sure.</p>
<p>My son took this test for a job as a bagger at Acme (our regional name for Albertson’s) last summer. He was amazed and had a good chuckle, because in his opinion the test was about aptitude for figuring out the answers they wanted on the test! He passed first time but unfortunately did not very much enjoy his stint there as a bagger.</p>
<p>Well, we must have figured out the test, because Albertson’s just called and asked him to come in and take a drug test!</p>
<p>The second time around, he basically answered the questions the same way as the first, only instead of “agree” or “disagree” he checked “strongly agree” or “strongly disagree.” Silly. If your local bag boy is dramatic, opinionated person, that’s obviously what they’re looking for!</p>
<p>Congratulations to missypie’s son and thanks for figuring this test out for the rest of us!</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>Back in the day you could just ace the personal interview by dressing nicely, smiling, and swearing up and down that _<strong><em>Burgers or _</em></strong>__Market was where you’ve wanted to work all your life!</p>
<p>Summer jobs…don’t you love them?</p>
<p>Add Chilis to the list. DS took the test there and didn’t pass it. He has four years of experience waiting tables and apparently that doesn’t count for anything. It’s all about the test. He is a mild mannered kid who deals well with conflict but doesn’t like to create conflict. My guess is that he did the middle of the road in an effort not to offend anyone. Oh well…does Applebees have a test? He applied there too…</p>
<p>Luckily as a Wikipedia admin, I have access to the deleted material. (It was deleted then removed from the history.) I’ll post it right here:</p>
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<p>It was supposedly taken down for copyright reasons, but I think this was just not to get the project in legal trouble. From a libertarian point of view, I consider this information to be the right of the public domain, so I have little qualms about posting this. 
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<p>Oh well, time to file another application with the “right” answers.</p>
<p>For some reason why I think I still get horrible customer service at some of these shops is because they get answered by people who <em>think</em> they’re the life of the party. Oh well. :/</p>
<p>Say, when I refile my application, should I dare to ask for higher than minimum wage? This test must decrease labour supply by quite a bit, enough to boost the market price of labour for companies that want to use this sort of test?</p>
<p>Here is why you get horrible customer service: To get his job at Albertson’s, Son had to pass Unicru (which he did on the second try after we did a lot of research on the “right” answers) and pass a drug test. He NEVER had a face to face interview. When he was called after Unicru, he was told that after he passed the drug test he was hired. Recall that one can do the application/unicru test on line. The drug test is offsite. So that means that people can truly be hired sight unseen. I guess that does cut down on many forms of discrimination, but it totally eliminates a supervisor’s ability to hire someone that they, in their experience, think would be good with customers.</p>
<p>I don’t recall anyone mentioning Walmart using this test. I’ve often wondered why our local Target has mostly native English language speakers working there, while Walmart, less than a mile away, has lots of immigrants (a lot of Eastern Europeans and Africans.) Unicru requires quite an understanding of the English language, specifically double negatives. If Walmart doesn’t require Unicru, that would explain why non-native speakers can get hired there but not at Target.</p>
<p>I like the “any trouble you have is your own fault” question.</p>
<p>i think this is the most ■■■■■■■■ thing that companies can possibly do. in no way can it tell you how a person thinks or how hard they will work because everyone knows about these tests and only answers how they think the company wants to hear it. i failed the one for sam’s club and one other place, and some of the questions were complete BS. if you overthink some of the statements, it can really be answered either way without making the response sound negative. anyway, wish me luck as i apply for wachovia. also, has anyone tried to use the answers above from wikipedia?</p>
<p>I have worked for many businesses in my many years, only one of which I had to take a test like this for. That company had more truly weird and downright strange people employed than I have ever worked with before or since. The fact that they hired me after I took that test kind of worries me…</p>
<p>How (where? and… WHY?) do you find these old threads??</p>
<p>I figured it was an old thread when I read that someone took the test for Circuit City.</p>
<p>Ha ha!</p>
<p>How did this thread get revived?</p>
<p>I remember taking the same test at Albertson’s.</p>
<p>I actually scored so well my hiring manager complemented me on it (98%). I honestly believe you can not score that high unless you consciously “cheat” on that sort of test. I did think through each question, and considered how a corporate overlord would want his ideal drones to act.</p>
<p>On the above cheat sheet I found some errors after casually looking through it:
You do not fake being polite SD</p>
<p>Should be SA (Strongly Agree). Your employer does not want you to “fake” being polite.</p>
<p>AND</p>
<p>It is maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free. SA</p>
<p>Should be SD (Strongly Disagree). Courts do not let “guilty” criminals go free. By stating you get mad, not only does it indicate, according to the test, that you have a temper, but that you have a lack of respect for an authority greater than yourself.</p>
<p>BTW, I personally believe all this testing stuff is total BS, and anyone with an awareness can easily bypass this “screening device.” Furthermore, these tests seem to little or nothing about employee turnover, which was the problem these businesses were having. Maybe they could pay a decent wage and stop implementing a myriad of absurd policies?</p>
<p>That said, once I became a cashier, it was the best job I have had so far. Makes me afraid of the “real world”. :</p>