"this job was never real, we made it up to show shareholders that we're 'growing,' and then the hiring managers complained enough about us forcing them to waste desperate peoples' and their own time"

or

"we dragged our feet for months looking for a unicorn candidate and the entire department isn't on fire so that means the role doesn't actually need filled–the team of n doing n-1 peoples' work for the same pay surely won't burn out!"