Workplace reviews and discussion: 侏羅紀股份有限公司

＊Using ellipses to try to erase the bitterness and tears of former employees, deceiving fresh recruits into joining so the boss can exploit them, is truly shameful behavior. No matter how many times you delete this, I will keep reposting it.

Previously, I was still considerate and wrote some advantages for you. It seems I was mistaken about your company⋯

Anyone who thinks their liver is too healthy and wants to rapidly wear out their body and develop a host of illnesses is welcome to join⋯

The only advantage: colleagues share a bond forged through adversity. Although people sometimes have different opinions, we still help one another.

1. When the boss is anxious, he insists on having things his way and disrupts everything that was planned. When the results ultimately fall short of expectations, he then expects you to take full responsibility.

2. The boss requires him to personally review everything, but when he is busy, he often perfunctorily says “OK.” Once you actually carry it out, he then berates you, saying this is wrong and that is wrong. When you tell him he already reviewed it, he will even “forget” and claim he never said “OK.”

3. Building on the previous point, you would be better off carrying a recording device with you 24 hours a day at work. He will come to give you instructions even when you go to the restroom. After you return to your desk and do what he asked, he will “forget” again and blame you for wasting time on it.

4. The company has absolutely no SOP to follow. The boss changes things whenever he feels like it: even after materials have been sent to print, they still have to be changed; even after contracts have been signed, they still have to be changed; and even after the venue and time have been finalized, they can still be changed. If something cannot be changed, he blames everyone and everything else, and in the end you still have to bear full responsibility for the performance and outcome.

5. To continue the previous point, the company’s only constant is that it is always changing. Sudden reversals of decisions are common. Employees are forced to work overtime to meet his demands, and he will still say, “I’m working overtime to keep you company too,” as if everyone should be grateful.

6. When the job involves professional fields the boss does not understand, such as web design, system development, or programming languages, he will listen to your approach and let you handle it. But halfway through, he suddenly intervenes with a whole host of unprofessional demands. Nothing you say can dissuade him, and when the results are poor, you still have to bear full responsibility.

7. After something happens, he holds a review meeting, but his reviews focus on criticizing “people.” The entire meeting is about seeing who is unlucky enough to be targeted. Even when the problem originated with him, he never thinks he is at fault; the problem is always someone else. The review meetings also never use methods such as “Why” analysis to prevent the problem from recurring. They simply become witch-hunts every time, ending with him blaming employees for having “changed” and saying they “don’t put their hearts into their work.”

8. The boss may not appreciate you even when you devote yourself wholeheartedly to the company. If vendors chew you out because of his unreasonable demands, he will even blame you for siding with the vendor.

9. Whenever you make a mistake, he will either harshly criticize you or let it go if he happens to be in a good mood. Later, when he wants to target you, he will bring it up in a meeting and dredge up the old issue. Communication is always emotional and unreasonable.

10. On the surface, the company’s responsibilities appear to be distributed evenly, with each employee handling their own duties. In reality, nearly everyone is doing work beyond their responsibilities. The boss will first tell you, “This will be quick and easy—just take care of it,” then force tasks outside your role onto you (usually things he expects you to finish in one day because the deadline is tight). After you work overtime and deliver what he requested, he will then criticize you for “doing it carelessly and not putting your heart into your work.” He may even hold a review meeting and invite several colleagues to criticize the work he had told you to rush and finish in one day.

11. To continue the previous point, when you tell the company that your workload is too heavy, he tells you to “personally” find someone to help with the excessive workload. This does nothing to improve the situation, since everyone is already too busy to step away—so who can actually take on these tasks? When you raise the issue again, he will say, “Everyone is busy and everyone else can do it, so why can’t you?”

12. Once the boss insists on doing something, he does not care whether everyone can handle it or whether there are time constraints. There is only endless overtime, followed by accountability for ineffective results after rushing something out at the last minute⋯

13. Employees can hardly get normal rest, especially with bans on taking leave. Employee fatigue is never within the boss’s range of understanding. He may even say that he is strict because he wants us to improve？？？

I don’t know how much I contributed to the company. When there are orders, you are always cherished; when there are no orders, you are garbage. The boss is short-sighted and focused only on immediate gains, and is fundamentally unwilling to manage the company for the long term. Whenever I look back, all I feel is grievance and resentment. But because of this environment, it is also easy for colleagues to develop genuine friendships forged through adversity.

Everything above is based on real experience. If any of it is fabricated or maliciously defamatory, may I be struck by lightning.