Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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An Interview Using the 'Wobbly Chair Test'. Interviewers seeking good employees may well use the 'Wobbly Chair Test'. It entails two chairs; one set a little aside which is totally normal. The interviewee's primary chair by the interviewer has one leg cut a bit short. This enables the latter chair to not sit straight and to wobble. The test is, will the interviewee notice and remark on the unsteady chair, Momentarily stop the interview, and ask to exchange chairs; Or will 'they' (notice the 'singular they' employed here) Continue to wobble and uncomfortably continue with the procedure? Of course the interviewer is interested in whether or not The one interviewed takes initiative in a situation And notices something that needs improvement. Of course, if the person interviewed is shy and may not speak up, The establishment may possibly lose an otherwise potentially good employee. Presumably, all that is in the good insight the interviewer may have at that moment. Frank Maurer 13 July 2025 0030 Hours.