#etta rants

so I applied for this job and when the responded it wasn’t with a “sorry you got rejected” or “hi you’ve moved onto the next round, go to this link to set up an interview time” but it was “take this personality quiz so we can see if you’re a good fit for our company.”

and I go “whack, but ok....” and start up the system. They frame it as a “game” to make it fun and engaging and low-stress (or some such nonsense), and the setup was that they show you two stock photos of people doing professional looking stuff with the captions “I am more like...” and then you have to pick one of the two.

but the pictures were so weird???????????????

Like, if they show you someone with a disorganized vs organized desk, OBVIOUSLY you’re going to pick the organized one because you want this job, right???? Or someone sleeping on the couch vs running. You’re going to pick running because you’re motivated and ambitious or whatever it is they’re looking for.

Some of them didn’t have anything to do with each other. It would be somebody doing community service vs the runner and I’m guessing they wanted to see which one you value more, but also why can’t it be both?

and it was timed, so now I’m both overthinking and rushing in a panic. Results of course were “you don’t get stressed easily” well yeah no kidding I clicked all the pictures of the people calmly doing work and not the stock photo result for “frantic”.

and at the end it said “We worked with a team of 10 psychologists to develop the games you completed to discover the unique competencies you possess.” and “ Our team of experts develops scientifically validated assessments that evaluate skills needed for the job and help reduce bias. We evaluated your gameplay to assess how you interact with and process information.”

like??? NO?? my zodiac would be more accurate!

look. conservative rural republicans care about climate change just as much if not more than you do. We’re the ones who live places where the only grocery store within 10 miles is a Walmart, and we’re the ones who run the farmers markets and food co-ops. We’re the ones who actually know agriculture and animal care, as opposed to legislators who are trying to do what sounds idealistic. We’re the ones who take a week to get power back every time there’s a storm because our roads get serviced last. We’re not stupid. and you’re being condescending assholes with the way you talk. 

I appreciate your passion, I really do. You want to save the world and you have such an idealistic and desperate view of these very real issues. I see your anxiety and I empathise with that. But if your policies of high-taxation, and high-subsidies are going to put small businesses 6-feet under and destroy the fracking/truck driving/nuclear/etc. jobs that these people rely on, you are never going to get buy in.

reality is the wrong genre A cyberpunk dystopia

You spent too long being cynical You thought uni would be the pinnacle Of creative thinking but no You’re still thirteen And you’re tired and you’re mean You don’t want to be this person

You need to be kind but you Run Because you ran out of polite things to say And you’re living in yesterday

The world ended after you had the first taste of the sky And no person in charge has a good reason why

Desperate time sensitive questions about the midterms. I never asked for help after that. Got a C in OChem after teaching myself the entire class from the textbook.

Desperate time sensitive questions about the final, leading me to guess wildly on a test worth 50% of my grade

Asking why my midterm wasn't graded until finals week and why there was no answer key available to study

THREE researchers I have approached about lab work ignoring me after genuinely expressing interest in my help

say it with me: (under read more for those that don't want to hear about it anymore)

I had not known that becoming unreasonably paranoid was one of the things that happen.