On my first day at the company, I discovered that the employee handbook wasn't there to protect employees. Behind every line of red text was a tally of the dead.
> Rule 1: Don't work overtime until three in the morning. If you do, whatever you do, don't look out the window.
> Violators: 13 people (disappeared)
I looked by accident. For three seconds. The edges of my employee badge began turning red. Sister Zhang told me that red meant I was in line. The day it turned completely red, I would receive a letter: Come in for overtime three days from now.
Then I'd become another number in the handbook.
> But I don't want to become a number.
I started keeping track of the rules. Testing them. Looking for loopholes. Then I realized: the rules aren't meant to be obeyed. They're meant to be understood. Once you understand them, you can turn the tables.
