Accumulating enough life drama for a prime-time soap opera

To be honest, from the interview all the way through joining the company, I had no idea what this company actually specialized in, because the training system was practically nonexistent. If you're just a university graduate with no job prospects looking to do odd jobs, or if money isn't a concern for your family, you can come work here. But if you have long-term plans for your life, you'll probably become extremely anxious 🙂 The coworkers also seemed to have no idea what was going on. Everyone was just muddling through and waiting to die, occasionally gossiping—and you might even end up becoming the subject of your own gossip (?). When rushing to meet a project deadline, there was absolutely no planning: we'd spend four or five days working overtime to write a proposal without any direction, and the proposals written by several people had neither consistency nor focus. We'd hastily submit something just for the sake of submitting it. If we didn't win the bid, we'd move on to the next proposal, with no postmortem or anything. And if the system was like this, there was no need to think about employee benefits either—we just kept eating empty promises until we felt sick.

During my time there, I experienced two situations where the company seemed on the verge of collapse. Even after salaries were delayed and unpaid, the company still had the nerve to claim that it was “still calculating the hours worked,” or brush us off with remarks like “How much do you think you should get for this level of productivity?” or “Who do you think you are, talking back to me like that?” Of the ten things they promised, it felt like twelve were never actually carried out—the extra two were additional demands they expected you to fulfill. There was also an absurd amount of drama during my employment. It wasn't just that the company had problems; the veteran employees they brought in were bizarre in all kinds of ways too. All I can say is, every pot has its matching lid. Some slept at work and only held up progress; some came up with a pile of excuses whenever a deadline arrived; some had barely any experience in the field yet bossed everyone around and acted as if being a manager made them incredibly important; some constantly gave impractical instructions with no clear priorities, vehemently argued with people, and started giving attitude whenever something went wrong or they needed to submit an expense claim; and some messed things up, quit twice, and were still given a third chance to return. The remaining fresh university graduates came into the events industry with fresh livers and fresh attitudes, only to have both worn down to almost nothing:）All I can say is, impressive.