{"id":64499,"date":"2026-02-03T04:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=64499"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:45:33","slug":"the-wlbott-petting-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=64499","title":{"rendered":"The WLBOTT Petting Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The WLBOTT<\/strong> HR manager, Bev<\/strong>, was planning a birthday party for her niece Bevette<\/strong>, and learned that WLBOTT<\/strong> had an internal-use-only<\/em> petting zoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bev<\/strong> does do her due diligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She checked out the brochure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She was impressed that the zoo animals had their own Linked-In page…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… as well as individual profiles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But on the day of the party, the underfunded WLBOTT Petting Zoo<\/strong> arrived, and reality crashed head-on with perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bev<\/strong> was not happy, and she went into full HR mode in front of the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the following Monday, Bev<\/strong> calls the couple in to WLBOTT HQ<\/strong> for a performance review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The WLBOTT Balloon Ladies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But there was a bright spot at the birthday party. The children were delighted by the WLBOTT Balloon Ladies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The WLBOTT HR manager, Bev, was planning a birthday party for her niece Bevette, and learned that WLBOTT had an internal-use-only petting zoo. Bev does do her due diligence. She checked out the brochure: She was impressed that the zoo animals had their own Linked-In page… … as well as individual profiles: But on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-kingdom","category-curated-absurdity","category-wlbott-corporate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64517,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64499\/revisions\/64517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}