This is a new one lol. Maybe my astrological sign will help me get hired?!?
Posted May 10, 2022, 12:07 AM UTC
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The Myers Briggs is such fucking horseshit. At some point hopefully soon its listed along with phrenology and divining humors.
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I used to have a manager who was HEAVILY into it.
She gave us all a test, then based her "management style" on that.
She'd get mad & say "I don't get why you're acting like an extrovert when your test said you were an introvert!? You must have lied on the test"
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Even IF Myers-Briggs weren’t horseshit, pretty sure your manager was using it wrong anyway. In Myers-Briggs, each type has a dominant, auxiliary, tertiary and inferior function. So while you might be an extrovert (according to said horseshit), you can still display introverted traits under another function, if you’re stressed or in an unfamiliar situation for example.
If she’s going to believe pseudoscience, she should at least learn the pseudoscience properly. Ignorance layered upon ignorance.
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I mean isn’t that the issue with most personality tests- it’s gotta fit everyone into a handful of categories and then to support that idea it has to have thousands of variations for why or when a specific type is acting a certain way.
I think well written personality tests can help some people become more self aware and ideally that leads to personal growth. But the use of them at work or in professional settings seems odd to me
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I woulda shown her the batwing and left
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Wow that sounds infuriating
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On that test it said I'm an INTJ and recall I scored 51 in introvert and 49 in extrovert
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Right!!! I hope so
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Not this particular test, but in a college prep class I took, they gave one to determine if you were left/right brain to try to help with learning style. I had to take the test twice using different answers that "could have" applied. Both times I was right down the middle. I don't think the lady knew what to do with me. She was just like "Uh, do whatever works for you."
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Hell, in Japan and Korea they go by blood types for jobs.
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So weird to invent a new superstition (certain blood types are better for certain jobs) that developed after a scientific discovery (blood types are a thing).
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That sort of thing is weird but it happens all the time. Some people believe 5G causes COVID but they couldn’t tell you any laws of thermodynamics. Science pushes things forward, confused idiots get muddled and make up silly stories.
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I think you mean electromagnetism
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Seriously?
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Very.
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It says astrology twice. Myers Briggs is some Cosmopolitan Love Quiz level BS.
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Hahaha amen
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I want someone to sue and say they're discriminating against a certain type of astrology sign. It would be such horseshit but it would be sooo good to watch unfold. "This bitch hates Aries"
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That's embarrassing. They could just ask you for your birthday and look it up. But they're ok with looking like assholes.
Edit: as pointed out, a person's birth place and time of day would be required to do a full chart. You could just ask for a copy of their birth certificate, but the point is that the whole thing is asinine.
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They'd need the location too. And without the time of birth, they couldn't place the houses accurately.
There's a joke in astrology though, essentially this employer is asking for your soul's dick pic.
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I’d rather send a dick pic than work for someone who believes in astrology.
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Me, I'm much more interested in whether they believe in paying people what they're worth, in dollars and dignity.
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Yeah I dont care if they believe in astrology and love it. They can do whatever they want, just pay people good money and treat them with respect.
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I hadn't heard it put like that -- funny -- but it really is like that.
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Even if you tell someone you think it's bullshit and don't know. They'll always beike you're so Jalapeno Popper or Berry Gatorade, I don't know this shit I'm not a geologist.
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Run away, far far away
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As an astrologer, this is annoying and upsetting 🙄
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The fuck is an astrologer?
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Someone who studies astrology lol, pretty self explanatory
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Someone who studies bullshit that astronomers made up to get stupid rich people's money?
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let people have their own spiritual life....
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To clarify: astronomer is not the same thing as an astrologer.
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What makes my study of astrology have any relevance on how I make money? Did I somehow become the hiring manager? Lol
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Usually good to use the right words when making and argument.
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Like an astronomer but dumb. They look at stars, but instead of astronomy they play connect the dots with them then attribute human behavior to the pictures they draw
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I was once turned down for a barista job 20 years ago because the owner said he didn't like the tarot reading he did over the decision to hire me or not.
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On the plus side, that sounds like you dodged a bullet there.
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Doubly so, because he was sued for sexual harrassment by the male he DID hire.
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Are they taking the piss?
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Nope, was looking for job in the cannabis industry in DC area and this came up lol
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Ah, that explains it.
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Well, for purposes of the app…Earth sign it is!
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Probably want to be an air sign to work in that industry.
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Lol I'm in DC what's the company?
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Meyers/Briggs provides EXACTLY the same amount of relevant data as an astrology chart.
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Yep. The only relevant data these things provide are personal introspection. And a job sure as hell cant introspect for you
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True story: in the 80s I had a job working temp at a Cigna insurance corp in Connecticut. The (also-temp) supervisor there was really into astrology. I liked her a lot, not to mention she was my boss, so I was cheerfully interested in the subject, more than my actual interest. We talked of this often while walking a very long hallway together in the morning from where the bus let off. One day about halfway down the hall, I find some reason to mention in passing that I was a virgo. She stopped dead in her tracks, looked at me seriously (and slightly like I was vermin) and in a completely different voice said, I never get along with Virgos. And turned and walked away. I literally stood in the hall like an idiot with my mouth open watching her go, I was so stunned. She turned the corner and that was that. She would have nothing to do with me after that! Boggles my mind to this day.
I'd be worried someone asking for that for my job -- this is, if someone is into it, an incredibly intimate thing to share with someone actually, because they are going to have 10,000 assumptions about you as a result -- that it would be something like that: anybody who takes it seriously enough to want to know such a thing, likely has a degree of assumed-truth with it. And what I have learned from intervening decades with jungian/archetypal meditation that in fact uses astrology, is that most people who think they're experts are astoundingly bad at it. So you're not only getting someone who'll assign an entire personality resume to you, but the chances are incredibly high that they are not competent to do it, even in that model.
So... you might want to pass. :-)
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I am a meat popsicle!
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Dumb and dumber
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I'm a Capricorn with a Virgo rising so I deserve a raise.
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The only thing I appreciate about my star sign is that I could never get into astrology because of it. Apparently being born in June as a Gemini inherently makes me a two faced bitch in the eyes of that community.
But fr, all I'd ever seen from astrology is either people acting bigoted over my birthday date, or people shrugging off all responsibility for their actions because of Mercury's position.
That ad is a mile long red flag and I wouldn't touch it with gloves on.
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I’m an Aries no one will ever fucking hire me hahaha
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You laugh but it might be true
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And I thought being asked why I wanted to be a dragon on an application was a bridge too far but this is something else
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The only acceptable answer is to hoard gold. Thus why you are looking for work.
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Damn that never occurred to me, no wonder they didn’t offer me a job
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I'm at least satisfied to see they had the sense to group Myers-Briggs in the same category as astrology. They're halfway there.
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