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1. You are frequently required to do work outside your job responsibilities.
2. A small number of colleagues will ask you to do things for them; if you refuse, they will show you their displeasure.
3. Senior managers will criticize employees and brag, saying, “When I was young, I already knew how to do these things. Why don’t you know how to do them even at your age?”
4. Senior managers will verbally bully employees. It is understandable to criticize employees for improper behavior in the workplace, but they will also bring up issues concerning their family upbringing.
5. A small number of employees take advantage of their familiarity with supervisors to ask you to do work that is part of their own responsibilities. After you help them, they will take credit with the supervisor without mentioning you. If the process does not go smoothly, they will use you as a scapegoat and have you reprimanded as well.
6. The work atmosphere is strange, with loud arguments frequently breaking out over minor matters.
7. Some colleagues are difficult to get along with.
8. Colleagues will ask you for help, but you cannot ask them for help, because you will be blamed for lacking workplace ethics and morality, among other things.
9. The company does not allow you to clock in for the first 30 minutes of overtime.
10. The company does not proactively give pay raises, and discussing salary will invite gossip.