XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science
From: YourName@YourISP.com
J. Clarke wrote:
> In article , robban@clubtelco.com
> says...
> >
> > On 25/01/2014 7:21 am, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:10:39 +1300, Your Name wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yep, I've done and be in numerous surveys too, and they're all
> > >> completely worthless due to many varying reasons, mostly thanks to the
> > >> idiotic and misleading way the "results" are reported.
> > >
> > > My pet peeve with surveys is that the correct answer to a question is
> > > often "none of the above", yet very few surveys allow this as a choice.
> > > Online surveys, in particular, usually won't let you save the results
> > > until you have chosen one of the answers the survey-writer supplied.
> > >
> >
> > Very true. I do a lot of online surveys, and in the box most of them
> > provide for comments, I find myself writing time and time again "In
> > Question X, you forced me to lie because...".
>
> It's not just surveys. I was helping somebody fill out an employment
> application for a major hotel chain the other day and at one point it
> has a section on previous employment and for each one it wants "reason
> for leaving", with the choices being "Terminated, Promoted, Resigned,
> Laid Off". There's no option for "Still employed at this job" and it
> won't submit the application until you pick one of the four.
>
> In the previous section, dates of employment, there's an option "to
> present" that one would expect to disable the "reason for leaving"
> requirement, but it doesn't.
Did you try going past that section? Technically a job you're still
doing would not be "Previous Employment", but "Current Employment", so
that might have been the following section.
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