We have to fill out a questionnaire at work. It is to ascertain our emotional tenacity in an office setting.
Everyone checks the option which is the most ideal. That is because the alternatives are so obviously tending towards assigning a score, that anyone cans see through them.
For a hypothetical situation wherein a superior yells at you and insults you in public, the chances of people marking the alternative “I will burst into tears in front of everyone because I am extremely sensitive” are low even if they are in fact perpetually on the verge of tears. Nobody is that honest. Or that naïve.
So naturally, everyone marks “I will take it in my stride and accept it in a mature fashion.”
A lot of the questions have these unrealistic alternatives that are packed away in water tight compartments. After answering about 4 questions, it becomes clear that if you mark “A” you will get the highest possible emotional tenacity score.
That’s exactly what happens. They hand out chocolates and fruit punch as prizes for being the most “emotionally competent” workplace. Everyone laughs and takes the little score cards handed out. After a day or two, the cards are used to scoop out dirt from the spaces in between the laptop keys.
Everyone checks the option which is the most ideal. That is because the alternatives are so obviously tending towards assigning a score, that anyone cans see through them.
For a hypothetical situation wherein a superior yells at you and insults you in public, the chances of people marking the alternative “I will burst into tears in front of everyone because I am extremely sensitive” are low even if they are in fact perpetually on the verge of tears. Nobody is that honest. Or that naïve.
So naturally, everyone marks “I will take it in my stride and accept it in a mature fashion.”
A lot of the questions have these unrealistic alternatives that are packed away in water tight compartments. After answering about 4 questions, it becomes clear that if you mark “A” you will get the highest possible emotional tenacity score.
That’s exactly what happens. They hand out chocolates and fruit punch as prizes for being the most “emotionally competent” workplace. Everyone laughs and takes the little score cards handed out. After a day or two, the cards are used to scoop out dirt from the spaces in between the laptop keys.
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