when meeting someone new, and for whatever reason you're on the fence about the 'type' of person they are, how likely are you to put it to the test by 'accidentally' dropping a $20 bill and seeing if they give it back to you.

i got a buddy who is a contractor. he hires and fires his crew based on the $20 test.

he accidentally drops the bill, walks by and back around. if the guy(s) doesn't get his attention, and try to return it - he fires the guy the following week.

he's fired three people with this test. two black on mexican.

i thought the shit was genius and could be applied to so many things people and situations.

what do you think of his behavior? is it a set-up?

are his morals fucked up for testing people like this?

im still on the fence. what do you think?

If they don't see him drop it and it could be considered anyone's then no it's not


does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

It would have to be more overt like leaving it in the chair he was sitting in, or right on the table or desk.

he hurriedly walks past the man and puts the hand in and out of the pocket while letting the bill fall as he passes.

some real magician man-shit, but the shit was believable.

unless its being recorded.

If he has to go around plotting ways to "test" people, then dude is the one with trust issues. Like someone else said, dude assumes that people actually saw him drop the $20, but everyone isn't paying attention like that. He might have fired someone that just saw a $20 on the ground and had no idea where it came from.

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and contract work is full of suspect characters.

so you gotta keep them on point.

how do you propose people principle-check a stranger they have to work with?

you have a lot of faith in people?

Run a background check. If they pass that, what more can you do.

I mean is dude firing people that actually work with money?


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The crook will give the money back smoke in your face and steal thousands of equity from you or have a team rob your house. I'm convinced most burglaries are ppl that are "friends".

Test me by evaluating my work. Period.

boss lol

and you was hanging out in a parking lot all day waiting to get picked up for a job.

im thinking times is kinda hard for you and based on the test, you gonna leave the site?

Or work. Is it a secure room or site? No wind no other people?

without telling him.

it could be just them two on the specific site.

indoors, no wind.

empty home.

working there all day i wouldn't even assume it was his. At the same time, it wouldn't necessarily be that big of a deal. I might mention to the dude i found a $20 and i might stuff it in my pocket and forget about it.

Point being there are so many variables involved for thaat to be the reason you fire someone.

building yourself an addition to your own house with them.

that's not okay.

I just have no other way to explain why I think intentionally "testing" someone just shows that the person doing the testing has a lack of trust.

I could see if I worked for the CIA or FBI, but a contract job doing some sort of labor? Nah. Dude has issues. The type to give their kids a lie detector test, or have some dude holler at his wife just to see how she responds.

They drive you to the interview site in a hired car. Later the boss or whoever asks the driver how they were treated by the potential employee-- if the driver says they were treated poorly then dude or dudette doesn't get the gig.

its'also not prone to as many mistakes or mishaps.

With the zappos hiring thing, they are judging how you'd treat potential customers/business by how you test other strangers you don't know...i see no issue with this.

but with dropping money...unless he sees them see him drop the money, and then he sees them take the money...how can he assume that they took it and were dishonest? someone else might have been around, saw it and took it. Maybe the person thought it was paper, maybe the person doesn't have sharp eyesight...it's so many factors on how this is fucked up.

not comparable to zappos at all.

opinion etc...unless they tell the driver to do extra stuff to see how you respond.

I sat next to a girl on the chinatown bus to NYC and she left her purse. I hopped off the bus and waved her down because I would hate for that shit to happen to me.

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/21/nypds_operation_lucky_bag_target_of.php

Folks literally FINDING a bag on the ground (no person around) and before they can even walk off with it (to, you know, maybe call some of the numbers on the phone, or google the name on the license) they lock them up.

i don't have time for all those mind games

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at