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I joined on 113.08.19, with seven years of experience as an SI engineer plus seven years in MIS.
On my second day at work, I submitted my resignation and was persuaded to stay.
On my third day, I submitted my resignation for the second time and was persuaded to stay again.
On my fourth day, I had completely given up and submitted my resignation, and they did not try to retain me.
On my fifth day at work, my resignation form had already been completed.
Company culture, management, and overtime are all tolerable, but the salary has to be commensurate.
What made me furious was the colleague who reported to work two weeks before me (and was assigned to collaborate with me):
1. His professional skills are questionable!? Communicating with him only makes me angry.
2. He lacks the ability to think independently; he cannot even use Google or Google Maps.
3. His grade and title are both one level higher than mine! That means my salary should be lower than his! I raised this with the manager, but the manager tried to fob me off by saying that job grade does not equal salary!...
4. The manager constantly says there is no time and that they are very busy. Did they actually read the reports I submitted? Did they understand them? Despite lacking sufficient professional skills, the manager often imposes incorrect ideas on subordinates and demands that they implement them! A manager's responsibility is management! Technical managers are naturally less familiar with some technical areas, but this manager also refuses to delegate authority to capable subordinates.
5. On my first day, I was promised that a report would be provided on Friday. I completed it and proposed a solution. Whether my report could be understood or implemented was no longer within my control.
6. This was the first time I had heard of a major SI company refusing an equipment loan-and-testing request from a listed company as large as China Engineering Corporation!?
7. Yesterday, I was called in to participate in a video conference with a vendor. The vendor's participant was the executive vice president of sales (sales staff usually ask engineers for support), and then I heard two people unfamiliar with technology talking past each other... Then the topic of whether FortiGate SD-WAN could be established over a single link came up. The sales executive vice president said it could not be done! I could not help laughing when I heard that (the corners of my mouth were already turning up). From the initial interview to the second interview (one month), I was able to implement an SD-WAN lab, and I even implemented it at home using a non-routable external IP...
Looking at July's KPIs, I see a proposal to hire professional talent at high salaries!? All I see is someone receiving a high salary but working inefficiently! By my third day, I had already identified problems in the Information Services Department and proposed solutions, yet my job grade is lower than his...
If any senior executives from China Engineering Corporation are paying attention here,
please take a closer look at the reports I submitted!
1. The manager does not assign people according to their abilities. Instead of consulting or discussing technical matters with the senior former SI engineer right in front of them, the manager argues with the vendor (who only has superficial knowledge) based on incorrect concepts!
2. After I submitted reports, I do not even know whether the manager read them or understood them. The manager said they would discuss them with me, but still stood me up...
3. The colleague responsible for liaising with the vendor clearly cannot engage in a technical conversation with the vendor's engineers. Even when merely discussing issues with me, they only understood my responses superficially.
Since I had only been employed for five days, other benefits were unknown.
Going to an interview in flip-flops is truly absurd,
with such poor taste causing great alarm.
Dumping work onto applicants’ shoulders,
and assigning take-home presentations is truly improper.
One must ask: if interviews are this discourteous,
how can applicants possibly remain at ease?
Companies’ demands are as numerous as hairs on an ox;
workplace ethics must be taken into consideration.
The interview process feels like child’s play,
and the complete lack of respect is heartbreaking.
Jobs are hard to find and competition is fierce,
yet applicants encounter interviewers so lacking in decorum.
Aspiring young people travel far and wide,
working tirelessly to secure a position.
I hope companies will show more sincerity;
only by respecting talent can they endure.
Some interviewers are not only sloppily dressed, but even require interviewees to take their work home, complete it, and prepare a presentation to report on it. Such behavior not only demonstrates contempt for applicants, but also challenges workplace ethics.
An interview is originally a two-way selection process and should be built on mutual respect. However, when interviewers treat applicants unprofessionally and require them to complete additional unpaid work, they are unquestionably wasting applicants’ time and energy. In such circumstances, applicants experience tremendous pressure and may also begin to question the company’s culture and values.
Furthermore, requiring applicants to complete actual work tasks before they have been employed skirts the edge of legality and may even violate relevant provisions of the Labor Standards Act. According to the Labor Standards Act, all labor performed should receive corresponding compensation, and companies must not require people who have not been employed to perform unpaid labor.
Companies should provide a fair and impartial interview environment and maintain basic respect and courtesy toward every applicant. Only in this way can they attract truly outstanding talent and establish a positive corporate image.
Interviews are an important part of the job-search process. I hope every company will take this seriously and provide a professional, friendly interview environment where applicants can demonstrate their abilities rather than feel exploited and unfairly treated. I hope these practices will prompt companies to reflect and improve, making the workplace more positive and fair.
The pay for long-term care nursing is poor,
And harassment weighs upon the mind.
Even when going to the toilet, they ask about last night’s shift,
Overtime unpaid, rushing in on holidays.
Every day, I see elderly people losing their minds,
While the interview description is entirely different.
Working overtime until nine has become the norm,
And after work, one must report to the elderly person.
To request special leave, one must make a phone call,
And if it is denied, the heart grows colder still.
The hardships of long-term care are many and helpless,
Their bleakness is written into these verses.
The price of a good salary
The information unit is truly great,
The executive assistant’s care is abundant,
Weekend calls never cease,
Work progress weighs heavily on the mind.
Progress is asked about in the restroom,
And even in the break room there’s no escape,
Only under pressure can one show one’s abilities,
Welcome to come here and shine.
The greatest advantages are endless to learn,
Provided you can endure standing alone,
The assistant is busy beneath everyone,
Hard work and learning will ultimately bring hope.
There are no drawbacks
The company’s habit of changing personnel is declining,
They seem to want nothing but money.
