The Ulitmate Question

I think I might have found the ultimate question for an employment interview.

If I was to interview someone that I might employ I would ask if that person had a pet as a child (or have one now, maybe). If he or she had, I would ask what kind of pet and for how long he/she had the pet. I think that might be the ultimate question to find out how responsible someone is.

I have realised that some people, in their profession, treat work assignments as pets. Some collects them and take on more than they can handle. Some like them when they are small and cute, but can not really envisage that it needs to be fed every day and that the litter box won’t empty itself or that it might grow and stay around for a long time and when they realise that, they just let someone else take over and they have found a new hobby…

I would not like people like that working for me. And I am quite fed up working with that kind of people.