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All the basic benefits you would expect are provided. There is a spring banquet and employee trips (but only if performance targets are met, you are a senior employee, or the boss is in a good mood).
It is absolutely impossible to do only one specialized type of work—you can get involved in a great many things that originally fall outside your job responsibilities. :)
Senior management is extremely skilled at PUA and adept at belittling your abilities, making the work you spent time on sound completely worthless—even when it was something they told you to do.
They tell you A at first, then switch to B halfway through. Finally, when you submit B, they say, “You misunderstood me. I wanted C.”
You spend a huge amount of time writing approval requests and setting out your own opinions and ideas, which are passed up through layer after layer of management. But the boss only needs to answer with a 1 or 2; it does not matter what the managers in between chose, and there is no need to know why.
No matter how many mistakes are made, they are always the frontline employees’ fault. When something goes wrong, frontline staff take the blame; when there is credit to claim, senior management fights over it.
It is an extremely draining work environment, which gradually makes departments less willing to cooperate with one another—they only want to push work onto others. After all, the more you do, the more mistakes you can make; who wants to take the blame? If something goes wrong, senior management can just use PUA tactics to pressure you into working overtime to fix it. And if they emotionally blackmail you a little, you would not dare claim overtime pay anyway.
Senior management always says one thing and does another. When something goes wrong, they say, “I never approved that.” When there is credit to claim, they say it was all their idea.
It is supposedly fine to be understaffed, and it is supposedly fine for many managers to leave. They can always hire fresh graduates at low salaries to exploit. As long as they keep up the constant PUA and empty promises, they can make certain hardworking colleagues work themselves to the bone.
They constantly shout that every task must have an SOP, but when the boss gives an order, nobody actually follows the SOP—if they pressure you to rush something out, you have to rush it.
They keep saying they want to integrate AI into the workplace, and they put people who love using GPT on a pedestal. Do they actually understand that AI can only be an aid? Relying solely on AI will make your thinking duller and your sense of aesthetics worse. Please stop relying only on AI to create images and videos, and pay a little closer attention to the details.
Watching those people who only know how to flatter others is genuinely nauseating.
Anyway, a bunch of managers have left, but it does not matter. As long as there is a boss and a group of part-time workers, I believe O’right can still continue to thrive. Keep it up.