This dude. He's a really good employee if you manage to keep him. Once given a task, he learns all the skills needed to finish it quickly and efficiently, all the while looking out for people around him.
Why the fuck did the company try their hardest to torture him?
@Scrwd competency is a curse. When you're the most competent employee, the bosses give you all the important work, with a sliding scale of "important". But usually this competence is never made known beyond your immediate supervisor, so you never actually get paid more to match your workload.
@Scrwd Because in Japan it is about having the appearance of being busy rather than getting things done. For some reason they prefer doing something inefficiently for hours when it can be done in less.
@fresnel149 yep. If you know you are good and starting at a new place, always watch everyone else closely and see how much work on average they do and always match them until you can discover if the company rewards the people who go above expectations. If they don't just do ever so slightly more than the next person so your name won't pop up when it comes time to lay people off. If they do reward employees, show your true skills until you get promoted to a point you are comfortable.
@Scrwd because that's how black companies work in Asia. They'll make sure to get every possible thing out of you just to get the job done on time as fast as possible, it doesn't matter if your good or bad, you'll work till you die because you work for the good of the company, not your own livelihood.
This holds true in the anime industry too, having employees literally falling dead in the office (karoshi) This is the reality of industri jobs in japan and asia