I’m Meg, a female member.
I was expecting it to take about a week too.
So when they contacted me on the day of my interview to say my profile was ready, I was surprised—“That was fast!”
But when you’re the one waiting, it’s hard not to feel anxious. It’s exactly like being a student waiting for exam results.
“Which is it already?!”
As the days go by, that inner scream feels like it’s getting louder.
I hope you find out the result soon.
Marika,
> They could just message me on LINE.
Exactly. Why leave that as a gray area???
That’s what I keep wondering.
Maezawa from the Corporate Planning Office here as well.
We generally tell people, “If you’re accepted and registered, we’ll contact you within a week,” so one week is the guideline.
When someone isn’t accepted, not contacting them isn’t really the right thing to do. But we think, “They came all this way, and I’m sorry we couldn’t register them. No matter how we put it, it’ll hurt their feelings,” which makes it difficult to say.
As a result, we end up saying something like, “We’ll contact you if you’re registered.”
Recently, I asked one of our branches—despite not exactly practicing what I preach—“You don’t contact people who weren’t accepted?”
They replied, “Huh? We were allowed to tell them? I thought there was a rule that we weren’t supposed to.”
That surprised me. It was almost becoming an unofficial rule naturally, even though nobody had actually decided that.
The basic policy is:
- Clearly tell the woman if she wasn’t accepted.
- If someone really can’t bring themselves to say it, it’s okay to tell her, “We’ll contact you within a week if you’re registered.”
It was only meant to be an option for cases where they truly couldn’t say it, but it was starting to turn into, “We must not tell women they weren’t accepted,” even though nobody had decided that.
That’s what happened.
If it’s already been more than a week, you should try contacting them.
> That’s awful.
I’m very sorry ＞＜
Our Universe LINE account was changed, and staff members were having trouble contacting people.
(The women still had the unusable LINE account registered, so it remained on file and we couldn’t tell that we were no longer able to contact them.)
There have also been cases where someone was actually accepted but, for some reason, never made it into the registration process.
Both situations are extremely rare, so if you haven’t heard from them after a week, it’s highly likely that you weren’t accepted.
Even so, since these very rare situations can happen, please contact them just to be sure.
I’m Marika, a female member.
In my case, it was on the same day.
Mr. Maezawa says, “If you haven’t heard from us, you may not have passed, but there could occasionally be a mix-up, so please contact us.” What an awful way to handle things.
If you didn’t pass, they could simply send a message saying so. I think they should at least contact you on LINE, but not doing that is one of the mysteries of Universe.
