Able to leave work on time
After a typhoon day is announced, the company requires employees to check the wind and rain conditions the following morning before deciding whether to go to work. Before leaving home, a colleague reported that the wind and rain were severe, but the supervisor only asked whether there was flooding. When the colleague said there was not, the supervisor replied, “Then that’s fine,” and said we still had to go to the office as usual, handle our work, and only then leave early. When training new employees, they say to ask if there are any problems, but senior employees and supervisors are very clearly impatient with employees they dislike. Their instructions are often unclear, causing new employees to make incorrect judgments, and then they blame us for not doing things based on “I thought” or “I felt.” Throughout the learning process, they basically treated me with a “negative” attitude. There was so much work that it was impossible to finish everything, leaving me overwhelmed. When I brought this up with the supervisor, they simply opened their notebook and told us that they had even more work to do and that we needed to arrange things ourselves. I also remember making a mistake during an especially busy period. After the supervisor yelled at and blamed me in front of everyone, I tried to ask a senior employee how to resolve it, but was immediately snapped at: “Are you asking me what to do now?” I really needed an answer and wanted to resolve the problem quickly, but in that embarrassing situation, besides panicking, I did not know what to do. Things like this happened repeatedly, making me feel that the workplace culture was such that only if the supervisor liked you would the atmosphere be relatively friendly (although there was still more work than could be completed). Otherwise, no matter how much effort you made to get up to speed quickly, as soon as you made a mistake, you would be criticized as though you were completely incompetent. This work experience only made me feel that I was terrible and useless.