Can you suddenly get assigned a lot of strange tasks?! Fortunately, some colleagues are quite friendly, and there are people willing to teach you when you don’t understand something.

A very strange work atmosphere. Shortly after starting the job, I was constantly made to listen to the boss recount the company’s glorious history while repeatedly disparaging former employees. But after learning more, I discovered that even the longest-serving current employee had been there for no more than two years. One moment, the boss would talk about how capable people who had not yet joined the company were; the next, they would change tack and say how terrible the current employees were. But if the former employees were all so bad, how could there have been a glorious history? It really made the boss seem incoherent and inconsistent. Meetings often consisted of a group of people listening to the boss present flawed logic, yet no one would point it out—it was almost like listening to a cult leader, with everyone acting as though it all made perfect sense.