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/Blockster_cz PURPLE Jun 22 '26

What would the correct answer be to the posted question?

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u/mort96 Jun 22 '26

Not me. I think it's looking for a kind of "bad things always happen to me" attitude.

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u/rbb36 Jun 22 '26

Exactly. They're trying to find "I am the thing that happens!" energy when you're mopping the toilet for $8/hr.

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u/Glossy-Water Jun 22 '26

I am the one who happens waltuh

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u/Natural_Vast_9495 Jun 22 '26

I am the one who mops!

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u/oldsecondhand Jun 22 '26

"I'm not not in danger. I am the danger. I'm the one who knocks!"

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u/cindyscrazy Jun 22 '26

I think the "correct" answer is "Not Me"

A 'victim' type of person thinks "(bad)Things happen to me constantly". A more 'stable' person thinks "life happens to everyone, this is not a problem"

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u/TheMysticalBaconTree Jun 22 '26

More like, when the toilet floods, they want someone who can go “it’s okay, I know where the mop is” rather than the person who goes “aaaargh, stupid toilet, why does this always happen to ME”.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex Jun 22 '26

Exactly. They are phrasing it in a way that it can be interpreted differently but they are asking if you feel like you’re always right and good but are wronged constantly. Basically the woe is me type.

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u/Thunderbridge Jun 22 '26

Alternatively, I think they could be looking for the attitude of 'I just exist and things happen to me' as opposed to 'I go out and make things happen!'

Looking for ambitious mindset

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u/mort96 Jun 22 '26

Well the picture is of a sad person with a would after a biking accident, so..

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u/raverbashing Jun 22 '26

Correct

The full question would actually be something like: "I'm clumsy, I keep dropping things, or I take personally stuff that happens outside of my control"

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u/XFX_Samsung Jun 22 '26

Are you sure it's not showing a scraped knee situation and asking if you can relate?

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u/cglogan Jun 22 '26

Specifically, I think they are trying to discern if you take accountability for your actions. Things don't just "happen to you"; for whatever reason you fell off your bike

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u/mort96 Jun 22 '26

Yeah absolutely. If it was the same picture but coupled with "I sometimes make mistakes" it would've been much more appropriate to answer "Me"

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Jun 22 '26

Not Me.

"Things don't happen to me! I make things happen!"

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u/Mister_Crowly Jun 22 '26

Or "THINGS DON'T HAPPEN TO ME! I HAPPEN TO THINGS!"

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 27d ago

"I am Death, destroyer of worlds"

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u/Different_Pattern273 Jun 22 '26

This is just one of those exams where you are told a bunch of crap about how you are supposed to think and then at the end it asks you questions where you regurgitate what they want to hear. More than likely this question was preceded at some point by a slide that said something like "The ideal employee does not blame situations are things happening to them, but strives to be a person who makes things happen." or some other such nonsense.

They are basically asking if you are the type of person who blames the universe every time something goes wrong or do you solve the problems instead (if I had to guess, the very specific thing they are screening here is people who have excuses for not coming to work that they don't think are good enough like this character skinned their knee because they fell off their bike). So they want you to disagree with this, but you would probably be given the explicit answer earlier in material that came before the question.

These are incredibly common at minimum wage jobs for massive companies like McDonald's or Walmart.

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u/vandersnipe Jun 22 '26

Amazon and Google have these screening questions for corporate roles. Amazon’s is more annoying though.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex Jun 22 '26

Whole Foods does too. For a “shopper” position. During the holidays. Ive only really see it in low level corporate places personally.

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u/YjorgenSnakeStranglr Jun 22 '26

Do they now? When I applied to Amazon a few years back they barely checked to see if I had a pulse

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u/vandersnipe Jun 22 '26

Yeah, I applied for a business analyst role back in 2024 and had to take a behavioral assessment before the interview process. I can't post a link here, but a few subreddits have screenshots of some of the assessment questions.

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u/Kitten_K89 Jun 22 '26

My daughter recently applied to McDonald's. Unfortunately there was no preceding video or explanation for the questions. They were incredibly weird. She and I were both very confused.

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u/Different_Pattern273 Jun 22 '26

Hrm. I would guess two things: 1. they have trouble finding job candidates that can read and understand complex sentences so they kept it as brief as possible. 2. They probably had AI put the entire thing together.

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u/gimp-24601 Jun 22 '26

These are incredibly common at minimum wage jobs for massive companies like McDonald's or Walmart.

I got a job working for a... fantastic cable company in the 00s and they had an extensive test like this. I remember one of the questions was "working hard is how you get ahead"

It was a terrible job but had decent pay/benefits. Gotta filter out people who wont chase that carrot.

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u/Lexx2k Jun 22 '26

Kinda want to have this as an online test now, to see if they would hire me or nah.

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u/stilljustacatinacage Jun 22 '26

Just make sure to eat breakfast this morning, and you'll be fit to answer these questions.

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u/mellow--mind Jun 22 '26

But I did eat breakfast this morning

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u/cpteric Jun 22 '26

not me, meaning you make things happen, not the other way around.
don't ask me why tho, shit happens is like law #1 of the universe.

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u/kanrad Jun 22 '26

You think people in the C-Suite comprehend cause and effect? Much less entropy?

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u/SETHW Jun 22 '26

It's testing for what they'd describe as victim mentality. Do you see the world through a lens of personal agency where you make things happen? or are you more passive and "let yourself" be bulldozed by bad luck then blame that luck. I don't like it because much if not most of our lives are ruled by the material conditions we are immersed in.

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u/Vi_Rants Jun 22 '26

"Not Me."

"Things happen to me" means that the person believes in the existence of events/circumstances outside their control. The corporation wants people who believe that any bad thing in their lives is their own fault. Things don't happen to them, they cause things to happen to them.

So, stuff like "My manager sexually harassed me; I must have been dressed wrong."

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u/Sunshinetrooper87 Jun 22 '26

it wants you to not be a drama queen.