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Have you ever taken a personality test for work?
A: No.
B: Yes, once.
C: Yes, more than once.
D: My work is administering personality tests.
If B or C, did the exercise seem worthwhile?
A: No, because it didn’t tell me or my managers anything we didn’t already know.
B: No, because I lied on all the answers.
C: Yes, because the insights I gleaned helped me increase my performance and
D: Yes, because if I hadn’t taken it they would have fired me.
Are work-administered personality tests a good topic for comedy?
A: …I admit it’s not one I would have ever thought of on my own.
B: I suppose it’s an experience that a reasonable number of folks have shared?
C: This game is funny, so I guess my answer has to be yes.
D: All of the above.
What about a multiple-choice test, is that a good format for comedy?
A: No.
B: No.
C: Yes?
D: Well, I’m writing this review, what do you think.
What line in the game made you laugh the hardest?
A: “Ready to learn a little more about yourself and not hold Burger Meme™ responsible for any trauma this required voluntary test may cause?”
B: “Social Skills: BRACE FOR IMPACT, HR.”
C: “Liberal Arts majors don’t historically become productive members of the Burger Meme™ family. They become ‘whistleblowers’ who ‘believe in the dignity of workers’ and ‘try to start unions’ so that employees can ‘take profits from parasitic shareholders and redistribute them to employees.’”
D: “It would be like trying to work at Disney and being afraid of lawsuits.”
From that answer, I’m wondering whether this comedy game is actually more of a satire of bad corporate behavior?
A: Yes, though Burger Meme is so cartoonishly evil and short-sighted that the critique doesn’t seem like it could possibly apply to any actual corporation.
B: Yes, and now that I think about it, it’s almost certainly the case that corporations really are using AI chatbots to interrogate prospective hires and using the results to make decisions, and good lord that’s bleak.
C: No, because the test gets so zany, so quickly, that the occasional bits of trenchant social commentary don’t have time to breathe.
D: No, of course not (please don’t fire me).
Why do you think the Burger Meme test-administrator-bot tracks answers that it doesn’t like as “Sins”?
A: It’s a statement about the ways that corporations try to moralize simple questions of efficiency, in to exploit human beings’ natural pro-social instincts.
B: It’s a mechanic that unlocks a unique ending if you finish the game with exactly seven sins.
C: It’s an acronym for “Situationally INapposite Solution.”
D: None of the above.
What was the first ending you got, and why was it a failure?
A: I got too belligerent with the AI.
B: I got too friendly with the AI.
C: I admitted I was also an AI.
D: I admitted I was a vegetarian.
Final assessment:
Analytic acumen: 63%
Comedic chops: 24%
Overall employability: 17%
Potential role in the Burger Meme™ family:
A: High-concept corporate-retreat designer.
B: Customer experience technician.
C: Ingredients.
