Normal working hours, with almost no overtime. For people with families, it’s a good place to settle down and take it easy.

Objectively speaking, if you have no particular thoughts about your work, do whatever you’re told without complaint or talking back, and just want to leave at 5:30 every day, then this place is a good fit for you. However, if you have confidence in your abilities and your own ideas, and don’t know how to hide your talents, your supervisor will target you at every turn. The supervisors here are generally incompetent and lack professional knowledge. They want obedient servants who follow orders, not capable soldiers who know how to fight.

In particular, regarding the Business Planning and Marketing Department: if you’re a recent graduate, I can tell you that you will learn absolutely nothing here, because all the important projects are outsourced to external marketing companies. All you can do is miscellaneous grunt work, and you’ll also be subjected to workplace bullying and manipulation by your supervisors and team leaders from time to time. It’s not that I don’t want to respect the supervisors; it’s just that the burden of doing so is simply too heavy. When they insult people, even the flesh around their mouths trembles. The turnover rate among newcomers is the highest in the entire company. The team-leader sycophants are completely emboldened by their positions; if you don’t flatter them and act as part of their clique, they’ll find a way to get rid of you. There is no way to appeal to higher-ups here, because the top boss doesn’t manage anything. In the end, the only person who leaves will be you.

If you don’t want to be subjected to workplace bullying and manipulation, the best approach is to do only your own work and never express any opinions about your supervisors’ methods, because their fragile egos cannot tolerate being challenged. Their most common tactic is to start by loudly shouting vulgar nonsense, go around disparaging a particular employee’s abilities to other colleagues, and then, after rationalizing their own behavior, tell HR that this person is incompetent and cannot be retained. The company’s crab mentality is deeply ingrained. Excellent employees find it difficult to receive recognition here. The political maneuvering and vicious competition among internal supervisors, along with the blocking of information from the boss, makes the boss believe that everything is peaceful. It is an environment filled with internal friction. People often use the term “traditional industry” to summarize this kind of workplace culture, but the problems here are no longer merely stagnant thinking—they are corruption from top to bottom.