Everyone’s panicking over this viral ‘salt and pepper’ job interview test

Do you get rejected from the job if you like mayo?

4 weeks ago

The people are panicking over the deeply confusing “salt and pepper” test which bosses are apparently using to test candidates at job interviews. A Reddit user revealed their boss would hire people based on whether they ate their food before putting salt and pepper on. Honestly, we get judged for how we season our lunch now?

A Reddit user wrote, “A company I used to work for does all-day interviews with multiple people, and one of them is always a lunch interview.

“I heard about a guy who would base his entire decision on one thing – whether or not the person he was interviewing tried their food before reaching for salt, pepper, hot sauce, etc.

“If you didn’t try your food first, you didn’t get a pass from him. Glad I didn’t interview with him because I pretty much always add pepper to stuff.”

No wonder all of Gen Z are jobless and broke and unable to afford pumpkin spice lattes. There isn’t much hope for us if our entire futures are dependent on our choice of condiments at lunch.

I guess this boss’s logic is that if you taste test your food, then decide what seasoning it needs, then you’re making decisions after weighing up the information and adjusting your plans accordingly. While if you shake salt and hot sauce over your lunch without checking if you need it, then maybe you jump into things without thinking them through? Or you take up tasks out of habit without checking if they’re necessary?

If you don’t season your food at all, does that mean you’re the kind of mind-numbingly dull personality vacuum who orders “plain” chicken at Nando’s, and so the boss doesn’t want you anywhere near the company?