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Read the community guidelines1. Convenient location—the company is right next to the MRT station exit.
2. You get off work on time.
3. Salary is paid on the last day of the month, so you don’t have to wait until the 5th or 10th of the following month.
4. It’s easy to become a senior employee here; after just one year, you’re considered a senior colleague (because the turnover rate is extremely high XD).
5. It’s very easy to request leave (so it’s a great place for people who want to keep their current job while looking for a better one, just sayin’).
1. The work is quite monotonous, so you’ll quickly experience burnout.
2. It’s very hard on your eyes because you have to look at two computer screens and carefully verify hundreds of records.
3. The department was established only three years ago and is generally made up mostly of younger employees (born in the 1980s or later); the turnover rate is quite high.
4. There is zero career-development potential in this position (international ocean freight data review).
Overall, this company is fairly average and follows the rules. The department to which the position I applied for belongs was established only recently. Although there are SOPs for many things, they are constantly being changed.
The team’s group leader is a female homebody living in her own ivory tower. When training new employees, she talks rapidly at her own pace, assuming that others should understand just by listening once. After finishing the training as if reciting Buddhist scriptures, she leaves new employees to do the practice exercises on their own. More exercises are added every day, and they are timed. After the exercises are completed, another colleague explains them to the new employee. Here’s the important part: after two weeks of practice, the group leader says there will be an assessment. During the assessment, she stands beside you and asks you to demonstrate the operation. However, during practice, they only look at the results; during the assessment, she watches your process. This was something she did not emphasize at the beginning, which means new employees spend two weeks blindly doing the exercises, only to be told at the end: “You used the wrong method.” This is the part I cannot accept. Training new employees should follow a logical sequence; otherwise, everyone is just busywork wasting each other’s time!