Ever since everything was outsourced, ethics have started being delegated downward.
HR Lin✠瀅 (Lynn):
It’s very simple: Company S values talent highly. You’re looking at it the wrong way.
You should be flexible. The client’s requirements keep changing, which is why the work is outsourced,
so you should take on even more responsibility. That way, you’ll experience the fulfillment of self-actualization—or whatever that nonsense is.
New hire: But the work and responsibility are all dumped on the outsourced staff. If something goes wrong, it’s still my fault?
HR Lin✠瀅 (Lynn): There’s insurance for everything, and the company’s systems are very comprehensive.
Li✠毓 (Stanley): Remember, if the server doesn’t come up, say it’s an environment issue first;
if it starts and stops immediately, generate something for the client first; even if the parameters are entered randomly, send it anyway and fix it later.
New hire: Isn’t that dangerous?
Xu✠龍: Don’t ask too many questions. The veterans don’t really teach you; they just tell you what to do,
so you have to figure it out and guess for yourself, just like with the old cash-register system.
They only explain things once before the evaluation. If you don’t understand, they say you lack ability.
Li✠源 (James): Follow FIFO, and you might still be accused of putting things in the wrong place;
make one typo, and a supervisor can lecture you for half an hour. Make-up holidays come without make-up pay,
and weekdays are treated as a responsibility-based system—the interview never tells you this upfront.
Li✠毓 (Stanley): When something goes wrong, the rookie takes the blame, and we’re safe.
It’s not that we’re Zhuge Liang, secretly concealing our abilities; otherwise, we’re covered in wounds.
HR Lin✠瀅 (Lynn): Don’t overthink it. This is how everyone grows.
There will even be opportunities to travel to Japan and Jeju Island later, and the company will organize activities too.
New hire: Then where’s the “steak”?
Li✠毓 (Stanley): Ha, that was just talk;
what’s really waiting for you is “all-you-can-eat potstickers and a slap in the face.”
Xu✠龍: When there’s time, you also have to help the supervisor take photos and admire oil paintings,
and listen to a bunch of commands that sound like bird language, as if this were military studies.
Li✠源 (James): Lunch is often just a bread roll, and overtime goes until midnight.
Li✠毓 (Stanley): I see.
Li✠毓 (Stanley): Welcome aboard. The thing most like a vampire bat here
isn’t the system—it’s the people who keep pushing responsibility down, layer by layer.