If that's your take you are not smart enough for the job. The workplace dodged a bullet.
No one cares about a persons 'sense of karmic justice' or things people make up in their heads to be clever, they are answering questions on a test.
If their IQ can't adapt to a simple question, how could they flip a burger? Their 'sense of karmic justice' or being clever might get in the way, and since they have no idea of reality they won't know what the job requires.
The pride people take in getting IQ tests wrong is quite perplexing.
Off Topic since answering basic questions is too hard for HN, but the "tripwire questions" are also/only? to open the employee to the idea of taking money, the next question might be taking $1 from the till.
Have you "thought about suicide" is to desensitize you to the real questions. If you think it's a dumb question then they have fooled you.
The manager was using the question in an attempt to determine whether someone was a liar, not a quiz on workplace protocol.
A well-developed code of personal ethics might not matter in the context of burger-flipping, but jobs requiring a high IQ usually also require someone to have principles.
No one cares about a persons 'sense of karmic justice' or things people make up in their heads to be clever, they are answering questions on a test.
If their IQ can't adapt to a simple question, how could they flip a burger? Their 'sense of karmic justice' or being clever might get in the way, and since they have no idea of reality they won't know what the job requires.
The pride people take in getting IQ tests wrong is quite perplexing.
Off Topic since answering basic questions is too hard for HN, but the "tripwire questions" are also/only? to open the employee to the idea of taking money, the next question might be taking $1 from the till.
Have you "thought about suicide" is to desensitize you to the real questions. If you think it's a dumb question then they have fooled you.