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The only good thing is that the company looks nice.
I'll show the conversation directly above—no beating around the bush.
Interview conversation
Interviewer: Why did you bring someone from the law department here? Please introduce yourself first.
Me: ...After introducing myself, basically, I'm in the night program. To put it plainly, I'm really just trying to get a graduation certificate.
Interviewer: You've worked in legal affairs and human resources. No one out there would dare hire you with a résumé like this, you know? Our work often requires business trips, and sometimes it's under a responsibility-based system! Can you handle that?
Me: Basically, it's really hard to find a company in Taiwan that fully complies with the Labor Standards Act. My cousin, for example, is an investigator at a private investigation agency, but the pay is very high.
Interviewer: Do you have any experience planning related activities?
Me: At my previous job at a recruitment website, I had experience planning a call for website moderators. I also wrote articles that ranked first in Google searches, and made it onto Yahoo and Dcard's trending lists.
At this point, I took out my work samples and showed them to the interviewer bit by bit. Just as I mentioned that one of my articles had been featured on SET News...
“Oh—sorry, I don't read anything that has appeared on SET News!” The other person had just received it and immediately tossed it aside. It wasn't an exaggerated throw, but it was very obviously the gesture of lightly tossing something aside after taking it in hand.
Then they chatted with me about why I was leaving my current job, and we made small talk about how I currently do sales for a Kaohsiung company that sells human resources software.
I only said that I also really couldn't stand how hot the weather in Kaohsiung was. After chatting about my family and financial situation, they said nothing else, and I suddenly heard YouTube music playing.
“Hey, you haven't finished interviewing me, and you're already playing music!”
In the end, they asked whether I had any questions, then told me to leave.
So incredibly classless! Did the night-program law department offend you? Did working in human resources offend you?