Workplace reviews and discussion: 近代旅行社有限公司

You can often watch a live eight o’clock drama unfold right beside your desk.

Other than the person in charge of the company, all the other colleagues are easy to get along with (this is not guaranteed, because someone quits every few days after reaching their limit).

After reading the following reviews, I found that even after several years, the history remains astonishingly similar.

The general manager has extremely poor emotional control. If the way you do something is even slightly against his wishes or you fail to keep up with his pace, he immediately concentrates heavy fire on you and launches a fierce attack. Once those unable to endure his attacks leave, those remaining had better stay on high alert to avoid becoming his next target. This treatment of employees has resulted in every department having only two or three core employees, while the rest have very short tenures and turnover is extremely rapid. Someone who has been there for just two months can even become the most senior person in the department.

Under the pretext of holding meetings to align everyone on progress, he actually makes everyone listen to him brag and praise himself, as if the company makes money solely because of him and every department depends on him to operate. He often tells everyone to work methodically, yet he is the person in the company most fond of breaking the rules. Abruptly changing his decisions is commonplace. He constantly shouts that the company is his, that he has the final say, and that his mother does not know how to do business, without realizing that he spends all day doing meaningless things that waste people's lives. He often asks everyone to put themselves in his shoes, yet requires employees to complete tasks within unreasonable time frames. Meanwhile, things requiring his review can sit quietly on his desk for a week without any follow-up.

As for overtime, only overtime he approves qualifies for overtime pay—for example, handling tasks he assigns right before leaving work (while he himself simply turns around and walks away). Work done out of a desire to improve things is regarded by him as only natural. He also occasionally mocks employees in front of the entire company, saying that they need to stay late because they lack ability, so they should not even think about receiving a single cent of overtime pay.

To the brave souls who, after reading the above, still want to go to this company to broaden their horizons: best of luck.