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better

(884 posts)
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:35 PM Apr 2021

Employers asking who won 2020 election, to weed out crazies...

Just read something along those lines on social media, and have to ask.

If I get that question, should I go with "Stacey Abrams" or "humanity"?
They both seem accurate.

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hatrack

(59,583 posts)
2. I think of it more as the kind of question they ask you in the emergency room .. .
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:42 PM
Apr 2021

"Who is President of the United States?", when they're checking for disorientation or shock.

perfessor

(265 posts)
11. When my wife was coming out of anaesthesia
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 01:05 AM
Apr 2021

back in October, they started asking a series of questions to judge how she was doing. When the nurse asked who the president was, the love of my life mumbled "Orange Mussolini." The nurse looked puzzled, asked the question again, got the same response. Nurse looked at me quizzically. "She means Trump. She doesn't like to say the name." The nurse laughed and said "I don't either!"

niyad

(113,213 posts)
5. True. But my cynical, suspicious little mind would wonder if they were on the loonie side,
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:48 PM
Apr 2021

and wanted people who live in the alternate universe.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
3. Joe Biden.
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:43 PM
Apr 2021

The truthful answer.

My question then would be what answer are you looking for? If they don’t answer right I would immediately tell them I am not interested and end the interview.

jcmaine72

(1,773 posts)
7. Thank God my employer never asked this question about the 2016 election.
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 11:36 PM
Apr 2021

I would have truthfully answered "Vladimir Putin", and gotten fired.

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