"This is definitely the most bizarre question I have ever seen on a job application"

[DonatellaNobody]

Yes.

Pull the little lever on the back of the elephant and the burger comes out. See my original answer.

[anothernewbbaccount]

@jonboy_nemo

does the elephant pull the food truck behind it?

No. The serving station is on/in a howdah.
I’d call my business “Howdah Chowder” or “Howdah-You-Do Food”

And then I’d pack my trunk and run off to Hindustan, back to the jungle.

Mandy Miller - Nellie the Elephant (Full Version) 1956

You may prefer this version, though.

Nellie The Elephant (Toy Dolls)

[everdred]

African or Indian?

[anothernewbbaccount]

Apparently African elephants are now considered two (sub)species.

The African Forest Elephant and the African Savanna Elephant

African elephant recognised as two separate species – both endangered

[Lisa_Beebe]

Yeah, I have a feeling it’d just be a matter of time before I became “that homeless lady with the elephant”

[everdred]

Any updates on African swallows? We’re nearing the 50th anniversary, so I think Holy Grail is about due for an update/digital enhancement.

[ChuckV]

@everdred

African or Indian?

[DonatellaNobody]

The correct response is "make an elephant tauntaun " then

[gabe_oakes]

You’d catch them by surprise.

Unlike me, as I came to make that very joke.

[PurpleFlower]

@frauenfelder

I took a class on how to respond to job interview questions once and they used this exact one as an example. The answer they’re looking for is “Open a business where you hire the elephant out for events like birthday parties.”

So basically if you’re a decent person and know this is morally wrong, you don’t get the job?

[lastchance]

I think so, Brain, but what if the elephant won’t fit into the jar of peanut butter?

[howaboutthis]

My response would be “Impossible situation. I neither want nor need an elephant, and no one can force one upon me, so stop wasting time on contrived, bullshit hypotheticals. Do you want me to work for your company or not?”

Which probably explains my total lack of a profession.

(edit: typo)

[DonatellaNobody]

Will Arnett could deliver that line in a way that they’d give him the job.

I cannot.

Hence my lack of a profession.

[capnjimbo]

@jonboy_nemo

i don’t really believe in a hell but secretly hope there’s an exception for people who kill, maim, or exploit elephants for fun or profit.

Good news!

[sarc]

suppose if you can’t put them on a production line your stuck with em…

[Melizmatic]

@Papasan

you turn the person who gave you the Elephant over to federal authorities for trafficking an endangered species.

That would have been my exact answer.

Of course, I tend not to apply for jobs that utilize such ridiculous metrics in the first place…

[d_r]

Put it in my VW Beetle along with the other 4.

Elephant joke

[gracchus]

@Papasan

The correct answer is, you turn the person who gave you the Elephant over to federal authorities for trafficking an endangered species.

Your comment has me wondering if the interview is screening for replicants.

Deckard: All right, I’m going to ask you a series of questions. Just relax and answer them as simply as you can. – It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet.

Rachael: I wouldn’t accept it. Also, I’d report the person who gave it to me to the police.

[RatMan]

Would it be a bad thing that I would put more time and effort into answering this question than any of the silly programming questions they usually ask?

[DreamboatSkanky]

Q: “…You can’t sell the elephant.”

A: “Not with that attitude.”