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You can broaden your horizons, watch a soap opera play out right before your eyes, practice projecting your voice, and strengthen your palace-intrigue skills.
My formidable friend, while venting about quitting, told me that the Tudigong deity this company worships must be very powerful. You could even take some incense ash home and pray for unexpected financial luck.
Seeing that another position has been posted, my formidable friend decided to explain things. Anyone considering joining should think it over carefully.
Company culture: the boss only values the favored department, which has led its people to spend all day yelling at Department XX. When they are in a bad mood, they curse a few times to relax. The favored department can also directly dump work they do not want to do on others as a way to relieve stress.
The mid-level managers in Department XX are notorious in the industry for slacking off and do not want to manage anything. When problems arise, they cannot coordinate and have no solutions; they only tell you to be a little more patient. Their various lazy, half-baked tricks make you want to praise them with, "You’ve really got some nerve."
The boss’s divine logic lets him make himself sound very generous, but once you put it under the “cons” section, you understand what it really means...
There are also people on the R&D team without relevant academic backgrounds pretending to know what they are talking about. Their only reason for shooting things down is three words: “I don’t like it.” Ask for more details and they cannot explain, yet they mock you for not understanding.
The marketing staff got a project into the news and now think they can reach into other departments and throw their weight around.
As someone commented earlier, “Respect is hard to come by at this company, and they are always trying to ride the latest trends.” I really couldn’t agree more.
There are also things like writing group birthday cards or putting on a staged birthday-surprise party for the boss. I will say no more about these kinds of common, phony displays.