soulping | DAWON

[ you're ushered into a tiny break room, which is SURPRISINGLY WELL LIT! There's some chairs, a single table, fountain pens and inkwells, and a box of (stale) donuts. ]

[ on the table is a single sheet of paper, with the following questions:

TEAM NAME (if made up of multiple teams, choose a new one):

1.) What would you say your skills, as a team are?

2.) How would you define suffering?

3.) How far are you willing to go to achieve victory?

4.) Where do you see yourselves in five years?

5.) What are your team's weaknesses?

6.) What accomplishment are you most proud of?

7.) Tell me about a time you made a mistake.

8.) If you saw another employee stealing from the company, what would you do?

9.) Describe your team.

10.) What motivates you?

11.) What makes you uncomfortable?

12.) Can you say: 'Peter Pepper Picked a Pickled Pepper' and cross-sell a washing machine at the same time?

13.) If I came to your house for dinner, what would you prepare for us?

14.) Calculate the angle of two clock hands when time is 11:50.

15.) Has a member of your team ever killed another living creature? Did they enjoy it?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I understand that, but.....well, just how would lying protect us?

If we give really ruthless answers, she could call our bluff and force us to act on them.

We could give harmless answers, but that still leaves the issue of her making us go outside of our comfort zones.

We should try to be as neutral as possible.

She could take advantage of any answer we gave. I don't think there's any avoiding that risk.

[Hm.]

Well, let's go through the questions and see what we can come up with.

The more neutral, the better. Neutral answers are less likely to shove us too far in any direction.

....Mm.

[Reading the paper with a resigned look on her face.

She doesn't like lying.]

You can be neutral without making things up. It's easy to make most things sound neutral.

Even so, I'd like to answer at least some of these honestly.

Mm... fine.

Mostly neutral with some honesty.

[Points at 13.]

This one should be fine to answer like that.

[why don't you like my answer]

We can use yours. My answer is just, "I don't have a cooking skill so it's your fault for asking in the first place."

[because it's unnecessarily sarcastic]

It's a little harsh for a neutral answer, is all.

[Taps quill against 15...]

Your answer is fine.

My answers might make things worse.

Mm....I just don't think there's any way to avoid properly answering it without taking some kind of chance, you know? She could use a lie or deflection against us as easily as she could the truth.

So we might as well be honest.