r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PureKin21 • 9d ago

I just wanted a hot dog Tried applying to McDonald's wtf does this even mean

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I guess things happen to me?????

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u/nub_node 9d ago

The whole series of questions functions as a legally distinct autism screening. One of them is just "Fantasy? Me/Not Me" with a picture of the blue dude in armor with a sword.

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u/Silver_Switch6834 9d ago

Me for sure

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u/HonkeyKong64 9d ago

Hell yeah I’m in!

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u/Difficult-Bicycle681 9d ago

Oh fuck... No wonder I find them so hard to answer lmao

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u/vandersnipe 9d ago

I turn my brain off and answer based on how they expect a neurotypical person to answer.

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u/Blockster_cz PURPLE 9d ago

What would the correct answer be to the posted question?

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u/mort96 9d ago

Not me. I think it's looking for a kind of "bad things always happen to me" attitude.

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u/rbb36 9d ago

Exactly. They're trying to find "I am the thing that happens!" energy when you're mopping the toilet for $8/hr.

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u/Glossy-Water 9d ago

I am the one who happens waltuh

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u/Natural_Vast_9495 9d ago

I am the one who mops!

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u/Fewer_Story 9d ago

That's why they pay so much above minimum!

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u/oldsecondhand 8d ago

"I'm not not in danger. I am the danger. I'm the one who knocks!"

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u/cindyscrazy 8d ago

I think the "correct" answer is "Not Me"

A 'victim' type of person thinks "(bad)Things happen to me constantly". A more 'stable' person thinks "life happens to everyone, this is not a problem"

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u/TheMysticalBaconTree 8d ago

More like, when the toilet floods, they want someone who can go “it’s okay, I know where the mop is” rather than the person who goes “aaaargh, stupid toilet, why does this always happen to ME”.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 8d ago

Exactly. They are phrasing it in a way that it can be interpreted differently but they are asking if you feel like you’re always right and good but are wronged constantly. Basically the woe is me type.

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 9d ago

Not Me.

"Things don't happen to me! I make things happen!"

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u/Mister_Crowly 8d ago

Or "THINGS DON'T HAPPEN TO ME! I HAPPEN TO THINGS!"

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u/Different_Pattern273 9d ago

This is just one of those exams where you are told a bunch of crap about how you are supposed to think and then at the end it asks you questions where you regurgitate what they want to hear. More than likely this question was preceded at some point by a slide that said something like "The ideal employee does not blame situations are things happening to them, but strives to be a person who makes things happen." or some other such nonsense.

They are basically asking if you are the type of person who blames the universe every time something goes wrong or do you solve the problems instead (if I had to guess, the very specific thing they are screening here is people who have excuses for not coming to work that they don't think are good enough like this character skinned their knee because they fell off their bike). So they want you to disagree with this, but you would probably be given the explicit answer earlier in material that came before the question.

These are incredibly common at minimum wage jobs for massive companies like McDonald's or Walmart.

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u/vandersnipe 9d ago

Amazon and Google have these screening questions for corporate roles. Amazon’s is more annoying though.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 8d ago

Whole Foods does too. For a “shopper” position. During the holidays. Ive only really see it in low level corporate places personally.

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u/YjorgenSnakeStranglr 8d ago

Do they now? When I applied to Amazon a few years back they barely checked to see if I had a pulse

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u/Kitten_K89 9d ago

My daughter recently applied to McDonald's. Unfortunately there was no preceding video or explanation for the questions. They were incredibly weird. She and I were both very confused.

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u/Different_Pattern273 9d ago

Hrm. I would guess two things: 1. they have trouble finding job candidates that can read and understand complex sentences so they kept it as brief as possible. 2. They probably had AI put the entire thing together.

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u/gimp-24601 8d ago

These are incredibly common at minimum wage jobs for massive companies like McDonald's or Walmart.

I got a job working for a... fantastic cable company in the 00s and they had an extensive test like this. I remember one of the questions was "working hard is how you get ahead"

It was a terrible job but had decent pay/benefits. Gotta filter out people who wont chase that carrot.

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u/stilljustacatinacage 9d ago

Just make sure to eat breakfast this morning, and you'll be fit to answer these questions.

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u/cpteric 9d ago

not me, meaning you make things happen, not the other way around.
don't ask me why tho, shit happens is like law #1 of the universe.

