京城運動用品社

Occasionally provides employees with snacks. “Occasionally” means about once every one or two months.

You can learn basic appliance repair.

You can strengthen your mental resilience, build physical stamina, and gain an understanding of society.

Deliveries are fairly relaxed.

Both the male and female owners are malicious and two-faced, and very good at lying. They appear kind and approachable on the surface, but after spending more time with them, their true nature becomes apparent. The male owner likes to describe things in an exaggerated way and embellish them, never satisfied unless what he says is shocking. The two owners often gossip with friends or senior employees, discussing other people behind their backs. They flatter the wealthy and look down on ordinary working people. These friends and employees have personalities much like the owners, completely confirming the saying that “birds of a feather flock together.”

The work is extremely complicated, and the shop is very cramped and cluttered. Even the restroom is extremely small—by “extremely small,” I mean it is somewhat difficult even to wipe yourself after using the toilet.

It is commonplace to make one person do the work of two or three. The owner will teach you how to repair machines, which sounds nice at first because you can learn something. However, you rarely get the chance to properly finish repairing a machine, because you will be interrupted halfway through to serve customers or help unload goods. You might think it is fine if the repair is unfinished because you can continue after things calm down—but that is completely wrong. Not only is there no designated repair area, but repairs are done sitting on the floor. Since repairing machines involves removing screws, the owner will tell you to put all the screws and parts in a cardboard box so they do not get lost. But a cardboard box is completely unsafe, especially when it is placed on the floor. The slightest kick can knock it over. Given how cramped and cluttered the shop is, it is very common for the box of screws and parts to be accidentally kicked over and its contents scattered everywhere. If a screw goes missing afterward, it becomes your problem. He is so frugal that he is unwilling to spend even a few dollars on a sturdier plastic cup to use for repairs. If something goes missing, it is supposedly your problem and has nothing to do with him, because he did provide you with a damn cardboard box.

The owner often blames employees for his own mistakes and oversights.

For example, he often gives only half of an explanation, or tells you to do something without giving clear instructions. If you do it incorrectly, he will not lose his temper, but will be certain that it was your fault. Alternatively, he may ask you for an answer without first asking you to conduct any investigation or preparation, or he may constantly forget and misplace things, then ask you where they are, treating you as if you were a mind reader.

He does not trust his employees.

Only the owner’s family members are allowed to operate the cash register. As a result, customers have to wait for the owner to finish whatever he is doing before their payments can be processed and change given. Customers often repeatedly urge them to hurry or become upset, and the resulting trouble always falls on the employees and customers.

The owner is extremely petty, miserly, and stingy.

If you do not carefully check your pay, you will be taken advantage of. When an underpayment is discovered, the owner will even pretend not to understand and say things like, “We’re all family here, so don’t worry about it,” along with other such bullshit.

Overtime only counts if it exceeds 30 minutes, but usually, before you have worked the full 30 minutes, the owner’s wife will hypocritically remind you that you can go home.

They try to save and keep everything. The shop is full of piles of things that appear to be recyclables. For example, many of the products in the shop are used items or parts removed from broken machines. The owner simply repackages and reorganizes these products, then sells them at the original price.

Because of the owner’s personality, the work equipment is also terrible. For example, the cleaning tools are clearly unusable, yet he insists that they can still be used and demands that you clean properly, making unreasonable demands. The handcart is also in terrible condition: its wheels easily jam when carrying heavy loads, so you have to put in extra effort to move it. Yet you frequently have to transport heavy loads back and forth along the busy Zhongyang South Road.

As for work supplies, he is only willing to provide one or two pairs of gloves. Once they get dirty, you have to wash them yourself and reuse them. If you want a new pair, you either have to insist aggressively or buy them at your own expense. He has absolutely no consideration for employees. Incidentally, even if you manage to insist on getting a new pair, he will still give you a sour face. In short, the owner does not take any of this seriously, believing that it represents thrift and is a virtue. You are not allowed to complain; if you do, he will merely brush you off.

Base salary of 26,000

Four days off per month, fixed Sundays

Occasionally shares a few snacks with employees.

When the Yancheng District branch is doing well and short-staffed, it recruits front-of-house staff; when business is poor, it goes to great lengths to find excuses to fire people.

First, are you mentally prepared to be treated like a urinal?

As for the male owner's lack of decorum, no labor insurance, excessive workload, being required to work during typhoons, no overtime pay, wages that cannot be discussed, and so on—those are stories that could go on forever...

Since I am not familiar with the second branch and do not want to unfairly implicate anyone, I have reluctantly given it an average rating.

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4 days off per month, 12 hours