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8 years 5 months ago - 8 years 5 months ago #1 by lighttech
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    • I am going through the interview process yet again for a new or newer job?

    And they send me a link for one of those ---take this to see if you're nuts tests---well I have to take it and I am sure to fail!

    I work IN Hollywood! you have to be NUTS! to do that!

    And ! on top of that, I work with high voltage too! My job generally starts where the regular "so called' electricians (lamp guys) stop 'aka switch flippers' IMO! LOL
    I work on the power they use....while HOT and at 10 times the level---then add outside and the rain! tooo----I am SO nuts!


    just saying----logic people!
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    8 years 5 months ago #2 by Kristin Darken
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    • I love to take those corporate psychology tests.

    Our theatre recently added an HR person whose experience is mostly (clearly) corporate. Some of the stuff in our new employee handbooks ... good for a laugh, to say the least. I doubt there are many businesses that are THAT one size fits all... but trying to shoehorn a theatre company into that shape makes putting the old square peg in a round hole child's play.
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    • well I am done and I find after the test....that response time for the 'rubber' truck is REAL fast!

    and darn if its not hard to type with a crayon in your teeth with one of these jackets on!

    but pegging a person with only 50 questions --really? 500 and a real face time I get! but 50 questions?
    ohh boy someone 'sold' them on BS testing! REAL WELL!
    I bet...this TEST cost bucks to give on a computer!


    and Kristin? I always loved theater history! has anyone ever told you, what the first electrical dimmers were in theater?

    they were 'saltwater!'----seawater filled, Steel barrels, all lined up with a connection at the bottom, then bare copper wrapped around a car rim lowered into it, via a rope and pulley The lower it went, the more 'juice' flowed!

    real safe!
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    • Mmhmm. And before you had gel to color your lighting, they pushed light through dyed water. That was back in the days of burning lime or gas for stage lighting. Modern pyro's safe compared to most of the things the old theatres used.
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    8 years 5 months ago #5 by Arcanist Lupus
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    • No psychology tests for me, but my work does have us take "engagement surveys" to see if we're properly engaged at work. The first one came around during my first week of "you aren't set up to do anything, so quietly read a book while we track down an IT person to install the stuff you need".

    I'm told that you could easily tell from the engagement surveys who had been in the military, because they're the ones who put down 5s for everything because they figured out that low engagement scores mean they make you do stupid activities.
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    • I'm told that you could easily tell from the engagement surveys who had been in the military, because they're the ones who put down 5s for everything because they figured out that low engagement scores mean they make you do stupid activities.


    Military teaches you REALLY fast that if you look busy, people leave you the hell alone. If you look bored, you're doomed.
    8 years 5 months ago #7 by Valentine
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    • JG wrote:

    I'm told that you could easily tell from the engagement surveys who had been in the military, because they're the ones who put down 5s for everything because they figured out that low engagement scores mean they make you do stupid activities.


    Military teaches you REALLY fast that if you look busy, people leave you the hell alone. If you look bored, you're doomed.


    I learned that in High School. I could walk the halls without being asked for a "hall pass" because I always looked like I was doing something for a teacher. When I was in the Army I did the same thing. If you were standing around doing nothing, NCO's would ask you what you were supposed to be doing. If you were walking somewhere, or nowhere, with a purpose no one asked any questions.
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    8 years 5 months ago #8 by Sir Lee
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    • Holding a clipboard (or some other obvious indicator of I'm-in-the-middle-of-something-that-I-was-told-to-do-by-important-people) helps.
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    • Sir Lee wrote: Holding a clipboard (or some other obvious indicator of I'm-in-the-middle-of-something-that-I-was-told-to-do-by-important-people) helps.


    LOL then I'm good, I routinely carry around 3 to 6 clipboards (when not actively working or inside the garage when it rains)
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    • And then there's the 'Where's Mulligan?' Dodge. That's where you wander around asking for someone you know isn't there, like you need them for something.
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