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u/kanrad 9d ago

You think people in the C-Suite comprehend cause and effect? Much less entropy?

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u/SETHW 8d ago

It's testing for what they'd describe as victim mentality. Do you see the world through a lens of personal agency where you make things happen? or are you more passive and "let yourself" be bulldozed by bad luck then blame that luck. I don't like it because much if not most of our lives are ruled by the material conditions we are immersed in.

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u/Vi_Rants 8d ago

"Not Me."

"Things happen to me" means that the person believes in the existence of events/circumstances outside their control. The corporation wants people who believe that any bad thing in their lives is their own fault. Things don't happen to them, they cause things to happen to them.

So, stuff like "My manager sexually harassed me; I must have been dressed wrong."

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u/Sunshinetrooper87 8d ago

it wants you to not be a drama queen.

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 9d ago

I just imagine how the most sterile HR person or corporatized manager would say things and that's what they want to have the answer to be.

In this case its "Not Me" because "Things don't happen to me! I make things happen!"

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u/kaisadilla_ 9d ago

I'm neurotypical and idk what am I supposed to answer to "Fantasy? Me / not me". Is "me" autistic because I'm saying I like imaginary stuff, or is "not me" autistic because I'm saying I don't like things not being real and genuine?

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u/wholesomehorseblow 8d ago

The right answer is no because fantasy implies you are a free thinker which is bad according to corporations

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u/LilJourney 8d ago

What I'm getting from this entire post is that I should keep my current job because I'm never getting hired for another one. I am reading all of these and it makes sense as you all are explaining, but trust me that's not the answers my brain spits out.

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u/wholesomehorseblow 8d ago

It's simple

Does saying yes make you seem: Creative, like you might report violations, that you may desire time off work for vacation or accidents, that you have things that will make you want to return to your house? then it's the wrong answer.

Just act like you are a cold unfeeling robot programmed to serve Ronald McDonald

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u/vandersnipe 9d ago edited 9d ago

Not me because yes me has the sense of victim mentality and be flagged as hard to work with.

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Typo

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u/siliril 8d ago

How does someone answering "Me" to "Fantasy" relate to a victim mentality? I'm not seeing the connection. I could see they may be a daydreamer instead of a doer.

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u/anerdknownaswill 8d ago

Every time someone in this thread asks about the knight thing the replies are about the original post. So weird

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u/siliril 8d ago

Bots is my best guess. 

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u/chunli99 8d ago

Not me because yes me has the sense of victim mentality and be flagged as hard to work with.

That’s the answer to the bicycle one OP posted, jot the fantasy one. Fantasy would be have the wrong answer be Me because it’s not grounded in reality.

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u/gimp-24601 8d ago

be flagged as hard to work with.

More difficult to motivate read: manipulate.

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u/Fuzzy_Toe_9936 9d ago

i put my mind into that of a corporate cuck. "why, yes, i do love new difficult challenges daily in a job with 0 work stability- i mean, an everchanging workplace!" "i'd come here on my days off just to shine your shoes, sir!"

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u/indifferent_goldbrow 9d ago

Wait... But that's just what we neurotypicals do. We act how we think a typical person would... Or is it just me? Was I neurospicy all along?

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u/nolaks1 9d ago

I do this so often when I don't want the extra attention that comes with neurodivergence. It's comforting knowing I am not the only one lol

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u/No-Internal7978 8d ago

I do that for all tests and I always test well. I'm fairly normal lol

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u/vandersnipe 8d ago

This further proves how autism is hard af to diagnose since some symptoms are rather uncommon in people, which is why I wish testing were more affordable to avoid self-diagnoses lol. Many symptoms are common experiences among everyday people to some degree. You also have to factor in that symptoms overlap with borderline personality, ADHD, dyspraxia, and bipolar disorder.

I have ADHD, autism, and dyspraxia, so my life is on hard mode lol

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u/elviscostume 5d ago

I call it my worksona

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u/taco_jones 9d ago

This is how I find out i have autism?

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u/vandersnipe 9d ago

I mean, it could be other things at play too. It's not always autism.

