Delta Psychological Eval Lawsuit?

SteveC said:
Old friend of mine always said the same, and he included a requirement for a “flat head”. Something to do with having a place to set his beer while getting a .....

<ack! the wife just walked in...disregard!!!>
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Ha! :)
 
Derg said:
There are people that pass the MMPI and those that try to outthink it.
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I seriously wouldn’t be surprised if most people that don’t pass that phase are trying to outthink it. It’s funny what you hear some people doing... Having their wife take it, or being afraid to answer correctly (“Yes, I’m always the life of the party and I absolutely love huge venues in the city!”), when in actuality they absolutely hate that stuff.
 
GypsyPilot said:
I seriously wouldn’t be surprised if most people that don’t pass that phase are trying to outthink it. It’s funny what you hear some people doing... Having their wife take it, or being afraid to answer correctly (“Yes, I’m always the life of the party and I absolutely love huge venues in the city!”), when in actuality they absolutely hate that stuff.
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I mean if you’re taking it in Atlanta I don’t know how you’d smuggle your wife in, but...
 
nibake said:
I prefer short women. Is that bad?
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I don’t make judgements, i don’t care I if you like tall men with club feet, it’s about interview prep. Why do people treat these questions any differently than “ What is the maximum holding speed at xxx altitude ?
 
Old Pete said:
I don’t make judgements, i don’t care I if you like tall men with club feet, it’s about interview prep. Why do people treat these questions any differently than “ What is the maximum holding speed at xxx altitude ?
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Mild sociopathy recommended.
 
What I've learned about these personality surveys is that companies model these to match the traits of their ideal candidate. So company X' ideal candidate can be totally different from Y's ideal candidate. So if a candidate doesn't fit the profile on company X's survey (considering that candidate is giving honest answers) doesn't necessarily mean that that same candidate won't fit the profile on company Y's survey. This works out well for company and candidate honestly. I figure that we all want to work for the company that we fit best with.

I have seen candidates that have done well on the assessment, but truly aren't a match for the job also. They've managed to trick the system. We've all seem these types at our shops before.

A question I have is how much of a profile match do you have to be at the different shops to get the thumbs up?
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Nah, I’d be wildly more “successful.”
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I think that maybe you're confusing some things. I know in my years in the biz, that I've only worked with the worst or the worst and the extreme and the violent. I honestly don't have too much experience with the sociopath next door types.

But sociopath's in general all tend to have fatal flaws. Besides of lack of empathy, they're all nursing some serious insecurities formed from trauma and masking them in a pretty package with a bow on top with charisma, narcissism or other bottomless chasms of faults. Which doesn't always translate to above average intelligence. They just tend to have an incredible ability to sell ice to penguins. But eventually after the bill of sell. The penguin is going to realize that he was sold ice. It's all a façade that they're unable to maintain.

These types are typically hired and lack the ability to keep the façade up long term that they created/presented with in the interview and bring chaos to the organization, before their secret is found out and they're ultimately fired. Or quit before being fired and move onto the next unwitting organization that is duped. But not before unleashing an unquestionable amount of destruction in their wake.

Even high functioning sociopath/psychopaths the likes of Frank Abagnale, like all of the types are self-destructive and heavily ruled by their emotions and are highly impulsive, narcissistic, selfish and pathological in nature. They can't help themselves and they all fall to ruin in some aspect or another.

I think that your worship of nonviolent, average every day sociopaths, even the highly functional types is misplaced. I think that I'd rather have employees or top leadership with genuine intellect and talent. Than those emperor types with no clothes.

YMMV
 
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Maximillian_Jenius said:
I think that maybe you're confusing some things. I know in my years in the biz, that I've only worked with the worst or the worst and the extreme and the violent. I honestly don't have too much experience with the sociopath next door types.

But sociopath's in general all tend to have fatal flaws. Besides of lack of empathy, they're all nursing some serious insecurities and masking them with narcissism or other bottomless chasms of faults. Which doesn't always translate to above average intelligence. They just tend to have an incredible ability to sell ice to penguins. But eventually after the bill of sell. The penguin is going to realize that he was sold ice. It's all a façade that they're unable to maintain.

These types are typically hired and lack the ability to keep the façade up that they created/presented with in the interview and bring chaos to the organization, before their secret is found out and they're ultimately fired. Or quit. But not before unleashing an unquestionable amount of destruction in their wake.

Even high functioning sociopath/psychopaths the likes of Frank Abagnale, like all of the types are self-destructive and heavily ruled by their emotions and are highly impulsive, narcissistic, selfish and pathological in nature. They can't help themselves and they all fall to ruin in some aspect or another.

I think that your worship of nonviolent, average every day sociopaths, even the highly functional types is misplaced. I think that I'd rather have employees or top leadership with genuine intellect and talent. Than those emperor types with no clothes.

YMMV
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It's weird when you read all this, and it finally clicks in your head that these tests are like dating websites. Answer a bunch of questions and see if the borg think's you'll be compatible with a company, instead of a russian bot
 
Looks like I'm going to be taking the Hogan in the near future. You'd think a Minnesota airline would want to use the MMPI, just saying!
 
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