Flattery and bootlicking

Some of this company's internal circumstances are truly like a Trojan horse: you only discover you have been deceived after joining. Looking back at the process of applying for this position, if we use flashback to return to the day of the interview, we would find that the actual job responsibilities were completely different from what was written in the JD (job description). Tasks that were never mentioned during the interview made up more than two-thirds of the work after joining. Everything from the product commercialization process, Sales Kits, requesting part numbers, packaging, folding cartons, and listing products on the official website, all the way to channel marketing and product marketing, had to be handled by one person. The most outrageous traps involved the contract and the work assignment. A colleague responsible for HR recruiting (whose English name is Lynn, surname Lin, and whose middle name contains the character ✠瀅) kept urging people to sign the terms quickly, using topics such as eating European cuisine or going upstairs to watch fireworks to divert attention. She even said there was no need to read the contract too carefully, because someone would naturally provide instruction on site. What she did not mention was that, although the nominal employer was this company, the actual arrangement involved several layers of outsourcing. Moreover, whenever anything unfavorable happened at the assigned site, she would never proactively disclose it. Instead, she brushed it off by saying that “the work is very simple; just follow instructions,” and openly admitted that she did not want to deal with what happened elsewhere. What would happen if something went wrong? Another administrative employee (whose English name is Stanley, surname Li, and whose middle name contains the character ✠毓) often repeated the logic that everyone should shoulder the burden together—or that administration should go out and take the hit first, and if that truly did not work, they should find a new employee to take the blame. This colleague surnamed Li, who normally spent all day looking at his phone while walking around, even joked over lunch at Sushi Express that, if something went wrong, they could simply blame the newly hired person named Robin. The way business was handled internally was also astonishing. Whenever a customer complained, a colleague in R&D named James (surname Li, whose middle name contains the character ✠源) would suggest sending an AI-generated report first and dealing with the rest later. Another employee responsible for technical analysis (named Jack) held the same view, believing that for failure analysis, they only needed to organize a pile of AI-generated content for the customer and make the evaluation sound polished. In addition to colleagues shifting responsibility among themselves, the upper management's style was even more suffocating. One manager would add whatever came to mind during meetings or while assigning work. As a result, the development schedule was always compressed; every day brought meteorite-style requirements. Most ironically, after the team finally rushed the work out and submitted it, it would then sit for several months before being launched. If someone could no longer continue and wanted to leave, that high-handed manager would resort to emotional blackmail, accusing people of having “no sense of loyalty among those in the same circle” and forcing them to clean up the mess. According to what a senior employee surnamed Xu (named ✠龍) revealed about the internal culture, whenever something happened here, the newest employees were the first to handle it. Those in high positions would eventually reveal that they applied double standards to everything: professionally, they were “strict with others but lenient with themselves”; they put on an act with other departments, fawned over senior executives, and subjected their own subordinates to relentless bullying and humiliation. Ultimately, this company is really being propped up by a group of sycophants who cannot be dismissed and possess a deeply servile mentality, while the management remains trapped in a rosy bubble, believing themselves to be far-sighted and exceptionally talented leaders.