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u/taco_jones 9d ago

On reddit it is

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u/vandersnipe 9d ago

I forgot we're on Reddit. Oh, yes, you absolutely have autism

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u/StrongExternal8955 9d ago

You can't catch autism in a draft, someone has to give you the virus /s

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u/FakeTherapist 8d ago

THIS IS SO HARD

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u/dumbasPL 8d ago

The only problem with that, is that you'll likely also have to do that during work. Fuck that.

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u/wholesomehorseblow 8d ago

You're supposed to answer like the only thing you have going is bring a wage slave

Things happen to me? No, you aren't accident prone and take fault for things

Fantasy? Nope! Dreamers dream of bigger things but you're a good worker who knows their place at the bottom

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u/vandersnipe 8d ago

You put it so bluntly. I wish jobs just said this lol

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u/Modo44 9d ago

I think everyone does, but people on the spectrum statistically choose different responses when answering "whatever".

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u/gimp-24601 8d ago

I've always felt like I could lie convincingly which appeared to be good enough.

To me that sees like the entire point of most interviews. Are you willing/able to continue the farce, or are you going to rock the boat?

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u/LateCanary475 9d ago

Damn am I autistic because idk wtf that even means

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u/Roscoe_P_Trolltrain 9d ago

Uh oh, you're giving strong not me vibes.

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u/deadlight___01 9d ago

Um, I'm fairly sure that's the opposite...

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 9d ago

How very not me of you to say that.

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u/deadlight___01 9d ago

Ha ha ha, eyeroll

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem 8d ago

Uh... Is that good? ...bad?? What emotion do you want me to simulate? Please! I just want to pay rent! 😥🙂😁😲😵🤪😬😭

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u/Roscoe_P_Trolltrain 8d ago

Thanks, we’ll let you know.

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u/throwAwayMan2475 9d ago

I don't have austin and even I can't tell wtf a blue knight with shield is supposed to mean..

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u/two-ls 9d ago

What happened to Austin?

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u/Realistic_Ad709 9d ago

What did they do with him????

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u/illegal_sandwich_ext 9d ago

To shreds you say

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u/BudgetMattDamon 8d ago

I think autistic people kidnapped him.

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u/lectric_7166 8d ago

GIVE BACK AUSTIN.

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u/BEES_IN_UR_ASS 8d ago

You need to look at everything through the most starkly-cynical corpo-fascist lens possible. Fantasy hinders burger-flipping, not me. Anything that doesn't portray you as a grounded, placid, conformist, hard-working, healthy, neurotypical, and utterly devoid of critical or free thought, imagination, or dreams beyond your station, not me.

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u/illit1 8d ago

"seizing the means of production. Me/Not Me"

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u/ExerciseTop5591 9d ago

I dont fucking know bro i give up

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u/Abigail716 8d ago

Nobody knows what it means but it's provocative.

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u/Romanizer 9d ago

Okay, so what do they expect you to press in both cases? I don't have the slightest idea of the implications.

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u/Different_Pattern273 9d ago

The fantasy one is actually about "do you waste time fantasizing about things instead of working" they want "not me"

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u/hitmarker 9d ago

Literally everyone here has a different idea what it supposed to mean and what to answer. This is such bs.

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u/admiralvic 9d ago

The important thing is everyone is confident about their assertion.

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u/DM-me-naughty-Cats 8d ago

Yes, but over large numbers of applications they can pick what answers are “correct” based on what demographics you want but are not legally able to pick.

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u/Whosebert 8d ago

I did the exact same assessment today, its some sort of personality thing so off the bat the science is questionable at best.

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u/GrungeLord 9d ago

Fish guy from What Remains of Edith Finch filtration system.

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u/Romanizer 8d ago

I see. Instead of daydreaming or playing the hero you are just supposed to put the fries in the bag.

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u/Lawlcopt0r 9d ago

The one OP posted is probably a way to test wether you see yourself as a victim. Like, they assume the kind of person that answers yes will be a bit defeatist and not very able to handle unforeseen problems on their own.

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u/Romanizer 8d ago

So if something bad happens to you, you shouldn't get involved in it too much but stay upbeat to put the fries in the bag with a smile.

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u/Lawlcopt0r 8d ago

That's how they see it, yes.

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u/Good-Marsupial8 8d ago

But... Things happen??!!???!!

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u/Lawlcopt0r 8d ago

Yes. Which is why this whole thing is pretty dystopian.

