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sangie595

Livelongandprosper wrote: »

When I started work, it wasn't unusual for pretty, young , innocent new starters to be sexually harassed as well as having to deal with everything else. It was wrong, but that was the culture back in the 70's. I'm sure there are many female contributors to this forum who can say they had to deal with sexual harassment from those days

Thankfully that's all legislated against. Not to say it still doesn't happen, but it's not as common place as it once was

Ah. The good old days....!

But, to be fair, those were the days when a swift smack in the mouth or knee to the balls was accepted as a form of grievance it was certainly a more direct method of saying "don't do that again" than four months stuck in grievance meetings with the jerk!

daytona0

marliepanda wrote: »

I failed the Tesco aptitude online test about 13 years ago for a Saturday job

God I feel old now!!

Oh dear

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

marliepanda wrote: »

I failed the Tesco aptitude online test about 13 years ago for a Saturday job

"We don't think you are suited to working at Tesco".

"Thank you! That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me!"

marliepanda

daytona0 wrote: »

Oh dear

I think I was too honest.

If a customer was being a pita, what would you do....

To add insult to injury, my brother passed and got a trial shift

iammumtoone

marliepanda wrote: »

I failed the Tesco aptitude online test about 13 years ago for a Saturday job

God I feel old now!!

I done one before for a supermarket (can't remember which one) there was no note section to tell them how c!rap their questions were :rotfl:

Went something along the lines

You see a shopper in a wheelchair what do you do?
A) nothing carry on working
go over and start to help with their shopping.

I answered B but thought the question was worded very badly, no option to actually ask the customer if they wanted help or not :mad: It would be very discriminating for someone to just come and help when the person didn't want/require it!

I'll never know if I got the right answer, I wondered if it was A and to leave it to the person to ask if they wanted.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

iammumtoone wrote: »

I done one before for a supermarket (can't remember which one) there was no note section to tell them how c!rap their questions were :rotfl:

Went something along the lines

You see a shopper in a wheelchair what do you do?
A) nothing carry on working
go over and start to help with their shopping.

I answered B but thought the question was worded very badly, no option to actually ask the customer if they wanted help or not :mad: It would be very discriminating for someone to just come and help when the person didn't want/require it!

I'll never know if I got the right answer, I wondered if it was A and to leave it to the person to ask if they wanted.

I'm pretty sure the required answer was A. Even if there is the option of "ask if they wanted help", people in wheelchairs don't want to be asked if they need help when they are just going about their business. You should only ask if they need help if they appear to be struggling with something.

iammumtoone

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the required answer was A. Even if there is the option of "ask if they wanted help", people in wheelchairs don't want to be asked if they need help when they are just going about their business. You should only ask if they need help if they appear to be struggling with something.

Yes this is true, hence why my hesitation when I originally answered the question, in fact I even checked with a friend who worked at a supermarket and they told me 'B'!

they said I was overthinking it and that as a supermarket employee my job was to be helpful to customers, they had a point so I went with that, but as said I have often wondered.

CakeCrusader

iammumtoone wrote: »

I done one before for a supermarket (can't remember which one) there was no note section to tell them how c!rap their questions were :rotfl:

Went something along the lines

You see a shopper in a wheelchair what do you do?
A) nothing carry on working
go over and start to help with their shopping.

I answered B but thought the question was worded very badly, no option to actually ask the customer if they wanted help or not :mad: It would be very discriminating for someone to just come and help when the person didn't want/require it!

I'll never know if I got the right answer, I wondered if it was A and to leave it to the person to ask if they wanted.

You have to match your replies to the Supermarket. B's definitely Waitrose, A's Aldi

Malthusian

iammumtoone wrote: »

Yes this is true, hence why my hesitation when I originally answered the question, in fact I even checked with a friend who worked at a supermarket and they told me 'B'!

Unless they devised the test or were in charge of recruitment you don't know that they were right. They may have got it wrong, but got the job anyway because they were a good candidate and got enough other questions right.

Ideally, there should be a series of questions like this. If someone answers all As they are probably too unhelpful. If someone answers all Bs they are too impulsive and easily distracted. A good candidate would have some As and some Bs showing they are at least thinking about what they should do, whether or not the answers are 100% "right". But that may be overthinking it and maybe Tesco just want you to answer all "B"s.

Silvertabby

“ When I started work, it wasn't unusual for pretty, young , innocent new starters to be sexually harassed as well as having to deal with everything else. It was wrong, but that was the culture back in the 70's. I'm sure there are many female contributors to this forum who can say they had to deal with sexual harassment from those days

Thankfully that's all legislated against. Not to say it still doesn't happen, but it's not as common place as it once was
Originally posted by Livelongandprosper ”
Ah. The good old days....!

But, to be fair, those were the days when a swift smack in the mouth or knee to the balls was accepted as a form of grievance it was certainly a more direct method of saying "don't do that again" than four months stuck in grievance meetings with the jerk! Posted by Sangie595

Indeed! you certainly needed a good sense of humour and a very thick skin to be a female in the Armed Forces in the 1970s! I never actually had to deploy the 'knees in the balls' option, but came close to it more than once.