Stress Test ....

Time flies... I am now entering the 4th month on my new job.

First month was uneventful.... or more accurately - boring.

Second month was quite eventful. I thought of an interesting analogy which describes the situation -- stress test. Those in engineering community would know that new products would be subjected to stress test to check the product durability. Stress test intends to filter out infant mortality units.

Stress Test 1 : Use magnifying glass in fault finding, and then openly jeered at your small little mistakes just to make you look stupid.
Objective : To test how thick is your skin

Stress Test 2 : Close door reprimanding, and making baseless accusations. Involves table banging and some level of aggresiveness
Objective : To test how one react under stress. This one was specifically designed to test the fairer sex - i was told later. Girls tend to breakdown more easily, it seems.

Stress Test 3 : Its 5.30pm. Boss come to you with a super -urgent task, and tells you to complete the task by tommorow morning. Dont you just hate that ?
Objective : To check if you can perform under limited time.

Its a little like kungfu movies where the hero has to perform some dangerous rituals to prove their worthiness. On hindsight, i find that a little amusing. But there and then, if you are the subject being tested, i assure you that it was not amusing at all.

In my opinion, it was all not necessary. If the company is not assured that they hired the right person for the job, why interview at all ?! However, boss still believe its for the best. If there happens to be "fatalities" "drop-out" "infant mortality" or whatever term he chooses to use, too bad then. To him, its no loss either.