"I see." Information gathering he can understand, but the rest doesn't tell him as much as he'd like. At least he's learning a fair amount about this employee in particular, and that can always be filed away to make use of later. He should feel bad about considering how to take advantage of all those he runs across today, but he knows he can't afford to now. Sympathy isn't for villains.

Though he can still fake it. "Hopefully you won't be in that position much longer than necessary, given that you're diligent enough."

He looks down to the Growlithe. After a moment, he pulls out his pokedex from where it was sitting nearby and flips it on to get a reading. He's used it on his own pokemon already, but he might as well figure out what exactly this one is since he failed to properly guess a related species.