I'm the kind of questions because more and more times occur, I write just a little bit about how to design for working in my company here. This is certainly not representative, but from conversations with other foreigners who work in similar companies, I know that there is not necessarily different. I also have to do just anything, and write LJ entry looks like this crazy busy: D
anticipation;
I work as the only non-Chinese woman in a Groooooßraumbüro midst of about 53 Chinese in a Chinese company. I law well integrated get no grand externalization and'll even as kuck even we foreigner demonstrated. Which of course has all its advantages and disadvantages, hehe. But I get everything on the table, which has something to do with language. I read e-mail my colleague to the customer in California correction, help the Project Manager the slightly sarcastic e-mail address of customers in Germany to understand, adjust, edit, save and translate here and there that can speak and understand in the eyes of my Project Manager Czech and Portuguese (google translate, anybody: P) and I have to just before Christmas for hours E-Learning Videos cobbled together (and it was decided that Italian is a very terrible language).
Working hours:
9-18 clock with an hour lunch. It used to be that we are more than 3 times a month too late (= 9:01 and later) were allowed to come without penalty. If more than 3 times either a half day annual leave or half a day's pay was deducted. To be late is divided into sections, each 30 minutes, so if I'm late for an hour, the two are schonmal absenteeism.
A few months ago, the company then decided to introduce flexible working hours. That was a brilliant idea, because to come not too late, one would have otherwise schonmal one to one and a half hours before start driving to the Beijing morgentlichen Rush Hour still somewhat ahead of . Come The
has flexible working hours, which regulates a bit. Now we could be 8-10 drifting in the morning and then work corresponding to 8 hours plus 1 hour lunch break. The scheme with the absences of course continue.
We also need to come every day to at least 8 hours. The option, its 40 hours per week "somehow" not fully close it. (Also referred to today, tomorrow, 6 hours and then 10 hours of work, or even for half an hour more for appointment and then the next day for half an hour later, etc. Are not all.)
for medical appointments, you can go half a day off, which can then also paid for a certificate gets. For all other dates or events that would prompt a late arrival, it is either too late or takes something from annual leave.
Overtime: Overtime is
usually not paid and not paid any other way. Unless one logs on before, and sets out the basis of tasks that need to be done, that overtime is mandatory. Then you can either turn hang after work hours or hours, or to sign up for Saturday or Sunday. Weekend there but then only for particularly urgent tasks.
Remuneration designed mostly in the form of exchange leave (Abbummeln so hours), or Sunday work in the form of a double salary.
overtime hours that were not registered and approved will not be considered.
This also has a simple reason:
Many of my colleagues will remain at work until they really need to go from traffic reason or still-fast-to-supermarket-home reasons. They order then here's what to eat in the company and pass the time chatting or surf the Internet.
If all overtime to be walking abgebummelt then to a time account would all sit here until it stops to work ... And that's not natural.
Why do they do that? Most
Colleagues come from somewhere outside. Those are the real Beijing and here have family and friends, are relatively few. Most are there just to work here know, almost no one here except my colleagues who live in cheap rooms, often with even someone as the next bed, and have otherwise not much reason to go after work to go home immediately. So they would rather spend their time here at work.
is given to privacy and free time here for most of a very different role, or not really important.
Many of the younger colleagues who are not married yet, visit after work and on the weekend for training courses (Englisch. ..) or are otherwise active. My A colleague has the 3.1. (New Year's Day) to the same used to make a 3-day English-Crash Course (8 hours per day), my other colleague informed after work and on the weekend for migrant workers' children in a form of voluntary work.
The only people who really go mega always on time and otherwise as little extra time are spent on work that is, drive about 2 to 3 hours to get to home, or in the morning to drive to work. (And I, because I attach importance to my private life)
annual leave:
Do we have 10 working days per year. Precious little, but did not soo bad. I know people who only 6 days per year get, or even less. And for me it is such that for each year of company affiliation, it also has a day off.
annual leave, we can, and the Chinese colleagues, but not free to take snout. For what ever reason there are rules that must be taken per quarter 2.5 days. Leave is not taken, he falls. It is possible to request to postpone the leave, or aufzusparen for special events. For me do not have these. My only special treatment here.
addition to annual leave, but there are still 11 public holidays per year (New Year, Chinese New Year , dead hard , May Day, Dragon Boat Festival , Moon Festival and National Day). Granted each year.