They recklessly misinterpret terms and spread false views,
And continue to cause trouble long after employees leave.
Calls on holidays never stop urging,
Complaints pile up with no one to hear them.
Vendors demand things unreasonably,
And meaningless requests disturb people’s sleep.
Internal staff disperse and knowledge is severed,
New hires are dismissed after barely holding on for a month.
The company is indifferent and does nothing,
Going to work feels like entering the depths of hell.
Abusive shouting erupts day and night,
Before the shift even starts, you’re summoned to listen to grievances.
There are many trivial tasks unrelated to the job,
Leaving you mentally and physically exhausted without rest.
My personal advice: think twice before proceeding,
DFD, databases, AI positions—
Entering here will only make you regret your wasted years,
Job seekers should be cautious and stay safe.
A unique training method: you will learn how to handle unreasonable demands and endless complaints—a distinctive form of stress-resistance training.
Experience beyond the scope of your work: you will encounter many tasks unrelated to your job, expanding the boundaries of your skills.
Exceptional time-management skills: faced with incessant phone harassment every day, you will learn how to remain efficient amid chaos.
A master of emotional management: working amid endless abuse and complaints, you will become an expert at managing emotions.
Holiday training camp: working on holidays becomes the norm, helping you get used to staying in work mode at any moment.
Professional long-term-care skills: faced with a supervisor who inexplicably goes berserk, your long-term-care and nursing experience will be put to full use.
A certain company’s change of supervisor has ruined the atmosphere;
They know nothing and only seek money.
They twist and misinterpret terminology,
And continue harassing people long after they have resigned.
Calls on holidays and non-working days are a nuisance,
With endless complaints that chill the heart.
Vendors receive inexplicable requests,
Creating troubles out of nothing.
Internal information is scattered among employees,
And newcomers become unwilling to stay after just one month.
The information gap is as deep as the sea,
Yet the company is indifferent and makes no effort to change.
Going to work feels like entering hell,
With abuse and complaints causing misery.
You are summoned before even starting work,
And bothered by matters unrelated to your job.
Keep this personal advice in mind:
Think twice when job hunting; do not choose lightly.
DFD, databases, AI positions—
Joining this place will only make you regret wasting your years.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Someone calls every day to check on you—what more is there to say?
Have you heard the tragic story of what happened to a certain information department after a new supervisor took over? It really is a fantastical adventure filled with both comedy and tears.
First of all, the new supervisor is like a comedian who knows nothing and can only put on an “I’m the boss” act. Their greatest skill is throwing around a pile of terminology nonsensically while also feeding incorrect ideas to upper management—truly a master of misleading others.
But that’s not even the most outrageous part. Do you think resigning means you can get away from them? Wrong! Even long after you’ve left, they can still use your information to call and harass you for things. This behavior is honestly scarier than a horror movie!
Holidays? They don’t exist! They’ll call and bother you even on non-working days—not to discuss work, but to complain that so-and-so is trying to harm them. The whole thing turns into a complaint club. Is this a company or a psychological counseling center?
Vendors can’t escape this nightmare either. They call vendors on holidays to ask for things, or tell you to harass vendors into making features that don’t even exist, driving the vendors nearly crazy as well. This behavior is truly so absurd that you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Many employees with information technology expertise have already left, and the three remaining people are barely hanging on. New hires leave after only a few months, creating a huge information gap. The company has no intention of addressing these issues. Going to work every day feels like starring in a melodramatic tragedy—you get called in to listen to complaints before your shift even starts, and spend the entire day doing things unrelated to your actual work.
So, if you see job openings related to DFD, databases, AI, low-voltage systems, information security, IT, data, XX centers, and so on, please think twice! Joining will only turn you into the protagonist of the next joke, filling your life with endless comedy and tears.
I hope this experience can serve as a warning and help you avoid falling into a workplace trap like this. Remember to protect your career and mental health, and whatever you do, don’t become the next person driven crazy by the new supervisor.
No disadvantages
You just have to say the IT department is absolutely amazing.
The special assistant will care about you from morning till night.
They’ll even call you on weekends to show you special concern.
You’ll be asked about your progress even when you go to the restroom.
You’ll be asked about your progress in the break room too.
If you can withstand the pressure,
welcome to put on a spectacular performance.
The interview was very quick and short. If they liked you, they arranged the next step right away.
The supervisor thinks they know everything and is quick to judge people based on just one or two sentences. They have very little patience and only want to hear the answers they want to hear. They are stingy and overly calculating about pay, and much of the job description is concealed. There’s a 90% chance they’re just looking for a scapegoat.
Construction sites have a five-day workweek, with public holidays off. Most general construction sites only have six or seven days off per month.
You can leave work on time, and clocking out exactly on the hour is completely fine.
The monthly base salary is high, with actual salary paid as stated, and favorable retirement benefits (the average monthly salary over 15 years is now used for calculation; previously, it was five years).
Very suitable for taking it easy and enjoying a stable later career.
The salary is lower than at general construction companies, and there is almost no year-end bonus. If you happen to receive a one-month year-end bonus, you should consider yourself lucky; most of the time, it is only half a month.
The monthly base salary is high, with actual salary paid as stated, but there are almost no bonuses. (At general construction companies, the base salary is not high, and bonuses make up the difference, resulting in lower monthly salaries but higher annual income.)
The division of labor is very detailed, so cooperation among departments is necessary. Cross-department communication is slow, like working in a government agency—like an old ox pulling a cart. When a construction site is rushing to meet a deadline, it can be maddening.
Very suitable for taking it easy and enjoying a stable later career, but there are many older employees; it is an aging company that pushes young people to the breaking point.
If you want to coast into retirement, you can go to BES Engineering Corporation.
There are lots of useless old-timers; departments constantly pass the buck to one another, and there’s too much garbage.