Sounds like the kid I had in a remedial reading class I taught for high school. This is the class you go to (and stay in) until you pass the state mandated reading test. No pass - no graduate.
Obviously a smart kid. So one day we are chatting before class starts, and I ask him why he is in my class, as he is certainly more that capable of passing the test. "Was is test anxiety? Do you have a hard time testing?" I ask, figuring this is the most likely reason he didn't pass the test. "Nope. I thought it was a big waste of my time, so I just bubbled in answers randomly." <head slap> I asked him if he learned a valuable lesson from his experience. Thank goodness he admitted that he did. When he did his retake that semester he nearly aced the test... Dan On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Depending on what hole I was looking to fill on a team I wouldn't find a lack > of joke a problem. I'm usually the jokester so its nice to have a straight > man around. Gotta balance the team. > > I'm usually the one that breaks the curve on the oddball questions. Did I > ever tell you guys about the time I took the Meyers-Briggs personality > survey? We did it with work. Apparently we took the "super intensive" or > something, I forget exactly but there were something like 2,000 questions, it > took several days to complete (meanwhile getting no real work done). > > Many of the questions were of the type "do you believe A or B?" and it got to > the point where sometimes I thought "well, both" or "Neither" so after awhile > I started filling in two bubbles per question. Then I started filling in many > bubbles so it spelled out words like: "This test sucks", sometimes I'd fill > in all As for awhile, then all B, then all C and so on. > > So after wasting all this time they take the whole group of us to a ski > resort for a day of skiing and a couple days of team building and going over > the test. This is when I start to get nervous. They announce "Somebody > thought they'd be a smart alec and fill in multiple bubbles" and the project > on the screen some of my answers. At this point I'm absolutely sure I'm going > to be fired. Then they announce "the joke is on the jokester, the test is > designed to take his personality type into account." All eyes on me at this > point, I'm the OBVIOUS culprit. > > The test breaks you into personality types and I forget how it all works out > but I'm a creative, turns out 2 people in my group are creatives, one is an > introvert, the other an extrovert. They tell us that this is great because > one should be the manager of the other and in fact those two people are in a > manager/employee relationship. Turns out its me and my boss, but I'm the > extrovert. I thought his head was going to explode he turned so red. > > A month later the company is bought, we all lose our jobs. > > -Curt > > > Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:09:08 -0500 > From: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] My Keck Interview > Message-ID: <504627a4.6050...@bennell.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Two comments. > > I wonder what the acceptable or preferred answer is to the question > about different solutions to a problem by different team members? I had > a very similar question put to me at an interview I had for a job in the > provincial land titles office a number of years back. > Obviously it is a standard type question and although there is no > obvious "right" answer, they are obviously looking for how you respond > and I wonder what they would like to hear. > > Second thing is in regard to the question about a joke. It is too bad > that you did not come up with something quick and good but it is very > good that you did not tell some off color, sexist, or racist joke etc. > Obviously, that would likely be the end of any hope you might have and > it is amazing how many people who are very intelligent might fall for > that. I do wish you had managed to come up with something however as it > shows an ability to think on your feet when you get an out of the blue > oddball question. It also shows something of your personality if you are > able to tell a nice clean joke. It shows other interests in life and > that you are not a total dweeb. It does not matter how smart and > dedicated you are if you have no personality or sense of humour. > > Please don't take what I have said too personally. I'm just running off > a the mouth and probably would not have done any better at it than you > did. It is a difficult thing to answer when you are primed for business > and trying to be careful. > > I know I have been trying to think of some good joke while typing this > and the best I have come up with so far is the old George Carlin > monologue where he talks about things like "hot water heaters" and > "flammable vs inflammable". > > Randy > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
