The "If this question is too difficult for you then we don't want you working for us." question.

[hoveringsombrero]

If an experienced housekeeper can clean 16 rooms in 8 hours and an inexperienced housekeeper can clean half as much, how many rooms can the inexperienced housekeeper clean in 6 hours?

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[coldcontrol.livejournal.com]

Was this a real question? Because um, wow.

[eris.livejournal.com]

It was at the end of the second page of a four page quiz full of silly personality questions. I totally did the OMGMATHS glaze for a second, then re-read it and realised how ridiculously simple it was. It was also multiple choice and the four options were, 6, 16, 18, and 4.

I can't imagine that it had any other purpose than to weed out the stupids.

It's been a while!!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, love!

I thought I would check back in with you after all these years!

My.God.

I am soooooo sorry to learn that you lost your Mexican. It's been one big downward spiral, hasn't it? You convey the squalor of your life very well. It's palpable.

All in all: An interesting read.

See you in another six years. Don't forget to dance, love!

GigglesImpersonator
(no LJ account) :-.)

Re: It's been a while!!!!!

[eris.livejournal.com]

Uh, whomever you are, you appear to have confused me with someone else. I am not currently experiencing any such things as "squalor" or a "downward spiral". As to mexicans, I regularly associate with four of the half-breed variety, and I don't think any of them have gotten lost while I wasn't looking. Unless the one asleep in his bed in the next room has wandered off without me knowing.

[eris.livejournal.com]

It was 1 in 40 of such questions as "do you enjoy working in a group or alone?" and "Do you get frustrated when things don't go your way?"

[coldcontrol.livejournal.com]

I dearly hope the answers were write-in and not multiple choice.

"I only get frustrated when working with cockbite crazies that deserve to be stabbed eighteen times on their way to the parking lot. Also, pickles."

heh ...

[btripp.livejournal.com]

The ones I try to avoid ask me about The Voices.

Or, maybe it's just The Voices asking me about that and those questions aren't really on the test at all ... question #43 of 40 ...


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