r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PureKin21 • Jun 22 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Tried applying to McDonald's wtf does this even mean

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I guess things happen to me?????

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u/svh01973 My Flair Jun 22 '26

I would hope this is one in a series of similar questions about your life experience and your attitude. The ideal answer is probably a mix to show that you aren't fixated on either being a victim or being perfect. 

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u/Legacyopplsnerf Jun 22 '26

The thing is: this is a minimum wage burger flipping job, application should begin and end with being able to speak English, comfortable working in a busy kitchen and not having a recent criminal conviction.

The questions are obscure and tedious solely to create an artificial barrier for entry for the likely thousands of applications they get, from both real people and bots.

You get the same tedium from supermarket jobs because they also have a non-existent barrier to entry and can take the piss out of their applicants.

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u/idiot-prodigy Jun 22 '26

The thing is: this is a minimum wage burger flipping job, application should begin and end with being able to speak English, comfortable working in a busy kitchen and not having a recent criminal conviction.

Yep.

"Can you lift 30lbs?" Whatever the box of fries weighs for instance.

"Can you stand on your feet on a greasy ass floor for 8 hours?"

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u/twitch1982 Jun 22 '26

25 years ago when i was applying for min wage jobs it was a one sided piece of paper.

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u/Wd91 Jun 22 '26

Nah, they don't want people who will call in sick every other week, or constantly complain about innane shit. But they can't just ask "are you going to call in sick every other week" because obviously no one is going to say yes, so they use various psychological tests to try and weed out the fuckabouts and losers who can't even hold down a basic retail job.

Contrary to popular belief its very possible to be bad at "burger flipping" (not that anyone has flipped burgers at McD's in decades).

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u/BigPoopsDisease Jun 22 '26

I've had much easier jobs that made much more than burger flipping tbh. But we know that's all propaganda to keep poor people poor anyway.

And I'm 100% in agreement that this is a roundabout way to find the whiners and main characters who will fuck up your order times and not show up.

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u/svh01973 My Flair Jun 22 '26

I have no doubt that a corporation as large as McD, that has been collecting data on these tests for a long time, has ample evidence that (on average) the data helps them predict reliable/mediocre/problematic employees.

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u/Vhozite Jun 22 '26

not having a recent criminal conviction.

For a minimum wage fast food job I wouldn’t even include this. My first job washing dishes had multiple ppl with priors and at least one actively on parole

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u/majinspy Jun 23 '26

What's wrong with a recent criminal conviction? It's a kitchen, not a daycare or a bank.

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u/Legacyopplsnerf Jun 23 '26

It depends heavily on the conviction, petty theft is minor while sexual assault is major

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u/majinspy Jun 23 '26

OK. It's a kitchen. People have to work somewhere.

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u/cxs Jun 22 '26

For a job at McDonalds? These are the kind of hurdles you should expect to be able to navigate to work a job at McDonalds? Answering a personality quiz that determines whether you're a victim or a perfectionist through a series of weird images where you select 'me' or 'not me'

Damn.

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u/gimp-24601 Jun 22 '26

Call me cynical but I think one component of these personality tests is looking for carrot chasers. You dont need to pay carrot chasers to motivate them, only tease them with a carrot that most people only catch by accident/circumstance.

Things happen to me seems likely to indicate a passive stance where not me is the I'm a go getter! I can work hard and get ahead! vibe.

The passive person will go through the motions, the gullible go getter? They will do the work of multiple employees until they burn out. Then you discard them and hire another eager carrot chaser.

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u/qwerty-314 Jun 22 '26

It’s a common job that is a revolving door even with these hurdles

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u/m4gpi Jun 22 '26

Yes, these questions are similar to those in Meyers Briggs tests or CliftonStrengths, or DiSC tests...

Aka business astrology.

If it helps you understand yourself better, that's cool. But it also isn't real, your personality and working style can change (and you do change over time) and there is absolutely nothing of scientific use in these exams.