It is used to elevate a key witness, intimidate someone, perhaps create friction by seating people who are at odds next to each other, and most of all to keep the man in charge in control.
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Had heard when Adm Rickover was interviewing future Nuclear Sub Officers, the chair would always have a defect in it with the only furniture in the room his desk and a chair in front of it.
The chair would either have one leg shorter or some ‘defect’ to keep the interviewed off balance...
May not be true BUT if that was the rumor, one would be kept off guard wondering what was wrong with the chair...
Kind of Trumpese..
As to the curtains....if you didn’t want me to close them you wouldn’t have put them there..
Always keep ‘em guessing, then sit back and laugh....
The Good Admiral was FULL of intimidation tactics.
One Sub-Commander candidate was taking a last-minute relief break when another man came up to the next urinal.
The Admiral looked over and said, “Don’t you DARE F*** this interview up, Bill”
Probably caused an acute case of urination interruptus
Wonder what he would have done if you said, “Excuse me while I fix this chair.”
Wrll, I sat in that when I interviewed Rickover. No wobbles, nothing obvious other than the thing did seem to lean forward more than I would like if I used it full time. (I did accept his offer to workon his reactors.)
His desk was ordinary steel. Gray USN
NSN generic ordinary.
Yes, the Admiral was VERY tough on the officers that came before him.