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, “That’s good, then,” and said we still had to go to the office as usual, finish handling our tasks, and only then leave early. When training new employees, they say to ask whenever there are problems, but senior employees and supervisors are obviously 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 far too much work to finish, leaving me overwhelmed. When I reported this to the supervisor, the supervisor merely opened their own notebook and told us that they had even more work, so we should arrange things ourselves. I also remember that once, during an especially busy period, I made a mistake. After the supervisor yelled at and berated me in front of everyone, I wanted to ask a senior employee how to resolve it, but they immediately snapped: “Are you asking me what to do now?” I genuinely needed an answer and wanted to resolve the problem as quickly as possible, but in that difficult 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 could you have a relatively friendly atmosphere (though there was still an endless amount of work). 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 if you were completely incompetent. This work experience only made me feel that I was terrible and useless.