Here's a blog that ended last December. The Wal-Mart Blog was supposed to recount one man's experiences working there, but all of a sudden, he seems to have vanished... but we have his recollections of his first 94 days.
Day one described the application process and aptitude test:
They don't have you fill anything out (lucky for me), instead, I sat down at a touch-screen kiosk and typed all the important stuff. References, previous employers, work experience....But then they had this sort of aptitude test, where I answered certain questions about my views on management/employee relationships, past work problems, and a bunch of ethical questions about workplace theft and drug use. Not if I had been involved in these sorts of things, but hypothetical questions about how I (or sometimes management) would/should react if employees were stealing, or if someone came to work "just a little bit high" (their wording). It was weird. I'm guessing maybe they've had problems with this in the past, and they try to root out potential "bad seeds" before the interview process?
Posted by Kevin on April, 24 2005 at 07:46 AM
