'I just roll my eyes and mark whatever answers make me look good': Bartending job requires insane logic test in online application

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Feb 26, 2024 3:00 PM EST

Ever since AI has become widespread, the job market is even crazier than it once was. Remember the good old days when you could rock up to your local watering hole, say "Joe, I've fallen on hard times. I need a job," and then Joe would say "'Course, buddy. You're a dear friend of the community and a staple at this here bar. Pick up a rag, buddy. Can I pay you in cash?" And boom. Employment sorted. Okay, this may be my imagination of a sort of Wild West that likely didn't exist, but you get my point. 

Job searches used to be analog. Showing up was the most important part. Especially for service industry jobs at restaurants and bars. Now, the world of recruiting is a terrible one. Even the most entry-level jobs require prostrating to the higher powers of tech. Like in this recent example from Reddit that'll really turn you into an old man shouting at the clouds. 

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    r/antiwork u/alaaaaanna • 20h Application questions for bartending
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    What motivates you to seek this job? 1. I need to pay bills. 2. 3. 4. I will find the work engaging. I want to have positive impact on others. 7. It is important to me to achieve my goals. 5. It is my calling in life. 6. This job feels like my niche in life. I was meant to work in this job. 28% Disagree Strongly DO D
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    Question 4 of 7 Determine the next logical shape to complete the series. 73% Copyright © Optimize Hire, LLC. Time Left: 03:28 PREVIOUS NEXT
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    ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX Question 7 of 7 80% Please enter a number in response to the following question. A new company is hiring employees rapidly. Every day, the number of employees doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the company to be at fu many days would it take for the company to be at half capacity? Time Lef Copyright © Optimize Hire, LLC. PREVI
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    I recently quit my science job of 9 years because the private company sold to a corporation...was looking for an easy way to make money while I work on my LLC
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    throwplushie • 20h Just lie enough to where you can get it if you really need this job. It's so stupid how working only for money is looked down upon by these people when that's literally the only reason why work exists.
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    alaaaaanna OP . 20h I definitely used chatGPT to make my resume and cover letter
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    throwplushie • 20h It's also funny to me how this company thinks most people look at bartending as this lifelong dream they've always had a kid enough to put one of those as the questions you need to agree or disagree on.
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    Gaming Gems • 17h Shouldn't the answer to the last question be 47 days? If they double each day and are full at 48 days then it was half at 47 right? I dunno I always get tricked on these.
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    STWALMO . 16h Well, if there is 1 person applying the first day, and it doubles every day, by day 48 there's well over 100 quadrillion people... But yes, if it doubles every day then half would be the penultimate day.
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    throwtheclownaway20 · 12h At this point, I just roll my eyes and mark whatever answers make me look like a good little wage slave since I know that's what these narcissistic wanna hear. They'll find out 91+ days later that I'm a leftist unionizer.
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    THE gtricomi. 19h Bro, what in the ...?
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    alaaaaanna OP • 18h ● Agreed. This is a very rural area- no colleges. Mainly hiring high school graduates or older retiree folk
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    communeswiththenight. 20h That's so dumb. CAN U POR DRINK
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    alaaaaanna OP • 20h It made me so mad I don't even want the job anymore lol
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    phaedrusinexile. 19h The shape thing is the 2nd one, right, the smallest circle doesn't move another does a box bounce, yellow does a triangle bounce and the other small is doing a short roll around clockwise. Or did I look at something wrong.
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    alaaaaanna OP • 18h I quit caring- they had 5 of them in a row in addition to the word questions with a 5 minute timer...I haven't applied to a job in nearly a decade but this ain't it for me
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    DonnyDubs69420 - 16h I wanna know what company's full capacity is 281,474,976,710,656 employees
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