Had to take a personality test for work

"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce) 06/25/2014 at 11:08 • Filed to: None

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Two weeks ago, I had to take one of those "personality assessment" tests. I believe it was called "Predictive Index" or something like that. Well it turns out I scored almost identically the same as my current boss. Clip is relevant. My boss is not happy that his bosses want him to let me take on more projects.

The kicker was that when I took the assessment, I thought to myself "How would a gigantic asswipe of a man wit no empathy or sympathy answer this while also taking into account his minor sociopathic tendancies and a general disregard and disrespect of people who don't make as much money as him?" and apparently I got it dead on. While we were going over my results, I had to fight so hard not to burst out laughing when he came to what I need to do for the rest of the day and ended the list with ".....if you could do all of that, that would be greeeeat."

But I guess in the end, the joke's on me because I am getting a new boss in addition to the three I already have. Why they need 4 managers for a single chemist is beyond me......Oh well, I'm still getting paid. I guess that's reason enough to find out how to deal with the new boss. Not really that bad (I'm obviously on Oppo right now so duh....) just amusing how my career has turned into Office Space.

Thanks for listening Oppo. Have my inspiration to come into work everyday. Only imagine a Fiesta ST looking like this. Mmmmmmm.....martini livery.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 06/25/2014 at 11:12

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Those tests are generally garbage anyway. My workplace is already Office Space.

Biggest issue, no one knows how to actually plan things out, so it's either find something vaguely constructive to do, or work 27 hours a day to do something that everyone saw coming 4 months back.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 06/25/2014 at 11:13

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You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 06/25/2014 at 11:17

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actually plan things out

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/25/2014 at 11:17

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Me in a nutshell for some of the "projects" I get dumped on me. As an R&D person, it isn't a "project" when I'm cleaning up someone else's mistakes and basically doing their job for them. It also isn't a project if I have to work extra hard to figure out how to make extra cheap raw materials work because my direct boss is too cheap to buy what we've always bought and too disrespectful to not tell anyone until it blows up in our faces.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 06/25/2014 at 11:20

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Extra cheap materials -> investigate how to make them work = "Research" and "Development"

Oh, that's researching and developing something all right...

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/25/2014 at 11:21

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1) You got Kinja'd

2) I think there are people at my office who think there are 27 hours in a day.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 06/25/2014 at 11:23

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Same answer as Kinja'd previous, this time in filename form:

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philipilihp > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 06/25/2014 at 11:56

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I'M A PEOPLE PERSON!!!