<p>My son took a test like this for his first ever job (fast food). He did badly on it. Fortunately the manager really liked him so hired him on a trial basis anyway. He ended up working there for quite a while and was rehired after he had left for Walmart and got tired of the way walmart messes with employees hours. He and the manager are still close friends 6 years later. It is a stupid test.</p>
<p>i was just googling how i should answer these stupid questions. i know most of them are pretty obvious…but some of them are pretty lame.</p>
<p>Jeez, this is such a confusing test! All those double negatives,–what on earth is the point of framing some of the questions that way? Of course none of us wants to see the guilty go free. It seems to me that other than confusing the likes of me who overthink these things, the only people who would be eliminated by this test are those who are so clueless that they would answer honestly.</p>
<p>Reading this made me laugh and remember when DD was looking for her first job at age 16. The plaza down the street from us has a CVS, and we thought that this would be a great place to work because it was so close. Well, she “failed” the test and never got called. The funny thing was, several of her classmates did work there, and all of them ended up getting fired eventually for various reasons. She ended up at Staples and worked there for several years until she left for college. Unfortunately, she is now on the job hunt again for a summer job as her plans for staying at school this summer changed. I will have to pass the “correct answers” on to her so she can reapply at CVS!</p>
<p>Thanks for solving the mystery of why the service is so lousy at our Albertsons. On one famous night I actually spoke loudly to two of the baggers to suggest that they stop chatting and do their jobs so that I could leave the store in a timely manner. (I had a kid waiting for me to pick her up). </p>
<p>The checkout clerk thanked me and explained that she is not their manager and therefore can do nothing about their behavior. </p>
<p>Of course, this was a couple of years ago. Now with self check they never actually have enough checkers/baggers anyway.</p>
<p>“She ended up at Staples and worked there for several years until she left for college.” </p>
<p>But Staples uses the same stupid test, too. Maybe they didn’t when your daughter went there? LOL, I printed out the questions and answers, too, just in case S wants to apply somewhere that uses that!</p>
<p>Bumping this - my daughter has filled this (or similar) out numerous times this summer in her unsuccessful quest for a summer job. Went looking for this old thread to send her the information from it. She did put strongly agree to the question about letting guilty people go!! </p>
<p>She has got every job she ever applied for before now (working at a clinic, in a lab, coordinating 500+ volunteers repairing houses over the summer). Can’t get a job waiting tables or working retail this year!!</p>
<p>Harder tests have come out … like choosing between priorities of work efficiency, warm customer service, public speaking skills – i.e. no longer simple SA/SD questions. For sales positions, I assume customer service is always the top priority and they’re looking to weed out the factory worker type of “worker personality” or the high school debaters.</p>