#Assessment

An assessment center is a field of trials under the guise of evaluating talent. Participants exhaust themselves with group exercises and presentations, only to be judged by vague interviewers’ whims. It touts fairness and efficiency, yet becomes a device to test stress tolerance and corporate servility. Successful candidates emerge not as proven talents, but as warriors who endured needless ordeals.

An audit is the ceremonial wander through ledgers purportedly to unmask fraud, yet in reality a ritual of endlessly inspecting paper edges. Management presents its dance of numbers, and auditors sit as if judges at the gala spectacle. When issues arise, they are proclaimed with fanfare; when overlooked, everyone retreats to the safe zone of shared ignorance. Audit reports rest in dusty cabinets, contractual incantations never to be read. In this way organizations put on a show of "transparency" while trading in the comforting illusion of "security".