In China it is common for public holidays falling on a weekend to be postponed until the next business day. Therefore, it was the 3.1. We also find a holiday (since 1.1. was a Saturday). With these holidays and some days annual leave can be combined to make schonmal 14 days free. Of course, only if before the whole country is on the way (Chinese New Year and National Day). In addition, there
on Women's Day for all ladies free to half a day. And my company gives the employees the 25.12. as a public holiday (if he have a Day falls). This is not an official holiday, but is regarded by the company as an internal company holiday.
Otherwise of course there is the possibility to take unpaid leave at any time as I want you. But that is often expensive, because there is nothing more then the pay packet.
concludes from this year, my company to the trend that additional days off will be developed by working weekends in order to such a mass public holidays (Chinese New Year has, for example. 3 true holidays, plus 2 day weekend) can be exploited also true without that Annual leave must be sacrificed. In plain language this means that I am 30.1. (Sunday) and at 12.2. (Saturday) to work and then with the actual holidays from 2.2. to 8.2. have free.
That would be super perfect for a trip somewhere, if it were traveling at the time not always the whole of China and the ticket prices were astronomically high. But Well. For the Chinese, who drive at that time almost all of their families, that's good.
annual leave becomes even more wasted here, as used for real trips. 2.5 days per quarter by this scheme is more or less be forced to take time off, even if there is really no reason. Therefore the people take a day off schonmal to go to the doctor, or they come too late 10 times ...
you could leave the also give me .... because in contrast to foreigners in other (foreign) companies, I do not get a holiday home or more vacation days.
Team Building:
favorite word of the department manager. About 8 to 10 times per year, primarily in the summer, it is time for activities on company costs. Then organized a trip for all the management and kutscht the whole office on a Saturday morning somewhere in the Beijing Vallachei. all must participate. On, suspend twice still tolerated, but when it accumulates, then it's schonmal " either ride or take a holiday . Sometimes we go even in the Vallachei, but only to the nearest restaurant. This is of course much more popular. Most colleagues grumble but not because they had something to do eh nothing better. Now on Friday the first is a New Year dinner, and then a karaoke competition. Yay. Not. For dinner, I've signed up, but I fit karaoke times. I must not do this to me: P (As the year is still young and should not be a problem, hehe).
Actually, yes well that the company makes such offers, because otherwise you come out here, so probably not so often out of town. But to make always the same as a requirement for all my struggles a little. It's not that I would never see the other fellow.
We are sitting in a large office space, where everyone sees everyone every day. We're having dinner together in the canteen, make jokes, laugh, work, work together. Since it needs no more forced friendliness. But well. Fortunately, we do not make early morning exercise before work.
The work itself: make
nap, chat and private phone calls urgently allowed! I think when they here msn, skype and the Internet Lock and ban cell phones would be here would want to work any more.
is normal it so that about a cell phone ringing every 5 minutes (of course with the highest volume), team meetings are conducted via schonmal msn and when there is nothing to do is, you actually overshadowed the whole day or just surf on Chinese Facebook.
have to do nothing.
there often. Mostly, we have project work, ie there is a deadline at which the ready is and must be up to the schonmal one or the other on it Saturday. If the project is finished and not supply because there is nothing to do. Then, hours are killed, written by page LJ entries, it is pretended that it would work. But that is perfectly legitimate as long as it looks as though you busy.
Most colleagues use the time also working internally to educate yourself to learn a new programming language, the English language supplement, side jobs (Translate) to do so as long as it's not too noticeable that it has nothing to do, is that ok.
5 minutes nap in between are also legitimate, because by this enormous density of PC in the office fall schonmal eyes. From time to time a snoring also makes nothing. have nothing to do
there are, because for one and the same task is 3 or 4 colleagues are available. I think this is something very Chinese. For one and the same task, and no matter how simple and unimportant, there are more than enough employees who can deal with it. (It's 3 employees regularly come from the hotel where my company has an office in order here in the office to water the plants ...).
It is also not expected that rolls over to something more to get ready quickly, or entirely be a bit much. I initially made the mistake that I do all my tasks - completed as soon as possible - as I knew it from Germany. With the result that I then the rest of the day, oh, the whole rest of the week had nothing to do. For 2 correct PDF pages have been around for 3 days time ... and it does not bother even if one needs a little longer. Everything fits.
If then the project is a bit short but with time, but is also expected to be a bit faster and the best is 3 things at once to make (normal.. really. But this otherwise rather not)
things go here quite slowly. And chaotic , to my mind. I've already somewhat used to it, but sometimes I am left wondering how they get here, anything at all to pass. But that's probably true everywhere.
novel end.
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