1. The interviewer is the boss, and his attitude was pretty good.

2. The HR person with the surname Chen looks a bit older, but still has an enduring charm.

(I can say that—I’m the one who left a comment asking whether she was the boss’s wife, hahaha~)

“Before the interview,” they asked around about the applicant’s performance at their previous company.

It is entirely reasonable to suspect that, before the interview, the boss would call the previous company to ask about the situation.

During the interview, he casually said a few things that let me know he had asked.

Because my previous boss assumed that I had Tourette syndrome and thought it was a symptom of bipolar disorder

(I do not have any mental illness at all).

This was my previous boss’s biased prejudice and mistaken belief, which stemmed from some friction in communicating online.

(Looking back now, I think it was pretty silly—basically just an excuse to save face.)

I only later realized that Tourette syndrome is not bipolar disorder at all; they are completely different.

Back to the interview:

When the boss of this company asked me about the reason for leaving, I explained that the company’s operations and management were not suitable for staying long-term. He said, “I think you have symptoms of Tourette syndrome.”

I could tell what he was getting at. I don’t know whether he was deliberately hinting that I should say that during the interview.

I think it was because my previous company was also in e-commerce, so he had asked around about me. Feeling that my privacy had been invaded made me very uncomfortable.

Then the boss said, “Let’s just chat,” but throughout the conversation he kept trying to find out what the applicant’s待遇 had been like at the previous company and how employees were treated.

I told him the truth about what made me feel that my previous company was not suitable for staying long-term. In any case, he had already asked around—he wanted to know the truth. Actually, even if he hadn’t asked around, I would have told him.

I still shared everything with him. In any case, even if I were hired, I wouldn’t work under someone like this. I treated it as a cautionary example and told him why I had resigned, but I think he was probably shocked by what I told him.

Now that I’ve seen the reviews, including people saying that the boss guards against employees as if they were thieves, I’m not surprised at all!

If he treats applicants like this, what is there to be surprised about?

I advise anyone thinking of applying to be fully prepared for their privacy to be invaded—and it may happen as soon as after you submit your résumé, when they call your previous company!

And even if they hear a bad review from the previous company, they may still invite that person to an interview, wasting their time.