January 18, 2007

forms...

have you ever filled out those forms for companies that want u'r whole life history? They also want examples of when you displayed exemplary heroics, leaderships skills, innovation and basically displayed the early signs of being the next Bill Gates, Mahatma Gandhi and Sachin Tendulkar all rolled in one.
My roomie is filling out tons of these forms almost everyday. She's a mild mannered and gentlefor most part but filling the forms has turned her into a raving lunatic for the larger part of the day. She abuses the company, despairs that she has to write pure bullshit and then is usually at the brink of giving up on the whole deal halfway through it.
I wonder which idiot thought of these types of forms as a good way to judge potential employees. Actually they should be used as a way to judge potential fiction authors.Even worse are those psychometric or psychoanalytic tests.... but more on that later...!