It sounded just like the tone you hear when someone hangs up on you. It even said "the other person has cleared" over and over again until you end up walking right up to the desk it's hiding under, not that you can tell at first glance.
It's surprisingly flat for a creature that can eat a 6 foot man in less than a minute. Not at all what you'd expect from something that can clear an entire office block in about a day. It looked like a flat, fleshy, dark grey cushion that just so happened to be able to unfold itself like a well-read book.
Occasionally it would play up on its appearance rather than its vocal talents, choosing a seat in a quiet corner and opening wide the second someone's attention left as they went to sit down and then SNAP- they'd be folded like a lawn chair and swallowed in two bites.
Now the staff want to get rid of it, they're terrified that they might be next without a moment's notice but the bosses call it "incentive". If you're too scared to sit down then just imagine how much more work you can get done, how many more meetings you can set up to avoid being alone.
It worked too well for them to consider removal.
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