The office environment is spacious and open.

I was delighted to submit my résumé to 跨際 and was fortunate enough to get an interview for a content editor position.

First, a woman asked me to complete a written test, and everything was normal. Later, a man came in—probably a manager, though he didn’t look like the owner.

The interview itself was fairly normal. He asked when I could start if I were hired, and I gave April 16 (Monday) as my available date.

I don’t remember this part very clearly because the manager spoke so indistinctly, as if he were eating a braised egg while talking. What I basically understood was that I might receive notification sometime during the week before April 16 (or perhaps the week before that), and then, after the weekend, I would start work on Monday.

That sounded fine to me. In any case, I understood that I would receive notification before April 16.

But April 16 came and went without any notification.

I wanted to call and ask about it. Later, I heard that the manager had told other colleagues (to protect the source, I can’t currently disclose how I heard this):

“He told me he had already found a job.”

“He told me he had already found a job.”

“He told me he had already found a job.”

What kind of plot twist is this?

Later that Friday (April 19), I decided I should still call to confirm, in case there had been some misunderstanding.

Someone there told me directly that, according to that manager, he had personally contacted me and I had told him that I had already found a job.

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Did that phone call go straight to the underworld?

I personally never received a thing. No one notified me.

Even though I already knew about this, hearing it confirmed firsthand was still quite shocking.

I don’t know whether I truly performed terribly in the interview. If you don’t want to hire me, just say so. Not receiving an offer is perfectly normal, and I wouldn’t hold a grudge against the company for not hiring me.

But why put on this whole act? Why make up things I never said?

In the end, it made it look as though I was supposed to start work but failed to show up and stood your company up—as if you were the aggrieved party.

This company may actually be pretty decent; I don’t know.

Being smeared is one thing. There are plenty of strange people in society anyway.

But I wanted to share what happened so everyone can take it into consideration.

If you don’t mind being smeared as long as you have a job, you could consider it.

But if you really don’t want to work with managers like this, think twice.