Adamska
Last Gunman
True & Honest Fan
kiwifarms.net
Nov 19, 2019

    #840

    Meat Poultry Veg said:
    I have yet another post script on the godawful Chinese company I left eight months ago. You can find my earlier rants here, here and here. The tl;dr version is--working for a Chinese company is miserable and proof that hell and Satan exists and that it's packed to capacity.

    I wouldn't give that shithole a second look, but one of my trainees is still stuck there and seriously languishing. I think about her from time to time especially as she is trying to find a way out. The team at my current job has a vacancy which I'm taking advantage of to help her. (BTW: no romantic intentions on my part--she's married with a son. I get a referral bonus for doing this, but I would do it anyway because I want to deprive my old company of workforce).

    As I expected, the old workplace has seriously deteriorated since I left. My department changed leaders to an engineer who is clueless about molecular diagnostics. They started talking shit about my old boss (to be fair, the guy was a weenie and a brown noser, but I think he suffered from the Peter principle when he would have done better as a normal scientist) but that's moot, since he got a job with a reputable company. They hired an R&D director who was Japanese. I don't know any details about how well THAT has gone, other than questioning the wisdom of hiring a nationality you hate who hates you equally. Anyway I think I would have liked Japanese R&D director guy since apparently he hates the excessive meetings they have (seriously--we'd have three goddamn meetings a week, hour long each!) citing that they are a waste of productivity.

I've found that regular meetings like that are only done so that the management can pretend they're doing something to help and to scope out which person they're going to blame for their own ineptitude.

It's not quite as obvious as "work hard, play hard" (translation: we'll run you to the fucking ground and will reee if you even try to "play"), or "we treat you like family" (translation: we treat you like unpaid help and/or act like you abusive uncle not invited to parties anymore), but it's something to note.

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rcvrd jan 2021