Workplace reviews and discussion: 艾衣酷有限公司

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“I forgot”: The people at the top of the company who handle things may have Alzheimer’s disease; they often forget many things.

“It’s perfectly normal to forget to issue salaries”: There have been instances where salaries and pay slips were forgotten.

During the interview, they said the probationary period was three months, and that good performance plus passing the test would lead to a salary adjustment. After passing the test, the results had to be reported to upper management, and you had to keep reminding them before they would remember to adjust the salary. Salaries do not increase with seniority; some people have stayed for six years and still earn the same salary as newly hired employees.

“It’s perfectly normal to undercalculate overtime pay”: 6:00 p.m. is the regular end of the workday. If you work overtime from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., any overtime worked before clocking out at 7:00 p.m. will not be paid.

For the same number of overtime hours, people with different salaries receive the same amount of money. When this was brought up with the company, they simply said it was “easier to calculate this way” (?).

“Labor and health insurance”: High salaries are underreported. Before departing employees have formally left the company, their labor and health insurance is transferred out without authorization. Employees are even told, 【You won’t be coming back to the company anyway, so you probably don’t need to be insured anymore, right?】. If this company is in such financial difficulty, it would be better to take the opportunity to close while things are still manageable.

“What do you do at work?”: Unless you are an employee in a department favored by upper management, it is perfectly normal for the company not to know what you do even if you have worked there for five or six years. They may not realize that you were responsible for all these things until you resign and they need to hire someone.

“You’re not doing anything anyway”: If you do your work diligently and finish it early, the company will think you have nothing to do and assign you tasks from other departments. Eventually, those tasks will become part of your job, and you will be responsible for them going forward. Your salary will not be adjusted, and you will not receive any thanks; they will simply think that since you have nothing to do, you should be doing these things.

“Meetings that waste your life”: Meaningless meetings are held frequently. After decisions are made in a meeting, upper management may suddenly decide the next day that something is wrong and change the outcome to what they want. Alternatively, when something requires assistance from upper management to execute, their “Alzheimer’s” may flare up again, and it may take three or four months to complete.

Sometimes, if upper management is in a bad mood during a meeting, they reject every proposal regardless of what you say. Then, in the middle of the meeting, they may suddenly curse and swear at employees. Please, if you’re in a bad mood, just don’t hold a meeting.

“The boss says go east, the boss’s wife says go west”: Sometimes they pass responsibility back and forth. When you ask the boss, he says to ask the boss’s wife and that it isn’t his responsibility. When you ask the boss’s wife, she says it is something the boss decides.

Sometimes they disagree: one says, “It’s not urgent—take your time,” while the other says, “Get it done by [month] [day].”

So, whose instructions are we supposed to follow?