There is a position with AI in its title, but in practice, joining lets you immediately become part of the big circle and have fun together.

jack: Looks extremely skinny, carries a laptop around all day pretending to write reports, but is actually sharing gossip in LINE groups; the only thing he uses on his desk at work is the calculator. The old-timer slacks off—he’s the ringleader—and every day they compete to see who can be more useless. He deliberately teaches newcomers the wrong things, then tells the supervisor, “Why does he learn so slowly?” When there’s a problem, he turns around and asks you to teach him, then pretends he’s never heard it before. Targets aren’t meant to be achieved; they’re meant to be raised at any time, so you won’t feel that life is too easy.

james: The most impressive thing is that he can spend eight full hours talking on the office extension. No matter how you ask, he’s always “busy”—too busy to reply to messages or attend meetings, yet he can leave work punctually every day. Most impressive of all, he pushes every mistake onto you, looking at you as if you owed him millions.

Li✠Yu: Always wearing sparkling glasses and smiling warmly while looking you over. He speaks gently, but his professional knowledge is weak. He doesn’t care about your understanding of the position or your professional abilities; in reality, he uses counterquestions and challenges to probe your work experience and extract details about your former company, rather than expecting you to become productive.

Me: I was responsible for a large-scale upgrade project. I should have clearly understood your company’s ✠✠ expertise. I’m very interested in your...

C: Oh, the algorithm you use—I’ve recently seen certain major global companies using it too. Can you tell me specifically how it was implemented? Which solution did you start with? And what about optimization of the algorithm component?

My inner monologue: Are you an engineer or a fortune-teller? Why can every answer you give veer off into something so abstract? Why can’t you answer directly??

Xu✠Long: Become a victim from the very beginning.

A one-hour course, led by Teacher Xu✠Long, guiding everyone into the realm of disaster. The six basic moves: slacking off, disappearing, shifting blame to others, pretending to be busy, scrolling on your phone, and shirking responsibility—letting you immediately join the big circle and have fun together!

🕤Work hours: 10:00–11:00

🕤Work hours: 11:30–18:00

A co-leads the team with the other old-timers.

Rumor has it he was an airborne appointee sent by a religious group, rose to power after dining with the boss a few times, and is completely unqualified to manage people. He also likes humiliating newcomers in public; once he even yelled at someone over an office extension for half an hour, treating the whole office as if it were dead. Because all the work is left for you, every day is spent slacking off, chatting, and scrolling on your phone—every day is a blast.

The salary is supposed to give you money set aside to buy insurance, so you won’t be completely ruined in body, mind, and spirit.

It will also teach you one thing: career planning? It doesn’t exist, because your job description evolves every day.