Workplace reviews and discussion: 上晴國際有限公司

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This is a job that is unsuitable for people without experience. You have to keep apologizing, either because you don’t know how to do something or because you have to ask about it and apologize for asking. (Of course, I’m not talking about simple questions that can be found online or whose answers are immediately obvious.)

(I was asked to write their in-house résumé, the extremely simple kind. So the interview had virtually nothing to do with my own work experience.)

I worked there for three days.

Day one:

When I started work, they introduced the simple cleaning tasks that had to be done every morning.

Then they immediately gave me three of the vendors’ April posting schedules and asked me to write the articles. They told me to ask the team leader of the editors if I didn’t know how to do something.

Although I had already said during the interview that I had no relevant experience, I’m not the kind of person who asks others how to do every little thing. If I can find it online, I try to figure it out myself first, and only then do I ask. But the team leader of the editors loudly told me as soon as I sat down, “If you don’t know, ask right away. Don’t waste time.” So whenever I genuinely didn’t know something, I would ask her or confirm the correct information with her. Yet she always responded with an attitude of “You’re so stupid—what’s so difficult about this?” She also said several times, “Why don’t you know this?” and “Haven’t you done this before?” When I replied that I hadn’t, she would say, “It’s that simple...” On my first day, I spent the whole day frantically apologizing whenever I had to ask about something I didn’t know. (That’s right! They didn’t clearly explain the work at all. They just opened the materials and told me to look through them and try doing it myself.)

Day two:

They threw a different task at me again, and I continued apologizing whenever there was something I didn’t know how to do. By the second day, no one had come to handle my labor insurance or onboarding procedures. (I did ask! The response I kept receiving was, “Someone else has been asked to handle it.”) The team leader of the editors said, “That’s just my personality. I know I look fierce when I don’t smile. Don’t be afraid to ask, or you’ll waste time.” What?! I was truly speechless.

Day three:

I was genuinely speechless. They failed to explain the work clearly, then blamed me for not asking. It was only my third day... Was I supposed to know exactly what you wanted from the wording of your instructions? You even told me that someone inexperienced like me needed to think things through. What was that supposed to mean? Do you think I don’t? Whenever I asked, your attitude was so terrible...

After work, I called to resign. The boss, who had never shown any concern for me from the time they hired me after the interview until I resigned, said to me, “I had originally planned to provide you with training, because this job was never meant to be something you figured out on your own...”

Ma’am... I figured things out on my own for three days... It’s not that the job itself was particularly difficult, but your employees’ attitude...