When you apply for a job, there are certain questions you have to answer, but one Chick-fil-A test has people feeling a little confused.
It all began when someone posted a screenshot of an application for Chick-fil-A, which showed three simple math questions.
The person, who wrote in the ChickFilAWorkers subeddit, revealed: “Sister showed me this assessment she needed to do while applying for chickfila..”
First up was a question asking what 6+7 is. So far, so simple, right? For this, the answers to choose from were 14, 15, 13, and 16.
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Of course, the correct answer is 13.
Then, the second question asked the applicant what 85-14+37 is. The answer? 108.
But it’s the third question that had everyone up in arms: 42-29?
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Obviously, the answer is 13, but the Chick-fil-A assessment didn’t give that number as an option.
Instead, it asks applicant to choose between 21, 22, 20, and 23.
People on Reddit were not happy about the question, with many calling it ‘bs’.
Someone wrote: “Whoever made this assessment needs to be reevaluated for 2nd grade repetition for the 3rd question.”
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Another said: “I think I would have walked out leaving them wondering if I couldn't do math or that I thought their test was absurd and not worth the b.s.”
People eventually come to the conclusion that the question surely just includes a typo, and was instead supposed to ask the applicant to figure out what 42-19 is, leaving 23 as the correct answer.
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The post also sparked a wider debate about the assessment task itself, with some surprised to see it was part of Chick-fil-A's hiring process.
Others, meanwhile, could understand why it was, as one person wrote: “Because nowadays kids can't do the kind of math I learned in kindergarten in 2004... we're screwed yall. The current generation of highschool and middle school student won't even attempt math problems that require more than a few steps.”
Someone else wrote: “I mean I get why they would have a basic math test on the application. Chick-fil-A doesn’t want to hire idiots with half a brain and who never had a day of education in their life to be working the registers and handling cash. I know the registers do the math for you but you still need to know how to count money lol.”
One person said that as ‘someone who has had to hire a few cashiers’ they support the question being on a test for applicants as the ‘amount of people who don't understand how to convey totals or give change, or count money is staggering’.
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They wrote that they find it ‘extremely hilarious that question three has no right answer tho.’
FOODbible reached out to Chick-fil-A for comment.
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Britt Jones