You can leave work on time
After a typhoon day is announced, the company requires employees to check the wind and rain conditions the next morning before deciding whether to go to work. Before heading out, 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, handle the 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 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 it all, leaving me overwhelmed. When I brought this up with the supervisor, they simply opened their own notebook and told us that they had even more work, and that 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 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 genuinely needed an answer and wanted to solve the problem quickly, but in that embarrassing situation, besides panicking, I did not know what to do. Incidents like this happened repeatedly, making me feel that the workplace culture was based on whether the supervisor liked you: only then would the atmosphere be relatively friendly (although there would still be too much work to finish). Otherwise, no matter how much effort you put into getting up to speed quickly, the moment you made a mistake, you would be criticized as if you were completely useless. This work experience only made me feel that I was terrible and worthless.