New job application question

[The Borgified Corpse]

I'm doing another one of those damned Kronos/Unicru online job applications. I've recently run into a question: "What did you like least about this position?" regarding my various previous employers. This is another one where, with regards to the bookstore job I was fired from last year, I'm wondering how honest I should be.

Honestly my answer would be either:
- Management.
- All the good managers got fired or demoted.
- The company's increasingly corporate attitude led to irrational decisions and neglect towards many of its most loyal customers.

Less harsh (and less true, but still somewhat true) answers would include:
- Understaffed.
- Straightening the kids section.
- Slow days with fewer customers.
- The store doesn't carry any new items.
- Store remodeling.
- Constantly clogged toilets. (Actually, I liked this part. There's something refreshingly simple about plunging a toilet. Either it's clogged or it's not. It's not like straightening books, where you always have to ask, "Is it straight enough?")

Advice please?

 

[clint g]

Honesty is NEVER the best policy with job applications

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I've got another question. On many applications, they ask me to list the specific occupations of my references. Now, for professional references, do I give the occupation that they had when I worked for them or the position that they have now? (They used to be "Assistant Manager," "Book Department Manager," & "Music Department Manager." Now, they are "unemployed," "Book Buyer," & "Music Buyer," respectively.) If they have a different job title now, should I indicate that?

 

[Cornholio]

"What did you like least about this position?"

that's a question I would not answer in a written application. if you have no choice and must answer, keep it simple and try something like this:

changes in managerial policies.

as far as references go, give them names, nothing more.