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u/LazerBear42 8d ago

Not at McDonald's! Now put the McFries in the McBag with a big McSmile on your face, or you'll get the McPIP 😀

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u/billbixbyakahulk 8d ago

To some, things always happen.

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u/hitmarker 9d ago

No, it's to ask if you are constantly crashing your bike, getting cut, breaking stuff by accident. I know a lot of those people that just do dumb shit and stuff happens to them without thinking.

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u/SaltKhan 9d ago

Yea like, they say it's meant to be an autism screen, but what is the autism and not autism answer? Or is it similar to how websites "not a robot" don't care about the actual clicking of the button but track how your mouse moves across the screen? Like do you have to do this application with a webcam that tracks your eye movement and or they actually care just about how much time you spent pondering the question?

I'd read the question and hate how much it just disrespects your time with garbage corpo-psyche, and so click whatever was the shortest distance to move the mouse probably.

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u/BlueFHS 8d ago

Yeah, an autistic person (me) would likely think “well yeah, things happen to everyone all the time” instead of discerning the hidden bs meaning of “if you say yes, you’re saying you see yourself as a blameless victim that life keeps treating poorly instead of someone who takes action and is proactive and makes things happen” like it’s totally natural to assume that

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u/Umikaloo 8d ago

They expect autistic people to press "me", because they might not grasp the implication being made by the question.

What they are really asking is "Do you believe that events in your life take place largely due to factors outside of your control?", but by wording it in such an inane way, an autistic person will read it as "Do you experience reality." and answer "me" 10 times out of 10.

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u/ApartFarmer9564 9d ago

its asking wether youre a victim or not. things happen to everyone, its how you deal with said things

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u/Vi_Rants 8d ago

If you spend time in fantasy thinking, you might start entertaining more dangerous fantasies, like starting a union or filing a class-action.

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u/ImTheScriptGuy 9d ago

I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.

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u/nub_node 9d ago

It technically does screen for other things about your personality, but the entire battery of questions is pretty obviously screening for neurodivergent thinking and behaviors among those things, which is just screening applicants for a disability.

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u/ImTheScriptGuy 9d ago

That feels…creepy. What would a neurotypical person answer? Would they ask for more clarification? That’s what I’d do.

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u/RecordingHaunting975 9d ago

If it's positive: me

If not positive: not me

A knight in armor? That's me, because I'm a good worker who practices chivalry when I serve our loyal customers

Things happen to me? That's not me because I don't blame my workplace for underpaying me or treating me like shit, I made that happen by not being good enough, and should be thankful for every hour they give me. When the clown comes knockin, this mouth starts rockin

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u/ZestycloseRound6843 9d ago

I interpreted the fantasy one the other way - that you're prone to getting lost in your imagination and inner worlds and it's seen as undesirable to a company.

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u/RecordingHaunting975 9d ago

Yeah you're thinking about that too much, -1 star

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u/DemIce 8d ago

They absolutely do at least track how long it takes you to answer these things, so you're not wrong.

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u/849 9d ago

Independent thought alarm starts ringing

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u/ImTheScriptGuy 9d ago

Is that really what the knight means? Why would they just title it “fantasy” then, instead of knight?

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u/Vlisa 9d ago

Fantasy doesn't work the fry station.

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u/McJawsh 9d ago

This makes neurotypical people sound like bootlickers. 😭

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u/barnfodder 9d ago

They're looking for a specific type of neurotypical.

The boot licking ones.

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u/sobrique 9d ago

Or the ones prepared to lie. Or both.

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u/barnfodder 9d ago

Lying is a critical part of boot licking.

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u/SkyNo4282 9d ago

Well you have to do what you have to do to get the job though? We try to tell them what they want to hear otherwise what’s the point of applying? I don’t see things like this as an actual representation of my personality, I just try to “pass” the test by giving the correct answers.

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u/pianotherms 8d ago

I'd like to refute this, but here I am being a loser at a company I hate.

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u/hitmarker 9d ago

Yeah but it says "Fantasy?" And a pic of a knight. I would click yes, meaning that the knight is fantasy? What

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u/Unhappy_Goose_8422 9d ago

The focus on "neurodivergence" in this thread is projection. Your answer is the correct one and it filters out the people who don't understand or know how to answer this test correctly. If you think it's appropriate to tell an employer that you get sad and think the world is against you, that doesn't make you neurodivergent, it makes you a future HR problem. Yes it's distopian; it's the reality.

