Workplace reviews and discussion: 鼎恒有限公司

I recently visited a department store in the Xinyi District and saw a senior part-time employee from a certain store. It suddenly reminded me that previously, whenever X創店 happened to sell products from this store, and this senior part-time employee happened to be working, if I asked them to help ship something or stamp a warranty card, they would say to the staff at the other stores: “Why should I help you ship it? Why do I have to do this for you? I’m busy. Don’t add to my workload. Handle it yourself. Tell the employees from the other stores to come pick it up themselves.” A part-time employee would even lecture employees from other stores. (I made several trips.)

Previously, when I came to provide support and the company had goods that needed to be shipped, the senior part-time employee would keep saying, “Why do I have to keep shipping goods for the company? The company should hire someone to do this. I’m just a store employee, and this isn’t my job!”

I even heard that when inventory had to be taken, that senior part-time employee did not want to do it and would say to the store employees:

“I’m not doing the inventory. The company is short-staffed anyway. Even if I don’t do the inventory or do any work, the company can’t do anything to me. I don’t need this job either.”

Then they would disappear and go shopping.

(I thought they were a senior part-time employee, but I was mistaken—apparently they were actually the big boss.)

Likewise, when I came to provide support, this senior part-time employee would repeatedly leave the counter to gossip with employees at other counters. Even after this was reported to the store manager, they just ignored it and nothing came of it.

Then, a few days later, people from other counters would come over and ask what had happened at the company, what your counter’s boss had said, and what your coworkers had done. This senior part-time employee would come over during work and tell them everything.

They would even ask people to proactively guess whether someone at our counter had a girlfriend.

Why do we need to know these things while working at our counter? Why are the people at your place so bored?

According to employees at the X創店 store, that senior part-time employee would spend the entire workday asking other people about their private matters whenever they were working.

For example, they previously asked people how much bonus they had received.

Once someone told them, they would immediately send a LINE message or screenshot and tell other colleagues:

“So-and-so received this much. How much did you receive?”

As long as they knew something, basically the whole world knew.

The work environment was good, and fortunately I eventually left. But when I think about how someone like this could exist, I still find it bizarre….

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