[{"content":"“It was great speaking to you today! Obviously I can’t say anything official yet, we need to let all the interviewers get together and make a formal decision, but from everything I’ve heard I think you’ll be hearing good news from us very soon!”\n“That’s wonderful, everyone I’ve talked to has seemed really great.”\n“Our people really are our best asset. We’re really proud of the team we’ve assembled here. Thanks for spending the time to come up and speak with us, is there anything else I can help you with?”\n“Just one small thing, could you point me toward the men’s room before I head out?”\n“Oh, sure, it’s down that way, it’s the door next to that…” The interviewer frowned, dashing over to a small paper sign on the wall, quickly tearing it down. “It’s right here”, she said with a bit of a sheepish grin.\n“I’m sorry, did that sign say ‘Beware of Tiger’?”\n“Yeah, sorry. One of our employees must have put that up as a little prank. The tiger hates that, so I try to pull them down any time I see them”\n“I’m sorry”, I said, concern rising in my voice, “did you say the tiger?”\n“Well, yeah. It’s really not a big deal, personally I just try to stay away from him”\n“Wait, wait. There’s a loose tiger, in this office? Shouldn’t we try to get it out of here? Surely that isn’t safe”\n“Well, he’s our tiger. He’s been part of the team since the beginning, and he’s been very helpful on some of our major projects.”\n“Ok, I have a lot of questions, but I’m still stuck on the fact that having a loose tiger running around an office sounds incredibly unsafe.”\n“Look,” she said, her voice going a bit quieter, “the CEO and the tiger are very close. And I think you’ll agree”, her voice rising just slightly, “the tiger is pretty great at what he does”\n“So good at what he does that it justifies keeping a tiger in the office? Has anyone been hurt?”\n“Well.. I don’t think we can say for sure what caused some of those injuries. We have lost a few people, but it’s hard to say, we might have lost them anyway. We can’t just change the way we run our company because a few people can’t share space with a tiger”\nLooking around, a few things that had seemed odd at first started to click into place. There seemed to be more first aid stations around than most offices he’d worked in before. Most office doors were kept closed. Some of the things he thought initially were sculptures were actually large, and well used, scratching posts.\n“Sure.. one last question, what happened to the last person who held this position?”\n“Tiger attack”\n“That’s what I thought. Thank you for your time!”, I said, quickly hurrying out the door.\n","permalink":"https://abexcessu.com/posts/beware-of-tiger/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e“It was great speaking to you today! Obviously I can’t say anything official yet, we need to let all the interviewers get together and make a formal decision, but from everything I’ve heard I think you’ll be hearing good news from us very soon!”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That’s wonderful, everyone I’ve talked to has seemed really great.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our people really are our best asset. We’re really proud of the team we’ve assembled here. Thanks for spending the time to come up and speak with us, is there anything else I can help you with?”\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Beware of Tiger"}]