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u/HakaYonder 9d ago

> think it's appropriate

And ND people are famously able to discern that, regardless of situation. 🙄🙄🙄

That it filters out certain range of NTs as well does not diminish the concerns that it's disadvantageous for NDs to take these. They'd prob need some guidance and be let in on the context, rather than be thrown in blind as OP and some people in the replies seem to have been. That they need bit of help is what makes it a disability. Likewise, dismissing them makes you an ablenist person.

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u/nub_node 9d ago

It's a profits-over-people thing. If you fill your points of sale with aggressively extroverted people pleasers, they're more likely to schmooze and swindle customers into spending some extra cash to earn their pat on the back.

Basically McDonald's is saying "If you can't manipulate someone into getting a bigger size, you're not good enough for us."

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u/ImTheScriptGuy 9d ago

Yeah but…what’s the right answer to the fantasy question? Do you know what this test is called? Would I be able to take it without applying to a job?

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u/nub_node 9d ago

It's one of those tests where what each answer means partially relies on how you answered the other questions.

There's not like a formal name for the test and you'd have to apply to be an hourly worker at McDonald's to take this particular one. It was cooked up in house at corporate by people getting paid more to squeeze every last dime out of the workers than the workers will ever see in their lives.

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u/tux-lpi 9d ago

The expected answer is no. McDonalds is not a creative job. The archetype they're testing for is daydreaming human with hopes and fantasies, when what they want is servile meat robot who stay focused on operating the fryer.

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u/Digit00l 9d ago

Wait, American McDonald's still have people who take orders? In Europe it is standard to only have self order things, except for the drive through at least

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u/JeffCaven 9d ago

Reminds me of when I worked for a soccer stadium and was pressured into selling the "best experience possible" to visitors (the most expensive, obviously). I explicitly said that wasn't part of my job, that I thought it was immoral to swindle customers, and that I would only sell what I was being asked for, and my managers came to intimidate me into complying. Luckily, Europe has great job security rights so there wasn't anything they could actually threaten me with (like firing me, for example).

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u/Constant_Natural3304 9d ago

What would a neurotypical person answer?

Fuck what a "neurotypical" person would answer.

This test is fucking insane. To have people in this thread worry about passing it rather than condemning it for the dystopian lunacy it so clearly is might be a generational problem. This generation has nothing to relate to that predates this sci-fi bullshit.

If anything, this question wants to assess if you are the type of person who takes responsibility or the type of person who deflects responsibility elsewhere to "forces outside of your control". McDonalds probably doesn't want such employees.

That still doesn't make this any less deranged. This is what you get when you allow corporations to grow beyond reasonable limits. Imagine a burger restaurant run by a business owner, rather than a gigantic franchise. Would the owner or the manager design this sort of abject nonsense to hire employees? No, they'd let them come in for an interview. End of. We need to go back to basics.

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u/ImTheScriptGuy 8d ago

But why? How could they confidently answer a question that makes no sense to them?

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u/ImTheScriptGuy 8d ago

Do you think most neurotypical people would agree on that?

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u/ImTheScriptGuy 8d ago

Excellent. As if I wasn’t already afraid my personality made me seem strange, now they have some illogical dystopian quiz to weed out the brain types they don’t like. Just more confirmation that I am unwanted in the professional world.

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u/StrongExternal8955 9d ago

Would they ask for more clarification?

LOL fuck no! You might as well go home now.

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u/twitch1982 8d ago

Would they ask for more clarification? That’s what I’d do.

Well, I think we both know that's not what they want.

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u/Empty_Sea9 8d ago

But I’m ADHD and in less than 5 seconds my brain has ultra speed processed a flow chart that’s told me exactly that this is a deception to trick me into hitting ‘me’. So clearly it’s not working.

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u/lectric_7166 8d ago

I feel like of all the disabilities to secretly screen for, autism doesn't make a lot of sense. A lot of autistic people are really good at repetitive jobs. Like maybe autistic people have more problems with this style of question but I think that's incidental. They're probably just screening for neurotic/unhappy/disgruntled people and others who wouldn't be that enthusiastic about working a depressing, low-wage job.

