An experience of being deceived

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With nothing to do today, I’m writing on the forum about my experience with a highly dishonest company during the Spring Festival. A few years ago, I was employed as a Quality Supervisor. Since I don’t pay much attention to the quality of my company’s products, I plan to change jobs after the New Year. Next, I searched online for companies that might be a good fit for me, and then I received a phone call asking me to come for an interview for the position of quality engineer. Since it was roughly the same as my salary at that time, and it was only about 10 minutes away from home, I thought it was great, so I took time off just to go there. It started with a personnel interview, during which the company was introduced; it is said to be a wholly Australian-owned company. There is currently a vacancy for a quality manager position, which suggests good prospects for my career development. After that, there was an interview with the general manager, and it seemed that both parties agreed on all aspects. The requirement of working on the production line for 2 months as well as various benefits were all discussed and agreed upon. I promised to come back to work after the New Year. Because I found a new job that meets my requirements in many aspects. So I plan to resign, because considering that I will start working at the new company after the New Year, I need to resign from my current company before that time. When resigning, after being persuaded several times, he mentioned that he wanted to go home to be with his wife and children; it seemed that I would be the one to take over as manager, but in the end he still refused. The general manager tried to keep me as well, asking if my salary wasn’t satisfactory, but I declined politely. Since I resigned before the New Year’s holiday (about 1 month before Chinese New Year), I didn’t receive any year-end bonus either. In short, to move to a new workplace, there are significant losses in terms of both finances and career prospects. The tragic events began... After the New Year, I went to report for duty at my new company. On my first day at the production line, I was impressed by how poor the quality of that line was; when installing the components, it was necessary to use a file to shape them and a hammer to strike them. After it is assembled into a finished product, it’s necessary to use a hammer to strike it... It’s not some company owned solely by Australians; at most, it’s a private business run by a Shanghainese person who moved to Australia. I felt a bit cheated at that time. It’s better not to think about it; since we’re here, we should just accept things as they are and let everything improve gradually. I. At first, it was fine; after getting to know the production line, I learned about various production processes and techniques. One day, an inspector took leave and couldn’t come to work, so the supervisor asked me to temporarily take over his role and inspect all the products. Here’s the problem... At the beginning of testing the products, since I’m not familiar with them nor with the tools used, the speed will definitely be slow. But as I gain more experience over time, the speed will surely increase significantly. I didn’t expect the HR manager to talk to me the next day; she said that someone had complained that I worked too slowly... I felt frustrated. After thinking it over, I realized it must have been that supervisor who reported me. When you start working on something you’re not familiar with, how can you work quickly? Besides, is it really that important to work fast? Did you see the speed I tested after 10 minutes? I objected at the time, and in the end the HR department said nothing more; they just told me to be more careful next time, and that’s how it ended. II. It’s been a week now, and suddenly the HR department asked me to write a summary report on the quality situation of the production line, saying it was for the general manager. I thought to myself at the time, I had only been here for a week and had only come into contact with a few job positions; how could I possibly write a summary report on the company’s quality situation in just one week? What on earth is this HR person doing... In the end, out of necessity, I wrote a report of about 1,800 words based on what I knew up to that point. The report mainly covered the issue of low qualification rates among suppliers’ deliveries, as well as the fact that no effective corrective actions had been taken. The setting of critical dimensions for incoming material and in-process inspections is unreasonable, failing to serve an effective purpose. The product itself requires design improvements. After finishing it, I gave it to the HR department, and after a while, the vice president came to see me. They said what I wrote made sense and was relevant to the current problems facing the company, but some points shouldn’t be expressed too directly; the tone should be a bit more subtle. For example: If the inspection instruction manual is of no use, it should be changed to requires improvement. The defect rate of the materials supplied by the vendor is too high; it should be stated instead that the defect rate does not meet our company’s requirements... I’m frustrated once again. But he was the vice president, so he said it should be changed however he wanted, and in the end it was changed according to his wishes. III. About 10 days later, while I was walking around the production line, the HR department called me upstairs. Someone with a very serious expression said to me, \"Xiao Huang, it seems from the production line that you’re unwilling to do this task or that one...\" I felt frustrated once again; my purpose was originally to understand the production processes and the product manufacturing procedures in order to identify measures for improvement. Besides, no one has asked me to do anything specific; even if I want to work, there’s no work for me to do. I got angry right away. I was already familiar with the production process on the assembly line; no one assigned me any specific tasks, so where does such a claim come from? If you think about it, this claim makes no sense at all. You said you just listen with your ears and don’t need to use your eyes to see... And what happened next was even funnier: the HR department asked me to take over a tester’s role. According to him, that product is the company’s flagship product, and it needs to be inspected 100%, as there have been many complaints from customers recently, so he asked me to carry out those inspections. Well, that’s one thing; later they said the salary should be adjusted to match the standard for inspectors. And they also made me work overtime on the production line. It talks about the role of prayer in management and oversight as a manager. It became even more popular at that time; it was incredibly popular... I immediately asked him, are you doing this to reduce costs for the company? Didn’t you hear how I talked to the general manager during the interview? You said before that I was slow at testing; can you become as skilled as the testers just by going down to do the testing now? The production line suggests that I’m unwilling to do work. Besides learning about the company’s products and processes, is there anything else I should do? I used to be a supervisor, and now they want me to work as an inspector. Would you be willing to do that if it were you? Then he took out the previous company supervisor’s business card from his wallet and threw it at her. There’s nothing more to say. I’ll come in tomorrow to submit my resignation letter and then go home. I went to complete the resignation procedures the next day, and the HR staff said the boss wanted to talk to me. I told them there was nothing to discuss, so I refused outright. The funniest thing was that when I was writing down the reason for leaving, she came over to take a look, but I still wrote down a personal reason. Just out of pity for this old woman... It was only later, after going through the hiring process, that I found out there were others who had similar experiences to mine: things seemed fine during the interviews, but then the HR department would find ways to point out faults in you. Although I have now found a new job, this experience is one that I find difficult to forget, so I’m writing it down to vent my feelings... I hope it can serve as a reminder for those who are planning to change jobs.