If you want to do absolutely nothing and still get paid, welcome—but I can’t tell you exactly when you’ll get the money.

Salaries are not paid on time, and the payday is changed without notice. Salaries are underreported, and the senior management consists of a father and son. It’s a private company where the boss does whatever he wants. The scheduled payday was the 15th, then it was changed to the 15th or 20th, and later they said it would be the 22nd or 29th. Every month is like living on dirt, with salary payments dragged from the beginning of the month to the end. The standard excuse is that the clients haven’t paid—what does that have to do with the employees? If the boss says so, laid-off employees won’t receive severance pay; you have to go through mediation. Whenever an assignment from the boss doesn’t suit him, he swears at people wildly. He wants the horse to run but doesn’t want to feed it. When you ask when the salary will be paid, no one knows anything; you’re told to ask the boss’s assistant. The company has no accountant, and payroll depends on whether the assistant comes in that day. To put it bluntly, the assistant is the boss’s son’s girlfriend. They’re all insiders—how could she possibly not help him?

The boss asks employees to pay expenses for him upfront and thinks it’s only natural. If an employee refuses to help, he says, “It’s just a small amount of money, isn’t it?” Then the salary is also just a small amount of money, so why not pay it? Is your company having cash-flow problems?