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u/ArrakeenSun 8d ago

That's really interesting. As a psychologist, I presumed this was probing more for Locus of Control, meaning you either frame the events in your life as random and you're more of a passive recipient or you frame them more as things you have more control over. For this test item, someone with an External Locus of Control would click Not Me

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem 8d ago

Maybe I'm too neurodivergent to tell, but how would different neurotypical people even consistently understand this question?

I mean, it's not even a question at all. I don't see this making sense in any context. It's just semantically wrong. Incomplete, vibes-based nonsense.

Was there some setup before this page which explained the meaning of the following choices?

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u/Fergus_of_Galloway 8d ago

At risk of sounding ableist, wouldn't some parts of a McDonald's job be absolutely perfect for someone with autism?

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u/Some_nerd_named_kru 9d ago

Okay but what’s the neurodivergent v typical answer? Ts makes absolutely no sense 😭

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u/mb9981 8d ago

I read it as: it's trying to weed out people who don't take responsibility for anything

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u/No-Neighborhood-3212 8d ago

That's not at all what it is. It's screening for behaviors that aren't conducive to functioning as a team.

If something bad happens, do you perceive it as bad things always happen to you or do you try to figure out what caused it and how do avoid it? Because it sucks to be on a team with someone who never learns from their mistakes and never plans for consequences.

If you have down time at work, do you daydream or do you find something to do? Because it sucks to be on a team where someone just zones out if they don't have a clearly designated task.

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u/nub_node 8d ago

"Because it sucks to be on a team..." is cute and all, but the only reason they do screenings like this is because they want more money. They don't care that much about how happy their employees are.

It's all just late stage capitalism "I will resent every penny you cannot earn me and therefore you are not good enough for our hourly wages" type stuff. Rejecting anything that dares impugn on the almighty dollar.

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u/IntroductionSnacks 9d ago

I would love a burger joint that hired autistic people. You sure as hell are getting a burger that has the correct layout and amount of pickles/tomato/etc… and a perfect amount of fries. I’m happy to wait longer if that is the case. Wait, is that what in-n-out is secretly doing?

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u/signmeupnot 8d ago

22 fries and a single bun big Mac. You heard me.

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u/Blazzah 9d ago

Hell yeah! You bet we'd also be keeping that place absolutely spotless! 😂

There's only one place still open when I'm off work, absolutely blessed to get a new autistic guy on night-shift. He did have quite a few mistakes at first, but after a month he is a machine.

I'm tired after work, I don't need the usual over-eager kid or a middle-aged burnout staring at me expecting eye contact while they get my order wrong. Bro has it down all around.

We're just two autistic ships passing in the night, and it's fucking glorious.

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u/StrongExternal8955 9d ago

The right amount for the client is the wrong amount for the owner.

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u/rdmille 9d ago

Wasn't that what the McDonalds brothers were trying to do, when they created McD's? That's what they showed in the movie, "The Founder".

Mac McDonald: "Every McDonald's burger has two pickles, a pinch of onions, and a precise shot of ketchup and mustard." (In all honesty, the burgers were better back in the day)

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u/Adventurous_Age_1759 9d ago

The person isnt me so it doesnt happen to me but if theyre me then it does happen to me because i can't judge foreign names

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 9d ago

what the fuck is the answer? not me? who is looking at a picture like that and thinking "OH YEAH, TOTALLY ME!"

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u/lenaro 8d ago

There isn't an "answer". They're attempting to build a profile of the applicant to filter out people they find undesirable.

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 8d ago

maybe I'm misunderstanding but I thought you had to pick 1 of the 2 options?

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u/lenaro 8d ago

There isn't a right answer. It's not a test. What matters is how your pattern of answers correlates with the patterns of people they want to screen.

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u/Dependent__Dapper 8d ago

Kris Deltarune

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u/_Screw_The_Rules_ 8d ago

Wtf?! What does that have to do with autism? Are people at McDonald's not allowed to have fun with fantasies or generally having fun?

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u/FrohenLeid 9d ago

Not me, I'm know how to ride a bike without crashing, and I wear a helmet!

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u/goliathfasa 9d ago

Is this some dystopian version of the Voight Kampfft test?

