lol maybe, but Joe has had PR-training...he isn’t just your average schmoe. And answering a hypothetical instead of the question asked of you is a very common technique for sidestepping topics you don’t want to answer specifically; since you make the interviewer feel like you’re engaging & giving them something, rather than combating them with cliches that say absolutely nothing at all.
No, I get that
My point is that you can do that without going as far as Joe did. I say use the cliche for BPA, but you can discuss it without going an extra step further like Joe did and still a hypothetical, more engaging answer
I mean, ultimately even your interpretation is just claiming he didn’t really mean anything more than saying BPA
Which would mean answering it like he did, with that intent, is just misleading
It’s an interpretation of what he said that seems more like you’re starting of an assumption of what he wanted to say and working backwards, rather than taking what he said and working on what it means and why
It’s just way too roundabout to think he did it on purpose to achieve that, imo. Much less compelling of logic to me than he let a little of the truth slip while trying to give that sort of answer, or if he tried to be vague and essentially said whatever
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