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Read the community guidelinesThe company is rumored to have excellent benefits, but you have to stay for three full years, and the bonus system is a black box. Although the boss is a nice person, he is third-generation wealthy, and the people around him are already packed with __ (fill in the blank) people who control the entire company. Some business divisions are extremely serious and hardworking, but they will occasionally do illegal things; for the sake of performance, everyone has no choice but to go along with it.
Just writing down a few examples
1. Traditional; the atmosphere at work is suffocating. Only HR is allowed to sing loudly there, while everyone else has surveillance cameras at every workstation to admire them.
2. Newcomers are bullied. Seniority is what matters here: whoever came in first wins. Then everyone collectively bullies the newcomers. Newcomers have to endure it until someone newer arrives and gets bullied before they can be free—and by then, they have already become part of the accomplice structure.
3. There have been cases of sexual harassment and workplace bullying at the company. However, if you tell a colleague you trust more, you will hear things like, “I’ve seen people in much worse situations; this is nothing,” or, “You’re really full of negative energy,” or, “You’re overthinking it.” When you finally gather the courage to report it to a supervisor, you discover that the supervisor completely sides with the perpetrator and even tells the woman, “You must have done something to make the married perpetrator entertain such ideas.” Because the perpetrator has greater seniority, simply joining the company first means he wins. Later, when I gathered the courage to tell HR (which is also the contact point for the sexual-harassment hotline), HR was even more biased in favor of the perpetrator (because HR is friends with him). I later learned that the biggest ___ person beside the emperor is HR: they repeatedly magnified the victim’s attendance issues just to force her to resign. The supervisor, HR, and the perpetrator joined forces in their attack—truly excellent representatives of the employer. Fine, they got what they wanted and forced her to resign, and then they still wanted her not to cite these reasons in her resignation or report the matter to the labor bureau.
All of the above was just a dream. If nothing happened, you should be able to get through it safely. In short, the entire organization is an accomplice structure.
4. If you are labeled, you will not even receive those so-called good benefits. I advise you to think carefully about whether you are actually low-profile and whether your abilities are not really that good.
5. The colleague next to me was also dreaming, because due to the nature of the work, everyone works for more than 30 consecutive days without being able to rest. HR will teach you to spread out your absences to evade labor inspections. Then one colleague had used up all their annual leave and happened to test positive and feel extremely unwell, so they wanted to take leave. The supervisor refused, and HR inexplicably would not grant sick leave either. In the end, they struggled to work while sick and nearly died after crashing on the freeway due to dizziness. Of course, everyone is hanging on for the so-called high bonus after three years. This is a place that really needs newcomers to come in, be bullied, and do 90% of the work. If you can make it through and become a veteran who bullies others together with them, then it’s fine!