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fingertipsmp3 · 4 months ago

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This place I applied for a job at keeps emailing me (automatic emails not a real human being) asking why I haven’t done the tests they asked me to do and I don’t know how to explain to them it’s because their tests feel like psychological warfare

#i did the first like 3 or 4 (there were ELEVEN) before i had to bow out because i was too stressed and my hands were so sweaty i was worrie #my dyshidrotic eczema was going to flare up #what’s the job? PART TIME RETAIL ASSISTANT AT [redacted] CASINO/BETTING SHOP #i was like. i pass this place every day there is no possible way their employees can pass these tests #it started out normal. just having me remember a sequence #but then it got into testing my hand-eye coordination and it was constantly going ‘nerr you’re too slow’ if i took longer than half a secon #to process the information. i was like i’m sorry but this isn’t realistic #this job is retail assistant at a bookie’s not fucking air traffic controller. NO ONE needs to be able to react that fast #i guarantee if this shit flashed on the screen there; the worker’d be calling to the manager like ‘hey guv what does this thing mean?’#and every employee plus one of the people who works in the butcher’s next door plus 70% of the patrons would end up gathered around #the screen puzzling it out for 20+ minutes. then someone who didn’t even leave their slot machine would be like ‘have you checked x?’#and they’d try it and it would work and everyone would go ‘ohhhh’ and disperse #i know because i’ve seen this time and time again #you don’t need to be able to react quickly at any retail job in the uk. in fact it’s probably a detriment #they really had the audacity to call these tests ‘fun games’ they are NOT fun games i am going to break a nail trying to keep up w/ this sh #sidenote how do people type with long nails. i know it’s wrong of me to type using the honest to god tips/ends of my fingers #and not the pads. but i’m a recovering lifelong nail biter and i can’t get out of the habit of typing in this terrible way #i don’t even Have long nails. only my thumb nails have cleared the ends of my fingers thus far. but they feel fucking godawful to type with #i’m fine on phones but my laptop……. i think i’m gonna straight up have to relearn to type #personal

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