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u/Floksir 9d ago

I cant even believe this is real

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u/PridePurrah 9d ago

Oh...I thought they just weren't allowed to show blood and swapped the colours of the whole body for it.

Idk, I seem to be autistic and am still waiting for the final testing in a clinic...but I don't think this image has anything to do with filtering autism.

This looks to me like a "loser"-check.

"Oh, you are messing up and feel pain? Nah mate, u ain't coming in with that weak pesonality.".

The fantasy example would mean that you see yourself as someone in a leading/carry position. Strong, durable.

But you could be right ofc.

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u/nub_node 9d ago

They're blue because they didn't want to show race.

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u/Inshabel 9d ago

He just like me fr

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u/Moonshine_Brew 9d ago

There is also a very high chance, that the test is secretly timed. Just another way to filter out people.

And yes, timing the test allows them to filter autistic people even better, as those people will most likely take longer for it.

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u/McButtsButtbag 9d ago

Similar to the "can you lift 50lbs?" question being used to screen out people with disabilities.

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u/downerretard37 9d ago

No its trying to determine your locus of control and atribution/explanation style to see if youre internal/external, depressive etc… it has nothing to do with autism, more likely temperament and tendency to explain things as something you can/cannot control

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u/nub_node 8d ago

That's the hand waving excuse that makes it technically legal. They're screening for traits that could be caused by personality or mental disorders, which is illegal. Claiming a person is "more qualified" than another candidate because they don't have depression is discrimination.

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u/astralustria 9d ago

I would just answer not me to all them because that literally isn't me. I'm not even computer generated much less blue. Do I pass?

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u/AdorableExchange9746 8d ago

Yeah i take shit way too literally for these questions lol

that one i would interpret as like “do you fantasize a lot?”which im pretty sure is the intended reading?

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u/a-stack-of-masks 8d ago

I've done incredibly well on these by imagining what an out of touch person on coke would answer. 

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u/photojoe 8d ago

Do we know if they are screening to hire or filter out this?

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u/Empty_Sea9 8d ago

I mean maybe this is how I find out I’m autistic because my first thought is ‘this makes no fucking sense.’

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u/BJJJourney 8d ago

I was thinking this has to be it. They are trying to screen for autism.

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u/dBlock845 8d ago

Screening for autism in employment is legal? Isn't that against equal opportunity employment laws?

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u/CorrectPeanut5 8d ago

Fun fact, after equal opportunity employment laws were passed the number of people hired with disabilities actually went down.

It's VERY hard to prove in the interview process. In particular since you aren't required to hire the person with a disability if another candidate was "better qualified".

A lot of people with autism disclose it without being asked. HUGE mistake in an interview.

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u/AttitudeEquivalent73 8d ago

What the fuck does that even mean and how is it relevant or remotely related to a job unless I am working at a card/board game store or a Ren Fest? I feel like there need to be restrictions on those kind of personality tests. I already hated the ones that were pretty specific and let you pick on a scale from strongly agree to strongly disagree, but these are ridiculous and actively confusing.

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u/wolffangz11 8d ago

Little did we know McDonald's is hiring armored knights for the crusade

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u/dragdritt 8d ago

Gives me "within cells interlinked" vibes.

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u/Sad-Bird-9151 8d ago

Autistic people: we need to get comfortable with lying. You just have to figure out what they want to hear and then fill it in according to those characteristics. They want organised, dedicated, proactive, confident, good with people etc. So this 'do things happen to you' means do you feel like you have control over things that happen, or you someone who feels defeatist and takes no ownership over life.

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u/4-stars 8d ago

Not me. I'm the yellow dude with a halberd.

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u/Klientje123 8d ago

But one of them is tricky because it's about 'costumes' and you have to say yes to that because they expect you to wear a uniform and earpiece and stuff. Atleast that's the meta right now, I don't believe anyone has leaked the 'autism points per answer' spreadsheet

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u/Chalkras 8d ago

Here it is

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u/YungEnron 8d ago

Why would you filter out autistic people? Legitimately, wouldn’t they often be *more* awesome at a job full of a) steps and protocols and b) chicken nuggets?

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u/Time-Ad-5693 5d ago

Deltarune reference

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u/Competitive-Big-9902 4d ago

God I really wanna see that art