東新工業股份有限公司

“Most” colleagues are fairly easy to get along with, the environment is uncomplicated, and the company is relatively stable.

1. A certain purchasing team leader surnamed Liu at the company is extremely prone to workplace bullying. I don't know how many people she has driven away, yet she behaves like a completely different person in front of senior management. It's truly hard to respect. For example, when the supervisor isn't in the office, she chats and drinks coffee; as soon as lunchtime arrives, she starts printing, continuing until the supervisor tells her to stop working and eat first. She is extremely good at pretending. She works overtime every day, and any assistant hired also works overtime; even with two assistants, they still work overtime. Yet the company considers employees who voluntarily work overtime like this to be wonderful, without reviewing her efficiency. After the computers were switched to the Windows 10 version, Word stopped saving properly, and she couldn't finish a spreadsheet in half an hour. Lacking ability herself while resenting others who are more capable, she only makes underhanded moves or behaves like an elementary school student engaging in childish exclusion. As soon as a newcomer joins, she takes them to the restroom to assert her authority, saying that they must be responsible for cleaning the restroom from the first day. She has an extremely rigid seniority-based mindset.

2. She wants others to respect her, but she is the most disrespectful person of all. After giving her any materials, you had better keep your own records, because every so often she tells senior management that you did not give her the materials, and then senior management comes to “check in.” (Strangely, if the materials really weren't given to her, why doesn't she just tell the person concerned directly? Once, I caught her saying I hadn't given her something even though I had given it to her two days earlier. When I told her about my records, she couldn't refute them and instead tried to outshout me. She is someone who can only make underhanded moves and is incapable of confronting people directly.)

3. She also borrows other people's computers under the pretext of using them to look up information, but in reality uses them to snoop. The files on my computer had nothing whatsoever to do with her work, and there was nothing she needed or that was related to her duties. She could simply have said that a customer had emailed her and that she needed to check it (because her computer did not have a company email account), but instead she claimed she was looking for information, and I discovered that she was trying to log in secretly to my company's messaging software. I recommend not enabling automatic login.

4. I informed the company's senior management, but the only response was, “Both sides are part of the same family.” All I can say is, “What family?!” I wasn't reporting it because I expected the company to take some major action; I simply hoped the company would not encourage this kind of misconduct. When there is a bully like this, the company also bears significant responsibility.

5. There is no annual salary adjustment; it depends on the owner's mood. If you upset senior management, they can deduct your year-end bonus just like that. Or if you make the purchasing team leader surnamed Liu unhappy, she cries to senior management, and the bonus is deducted just as easily. It is management by personal discretion, with no SOPs or basis for rewards and punishments.

6. The purchasing team leader surnamed Liu secretly opens private parcels. She opened a private item sent to me by a vendor. (The contact person knew it was my birthday and sent me a small gift; it was not a kickback, just a card and a small folded-paper craft. The parcel was marked as private, and I never send personal mail to the company.) When I asked her about it directly, she replied that she wouldn't know whether it contained anything belonging to the company if she didn't open it. She had never opened items previously sent to me by customers, either. I don't know how this could be explained as anything other than deliberate; it was absolutely reprehensible.

7. The company has actually been developing quite steadily. In addition to expanding the plant in recent years, the owner has continued updating the equipment, so the company could be considered quite progressive. (As for the benefits system, I have always been willing to believe that as the company grew, this area could gradually become more comprehensive, including annual individual performance reviews and salary adjustments. Unfortunately, that has not happened. The employee handbook says one thing, but it was written only for the purpose of passing ISO audits. No one dares to take menstrual leave; senior management directly says, “We don't have menstrual leave; it's only written there.” Really?) I think the long-term prospects are worth looking forward to; it's just that a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel.