Psychometric Fiction

1 = Strongly Disagree

2 = Disagree

3 = In-between

4 = Agree

5 = Strongly Agree

 

I try to avoid work which is not essential

1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

It’s impossible to be warm towards everyone you meet
1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

I turn up for work when others wouldn’t bother
1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

It is best to do what you are paid for and nothing more
1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

I am happiest when I have nothing to do
1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

I cannot be cheerful all the time
1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

There are some days when I just can’t face going to work
1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

I sometimes find it hard to keep smiling
1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

I sometimes tell lies if I think it is necessary
1 ☐         2 ☐         3 ☐         4 ☐         5 ☐

Dear recruitment agent

Do you remember when I registered with you? That bright smiling day in your office when you admired my CV and promised that ongoing full-time warehouse work was just around the corner? As we completed the paperwork we were full of hopes about our future together. And later, after a single day's work which you assured me was only an interim measure, I even gave you my P45.

Yet now over a month has passed and still this ongoing work has not materialised. I phone and you say you'll call back soon with definite news, but I hear nothing. Then, when you finally do ring, it is to offer a one-off nightshift in a supermarket... And when I give my reasons for not accepting this you seem disappointed, as if I am the one at fault, and say that you'll "get someone else..."

How did it come to this? Was our relationship doomed from the start? Was I wrong to trust you? etc.