Filmed Live on Feb 24, 2026 on Substack - Deb and I jumped in to personality assessments, Personality at work sounds harmless, even fun—until your four-letter code or DISC color starts shaping who gets the “stretch” roles, who’s seen as “resistant,” and who gets blamed for systems that were never built for them in the first place. This one actually stayed fairly ON the rails courtesy of Nicole performing an introvert shut down in real time lol. You know you’re tired when you don’t even have energy to play with ideas….
Nicole pulls apart the corporate love affair with personality tests: MBTI, CliftonStrengths, VIA, Enneagram, even the tools that have no business near a hiring process. She walks through what these assessments can actually tell you, where reliability and validity fall apart, and why “preference” is not the same thing as “competence.”
Deb brings the inside-HR receipts: being labeled into tech-y work, watching assessments get rolled out as a supposed fix for low engagement, and trying to survive burnout in a system that swore it cared about “the whole person.” Together, they trace how something that starts as self-discovery can turn into a very convenient way to rationalize extraction.
If you’ve ever been told “that’s just your personality” when you were reacting to something structurally off, this one gives you language, a simple robot test for sorting people problems from system problems, and permission to stop treating your “type” like a moral verdict…..or anything more than just another piece of information like rather you do or do not like pineapple on pizza.
