I have always asked what insurance an employer has against the stupidity or maliciousness of employees. 2007 was a tough year for us, it saw us in tribunals, we had watertight policies and won every single time, looking back I wonder if these kind of tests would have weeded these people out, the ones that want to blame the employer for their own stupidity in the work place.

This makes me think of 2 things:

First, I once worked for a company where the 3 Directors had built the business together over 17 years before one of them quietly bled the company dry and absconded with a few £million and his family, never to be seen again… The two other directors were meanwhile left carrying the can – a company going into administration and all employees suddenly and rudely out of a job…

I guess there isn't a psychometric test you can get company directors to take???

Second (and I have nothing to prove this) I believe the best employee would be one who didn't need to work. They wouldn't worry about telling the boss what s/he wanted to hear as opposed to giving their honest opinion/ feedback, would have no need to play politics; they'd be there because they wanted to not because they had to; they'd take their salary and any bonuses as their due; they wouldn't allow themselves to be walked over:

I'd love to try it out!
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