Monday, September 28, 2009

Testinz brakes mai hartz

So, my employer (for the current timeframe) has mandatory evaluations for all us new folks. Those who don't pass, get another couple of retries, which is generally enough to filter out the worst from the absolutely worst; and then the absolutely worst get thrown out.
Because of a buggy software that evaulates our tests, most of us find ourselves failing. The first time it happened, mass comic hysteria ensued. But the second time around, there was a deep silence. Slowly, things healed, and took the form of a mass agitation. But in that hour of silence, things pulsed in an intangible blob: of emotions and tempers; faces white with horror and tounges ready to tear through anything said lightly, threatening eyes.

But they don't get it, do they? Nobody's at loss here - being in the majority equates to being in power, and able to voice dissent; being in minority means being safe anyways. Moreover, the failure isn't supposed to be taken as a realisation to anything. What's to take from it...nothing. Just leave back blank, or surprised; then go and play Ping Pong or fatten up on [much-needed] sugary foods. Recall all those 'failures are stepping stone to success' quotes again.


This explains a physical detail of those lacking failure-handling-mechanisms, a defect more common to the female species, as has been emperically found.

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