A Job-Seeker's Employer Intelligence Test

[This post creeps me out. It has about it an air of petty self-righteousness that don't think I should stoop to. And yet, it's fair. If the business-owning class can subject employment applicants to an examination of their competence and character, then surely the applicants ought to be entitled to do the same to the business owners.]

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As an applicant for employment, one has every right to investigate the intelligence and conscientiousness of the people one might end up working for. My own experience with this is limited to employment as a computer/business-machines service technician, so here's an intelligence test that any applicant for such work should feel at liberty to administer during the course of his or her interview. (I'm sure that similar fundamental tests could easily be devised for other fields.)

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If you'll be working, if hired, in a repair shop, ask the interviewer if you could see the shop's drill index. At the very least, the interviewer should be able to produce something like this:

An index with a full complement of sharp, serviceable drills, so that if a hole needs to be drilled in order to effect a repair, the wherewithal to do that is at hand. It's not too much to ask of a supposedly 'professional' operation.

If the interviewer doesn't know what a 'drill index' is, and/or can't produce one, the interviewee is well-advised to terminate the interview and leave -- an outfit that's allegedly a 'repair shop', but can't drill a hole, is a good place to be clear of.

If the interviewer presents something like this --

then the interviewee ought to say, "Sorry. This outfit is demonstrably way too bleeping stupid for me to waste my time on. There's a nice clue boutique at the mall. Why don't you go visit it and get one?"

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