Don't test me!

Today I have an 'assessment' for a job I have applied for, I hate them, whatever happened to the good old fashioned interview?

I can perform pretty well at an interview, hell, anyone who knows me personally will tell you I can talk the hind legs off a donkey usually, but assessments, exams, tests of any description are just not my forte. I can employ every positive thinking and relaxation technique in the book but despite all that within five minutes I am usually reduced to a hot, sweaty, gibbering fool who has lost command of any intellect or abilities I ever had! Outwardly I probably appear reasonably 'normal' but inwardly the plot is lost and my mind just won't continue to function....ugh tests!

This particular 'delight' includes data input speed, math and ultimately the dreaded role play, oh how I detest role play, and all for a job that is poorly paid and that doesn't appeal to me but in my current status of unemployed and broke, what I want to do and what someone might possibly employ me to do, are two very different issues. 'Want' is not a privilege I can afford right now.

This particular job is a customer service role, customer service is my strong point, twenty years or so at the sharp end, being verbally and on occasion physically attacked and never did I lose the painted smile or the ability to deal with the situation and resolve it appropriately....but put me in front of a tester and for me it's a whole different ball game.

Hey ho....into the lions mouth once more, perhaps this time I won't degenerate into a lump of idiocy.

Pigs might fly....and as an indication of my nervous idiocy, I just put a spoonful of ground coffee into a bloody mug, instead of the cafetiere.

I rest my case!