uncongenial
October 01, 2014

The ever-worsening atmosphere at work is getting me down again. They are throwing the switch on the newly-installed turnstiles tonight, and I find that pretty depressing.

But there is another thing bugging me. I found out recently that a co-worker with 35 years under her belt just had to take a personality test. For the position that she's held for ten of those years.

That is freaking disturbing. I've had to take them to get hired--good old Wally-World was a pioneer in that, and I remember sitting in the snack bar, rigging a cheap rip-off of the Meyer-Briggs test, in order to get that job back in 1989.

But to throw one at a veteran employee, who isn't even changing positions? I can't really come up with a positive spin on why they would want to do that. Oh, I know how they are choosing to frame it. They have slightly re-organized the area where she works, and they hired a new department head from outside the company, and this is "just to enable her to know her staff better".

Yeah, right. So she can figure out who she can get along with, and figure out the best way to bug the ones she CAN'T get along with until they quit.