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Read the community guidelinesThis is probably the most sophisticated part of how this system operates: it doesn’t need to directly deny you; it only has to make you slowly doubt yourself, and that’s enough.
Recently, I saw Education and Training King Jia X once again bring up the story of mentor Sol in a retrospective. The familiar formula is still the same: first, re-edit the past into a glowing recollection, then turn someone else’s experience into your own endorsement, and smoothly bring out a seemingly systematic circle from the past at Taipei Fubon Bank. They call it passing on a legacy, but it looks more like precisely allocating resources and benefits; they call it inspiration, but it is really just expressing vague ideas in a way that makes everyone think they are talking about them.
At first, they give you a lifeline, making you feel that you are finally understood and seen; then they use incentive bonuses to ignite expectations, making people believe that they can quickly turn their lives around as long as they follow the right rhythm. But once you truly commit, you gradually discover that it is more like an elegantly packaged medicine bag, covered with claims about its effects while glossing over the side effects.
What you should really be looking at is not these stories, but the details that are deliberately overlooked—for example, the records and totals of personal leave, official leave, and sick leave within a year. These cold, hard numbers should be recorded as evidence of other people’s diligence; they are more honest than any moving narrative. Yet when you raise these questions, you are often led to believe that your understanding is biased, and may even begin to wonder whether you are not working hard enough or are not committed enough.
The overall atmosphere is like riding a YouBike to watch a game between the Wei Chuan Dragons and the CTBC Brothers Elephants. The Wei Chuan Dragons are gradually adjusting their pace amid rebuilding, while the CTBC Brothers Elephants and Shin Kong are finding new ways to play amid change. By contrast, this place is like a team still trapped in outdated tactics: its tempo is sluggish, its atmosphere stagnant, and the whole environment is permeated by an indescribable lifelessness.
Jia X’s approach is consistent: announcing a vision by calling people out in group chats at night without notice, while vacation time is endlessly eroded; they call it cultivation, but it looks more like a test of obedience. Promotions are slow, administrative procedures are lengthy without any visible optimization, and workloads are unevenly distributed, yet tasks are still expected to be completed within unreasonable time frames. From Xingju Dian, Xiaolong Cuisine, Tainan yi mein, Liu Mama Cold Noodles, and Liu Family Cold Noodles, all the way to Dongyin Quick Swordsman, Wuji Stone Hot Pot, and Wanfang Ice Room, it may appear on the surface to be concern for people’s lives and an attempt to build closeness, but in reality it looks more like binding people firmly to the same rhythm until every bit of room to breathe is exhausted.
When you try to advocate for a reasonable pace, you are instead labeled. Over time, many people are not persuaded but worn down. Eventually, even their most basic judgment begins to waver, and they may even attribute the problem to themselves.