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《A Work Experience of Mental Torment: Dedicated to Job Seekers with Masochistic Tendencies》

──If hell had a branch office, this place would definitely be on the list.

If you have strong masochistic tendencies, can tolerate endless psychological torment, and encounter unprecedented practical jokes every day, then this will be your paradise.

Food? Bad enough to rival a high school military training camp. White rice with unknown cold dishes every few days; nutritional imbalance is the standard set meal. Occasionally, there is even a platter of leftovers, making you wonder whether the kitchen is trying to use up its inventory or dispose of food waste. Hygiene? Greasy, filthy, chaotic, with flies buzzing around. Sometimes you are eating rice; sometimes you are eating courage.

Coworkers? Some of the nursing staff seem like characters who walked straight out of a psychology handbook on antisocial personality, displaying rare antisocial traits—honeyed words but a dagger in the heart, two-faced and inconsistent. They pretend to care about you on the surface while secretly calculating how to dig a pit and wait for you to fall into it. They have endless creativity when it comes to twisting your words, nitpicking, and triggering a crisis in your public image. Today it is sarcastic insinuations; tomorrow it is spreading false information; the day after that it is reporting to management that you are “not a team player.”

Every day at work is a psychological game. They are like test subjects who wandered into a psychopathology laboratory, racking their brains every day to set traps, humiliate you, and suppress you—not letting you die, but not letting you live properly either. From the morning meeting onward, you have to prepare your defenses: Will I be singled out? Is someone slandering me behind my back again? Have the documents “just happened” to disappear again? This intense anxiety clings to you all day like a shadow.

And the chief architect of all this is that century-old piece of trash known as “Section Chief 4 Fish”—his existence is like a slow-acting poison, filling the entire department from top to bottom with resentment and an atmosphere of conflict. He is a typical bully who fawns over the powerful and intimidates the weak: bowing and scraping and flattering his supervisors, while acting aggressively and threateningly toward frontline staff. He has developed his own “philosophy of class oppression,” fully embodying the essence of the words “workplace bullying.” In his eyes, there are only tools that can be controlled and patience that can be exploited—no humanity, no human warmth.

Here, “wrong” is never simply wrong; it is a label pinned onto you.

And “silence” does not mean safety. It only means you are more likely to be the next person used as a scapegoat.

I. The Daily Breakdown──Every Day Feels Like a Civil War

You think you are going to work, but in reality you are going to war. This war has no smoke or drums; it has cold violence, covert attacks, and quiet psychological abuse.

Every morning at 7:30, when you clock in, you are not entering an office but a silent hunting ground. Who gets targeted and who gets put on the grill depends entirely on who seems the most harmless, has the least backing, or comes from the weakest background. The more obedient you are, the more you suffer; the more seriously you work, the easier it is to frame you. If you simply ask, “Why is it arranged this way?” you will be labeled “uncooperative,” “opinionated,” or “someone who likes to talk back,” and then, for the next three days, you will be “accidentally” left off the work schedule notifications.

Want to keep a low profile and just muddle through? Wrong. The ecology here is not what you think. Silence does not mean safety; it only means you will be next to be used as a scapegoat. Keeping quiet merely reserves your time slot at the altar. They will use you as a scapegoat, a shield, or a marginal person to be drained, until you finally explode—and then they will say, “Oh, you seem emotionally unstable.”

The most frightening thing is not conflict, but this psychological warfare that goes on year after year: saying you never explained something even though you clearly did; saying you made a mistake when it was not yours; saying you are in a bad mood when you simply did not smile.

Eventually, you start wondering whether there is something wrong with your personality or whether your memory really is failing. You may even start writing notes to record who said what and when each task was assigned, because you know that the next second they will deny everything and then turn around and blame you: “You got it wrong from beginning to end.”

This is not work; it is slow torture. It is not a workplace; it is a replica of a psychiatric ward.

II. The Complete Guide to Their Unique Ways of Tormenting People──There Are No Limits to Their Creativity

Here, playing tricks on people is an internalized culture; you could even call it a core job skill. Their techniques are not direct physical confrontation, but using softness to overcome strength, gradually penetrating your psychological defenses through policies, tone, timing gaps, and group pressure.

One of the most common tricks is “repeatedly assigning the same task + giving vague instructions.” You have clearly finished a task and submitted the documents, but two days later they deliberately ask, “Have you finished handling that?” You answer, “I already submitted it.” They smile and say, “Oh? I don’t think I saw it. Could you submit another copy?” So you have to do it all over again. This is not efficiency; it is torture.

Then there are coworkers who use the “fake concern, real trap” approach. They pretend to be kind in front of you and ask, “You seem really tired lately. Are you under a lot of pressure?” Then, as soon as you say something truthful, such as “I feel like I’m being targeted,” the next day they suddenly make a double entendre at the morning meeting: “Everyone has been under a lot of pressure lately. Some people even feel targeted…but we are actually very fair, right?”

There is also an even more sinister tactic: “multiple chains of command + attacks from above and below.” The section chief says A, a coworker says B, but you can only choose one side. If you choose incorrectly, the other side will punish you, and in the end both sides will blame you for “not knowing how to communicate.” Want to remain neutral and coordinate? Sorry, they will say you are “trying to please both sides.” Whatever you do is wrong.

They will not kill you with one blow. Instead, they cut you a little every day, slowly slicing away at your nerves and reason until you doubt yourself, deny yourself, and fall apart.

III. How to Be Driven to Doubt Whether You Are Crazy

You think you are holding up, but your body is more honest than you are. Long-term insomnia, heart palpitations, diarrhea, chest tightness, stomach pain, and even inexplicable tears. No one has clearly berated you, yet you feel as though you are surrounded on all sides. You begin to fear the alarm ringing in the morning, fear seeing the section chief’s name appear in the group chat, and fear being called over to “have a little chat” during a meal.

You go to the doctor. When the doctor asks what is wrong, you do not know where to begin. You only say, “I don’t think I can keep going.” The doctor casually writes you a sick-leave note and says, “Have you considered resigning?”

You say, “But if I resign, I lose.”

That is the core of psychological torment: making you unable to tell what winning and losing even mean.

IV. Quotes from Section Chief 4 Fish──A Collection of One-Liners That Send Your Blood Pressure Soaring

He says: “I’m not targeting you; I’m targeting the issue.” (And then targets only you.)

He says: “We’re actually very open-minded. If there’s a problem, just speak up.” (Speak up and you will be held against it.)

He says: “You did well; there are just many areas for improvement.” (Next time he will say you have made absolutely no progress.)

He says: “I’m doing this for your own good.” (The moment this sentence comes out, you know something terrible is about to happen.)

V. Survival Skills I Learned (Although I Still Escaped in the End)

Record meetings.

Write down the date, time, and content of every assignment and conversation.

Keep all text messages and screenshots from group chats.

When you doubt yourself, believe your pain first.

Never fantasize that you can change the system.

What I ultimately learned is this: if a place makes you lose your dignity, your health, and your happiness, it is not worth staying there.

VI. Reflection and Processing After Resigning──Why Does a Workplace Like This Exist?

Because there are too many silent people.

Because bullies have been given too much impunity.

Because we all want to believe that we can “just endure it a little longer.”

But enduring it will not earn respect; it will only bring more trampling.

I hope that when people in the future see this post, it will not be for gossip, but so they can say to workplaces like this: No, I will not accept this.

Because we did not come into this world to be punching bags.

Because we deserve fair treatment and a normal working environment.

Even if you are still stuck in the mire, please remember:

You can leave,

You can seek help,

You are not crazy.

You are simply too normal to tolerate the abnormality here.