1. Family-owned business

2. Unclear work assignments (they keep dumping an endless amount of work on you)

3. Senior employees bully newcomers

4. Extremely gossipy (even yawning gets passed around)

5. I heard my predecessor left because they were bullied

6. Please be careful around a certain system “grandma.” She appears to have your best interests at heart, but in reality, she fishes for gossip. Instead of teaching you the system, she looks for your mistakes. She is not an ally but an obstacle—a malicious person who will not teach you how to catch fish, but will eat you instead.

7. This company’s payday is very unusual. Employees who start after the 15th do not receive their salary until the end of the following month. For example, if you start on January 20, you will not receive your salary for January 20–31 until the end of February (February 28)! In other words, they withhold one month’s salary from you…

8. They often verbally humiliate and hurt you at work, but the supervisor herself sometimes forgets to switch between company identities, meaning that when a “princess” makes a mistake, ordinary people are not treated equally under the same rules. However, newcomers’ mistakes will be magnified without limit…

Everyone there has been around for a long time, or some got in through personal connections. I think you understand what I mean… Also, documents have to be so neatly arranged that not even a corner can stick out. They have to be extremely tidy…

1. Family-owned business

2. Unclear work assignments (they keep dumping an endless amount of work on you)

3. Senior employees bully newcomers

4. Extremely gossipy (even yawning gets passed around)

5. I heard my predecessor left because they were bullied

6. Please be careful around a certain system “grandma.” She appears to have your best interests at heart, but in reality, she fishes for gossip. Instead of teaching you the system, she looks for your mistakes. She is not an ally but an obstacle—a malicious person who will not teach you how to catch fish, but will eat you instead.

7. This company’s payday is very unusual. Employees who start after the 15th do not receive their salary until the end of the following month. For example, if you start on January 20, you will not receive your salary for January 20–31 until the end of February (February 28)! In other words, they withhold one month’s salary from you…

8. They often verbally humiliate and hurt you at work, but the supervisor herself sometimes forgets to switch between company identities, meaning that when a “princess” makes a mistake, ordinary people are not treated equally under the same rules. However, newcomers’ mistakes will be magnified without limit…

Everyone there has been around for a long time, or some got in through personal connections. I think you understand what I mean… Also, documents have to be so neatly arranged that not even a corner can stick out. They have to be extremely tidy…