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[Angel Of Death]

I just saw some shit on the Somethingaweful forums...

Is this website a joke!? I think I saw a moderators ban reason that was "I just don't like him"

[Akigagak]

Well, it's a place where you can buy moderation privileges.

So yes, it's a joke.

[Angel Of Death]

Speaking of seeing some shit, I'm sad because of my (Warning, not for the really, really wimpy)

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diarrhea. Ugh. It burns so much.

[Aqizzar]

This online "Clerk and Customer Service" social-skills questionaire thing is total bullshit and rapidly crushing my soul.  It's impossible to choose an answer that doesn't make me sound like either a tool or that I'm trying to game the system.  But if I try not to look like I'm gaming the test, will overly self-critical responses (since I'm basically grading myself) just make me sound like a bad employee?  Are they judging the responses at face-value, judging the ability to pick the "right" answers, or judging the honesty?  This is like high-octane anxiety fuel for people who are self-critical and extrapolative by nature.

Not to mention it's only compatible with Internet Explorer, so it's pissing me right off just in format.

Well, it's a place where you can buy moderation privileges.

If you're trying to run a "social networking" type environment as a business, which is what the SomethingAwful forums is, you have to admit that letting members pay you to wage war on each other is an awesome business model.

[scriver]

I'm sad again. Mornings are the worst.

[Akigagak]

Well, it's a place where you can buy moderation privileges.

If you're trying to run a "social networking" type environment as a business, which is what the SomethingAwful forums is, you have to admit that letting members pay you to wage war on each other is an awesome business model.

Yes, it's good business sense. They can just ignore what goes on as long as they keep getting paid for Mod positions, and the money spent of keeping the server working is paid for by the presumably considerably larger ad revenue and income from the trolls and power-mad nerds that buy into the features for the purpose of screwing with people.

But being based on good business doesn't make the forums much other than a wretched hive of scum and villainy. I lurked around for LPs, then got annoyed at that and just started keeping an eye on the LPArchive.

[Aqizzar]

This online "Clerk and Customer Service" social-skills questionaire thing is total bullshit and rapidly crushing my soul.

This just keeps getting better.  I got a 23/25 score on a "Microsoft Outlook Test" because of who knows what reasons.  Looking around the net (Google autocompleted every cheat-question to the letter), it appears to be a common problem of poor wording.

Why would anybody base their decision to hire someone on bullshit like this?  Do the HR people who come up with hiring procedures ever think to subject themselves to it as a test?

[Akigagak]

This online "Clerk and Customer Service" social-skills questionaire thing is total bullshit and rapidly crushing my soul.

This just keeps getting better.  I got a 23/25 score on a "Microsoft Outlook Test" because of who knows what reasons.  Looking around the net (Google autocompleted every cheat-question to the letter), it appears to be a common problem of poor wording.

Why would anybody base their decision to hire someone on bullshit like this?  Do the HR people who come up with hiring procedures ever think to subject themselves to it as a test?

I've taken a couple of these sorts of bastardly patronizing tests recently, for incredibly depressing reasons. But it turned out the test was less about whatever the hell you said, and more to see if you could do boring, repetitive and intellectually insultingly bullshit tasks when asked. Might be what you're dealing with.

[Aqizzar]

I've taken a couple of these sorts of bastardly patronizing tests recently, for incredibly depressing reasons. But it turned out the test was less about whatever the hell you said, and more to see if you could do boring, repetitive and intellectually insultingly bullshit tasks when asked. Might be what you're dealing with.

Oh well, if they're testing my ability to put up with rigorously mindless computer-related shit, I got that in spades.  See, it's the judging part that's messing with my head.  I can shit out quality all day long.

[Jack_Bread]

It's 3am and I have to go to the Renaissance Fair tomorrow. I don't even think I want to go with how much trouble it is. I could've swore my friend who usually takes us said he wasn't going. I didn't even KNOW that we were even going until yesterday which was a huge hassle. My mom is now mad at me because of my lack of information about stuff. I don't know when we're going. I don't want to go now, but I have no idea if they bought my ticket or something. UHG. I need to sit in the corner for a seocnd...

[Aqizzar]

Finished the Customer Service exam thing.  I am nowhere near as competent with Spanish as I thought I was, and considering how little I regarded my Spanish competency, that's saying something.  Given that I haven't so much as flipped to Telemundo since I graduated, that's absolutely no surprise, but it could certainly wind up shooting me in the foot at some point in this job-seeking process.

[Mindmaker]

I just saw some shit on the Somethingaweful forums...

Is this website a joke!? I think I saw a moderators ban reason that was "I just don't like him"

And how is that any different from that one place, where a moderator banned several people for "agreeing with somebody I didn't like"?

[scriver]

Yeah, because that was totally the whole reason. I understand the bitterness and all, but at least try to keep an objective mind.

[ChairmanPoo]

People *pay* to register at somethingawful's forums. Which is bad enough in itself, but getting banned for a lame reason after coughing up cash for a SA forum account is even sadder.

[Mindmaker]

That's exactly what I'm doing scriver, thank you.