I recently moved to a new job with about the same role, but I feel the culture of the new place is hard for me to adopt.

1. My previous role was a 8 to 5 one with clock in and clock out with weekends totally no disturbance. I was in it for 10 years.

2. The new place practices a flexi and no clock in or clock out but the other people work till late at nights (12am still receiving emails and sometimes as early as 7am,il I get emails too) and also weekends they remotely work and I receive emails as well. It's giving me anxiety as to when another email might suddenly come.

I don't feel the salary jump is worth it.

I just started for about a month plus, so any advice? Should I like ask management about it? And the perks seems to be a little lesser than my previous company.

Well, the salary and all yes but the requirement to work on weekends with little to no compensation is something that I did not expect. My previous company gave 1 day replacement leave and a rm25 meal allowance for working more than 4 hrs on a Saturday or Sunday but here, they only give a measly rm100 for working on Saturdays or Sundays per day. Not being petty but I'd like to keep my weekends to my own but it seems there are certain compulsory weekends that need to work but not even a single cent compensation as these are "mandatory weekends"

This i agree but not when a whatsapp comes few mins after receiving the email asking if I did receive or not. I don't like them throwing balls around like "OH, I sent you de no longer my responsibility" kind of thing.

Not remote. You need to be at the office from 8am to 12pm or some days are 10am to 4pm. Both only gets me rm100 per day and nothing else. Counting from my net salary and divide even 30 days, this rm100 isn't even covering half a day. And that's only if you are not working on that weekend day. The company has a policy of alternate Saturdays we have to work (on standby remotely) for half a day and if that's the case, the compensation isn't given on those days.

And I don't know if it's considered a China man company but it feels like it.

This post has been edited by redracer2004: Nov 1 2025, 07:13 AM

Actually no, I was not told on these and other things like because many old people here who refuse to take on certain tasks, the management might coerce younger staffs to do those tasks which is not within the supposed job scope.

Also, another thing the assistant head lied to me was in the interview with her, she told me they hiring for senior and that I get to skip some formalities from going in as a junior but after I came in, she told me she asked me if I wanted a junior slot or a senior slot and I chose a senior slot. I wasn't even given a choice to choose at first.

Previous job has some survival issues like not enough customers to maintain the business etc. I am worried I be out of job later.

I mean can argue and go labor office but it will bring me bad rep in future no?

Would all employers really tell their working culture? It was my mistake to not see Glassdoor reviews before joining. Thought it had some fame, it should be good but it seems they are also having issues hiring people as well now, so I think I am the newest kambing korban around.

I did and know about it. Now I learned something new and I had to really heed from it.

From what I heard of my AM and M, their only aim is to complete the tasks at hand. So if they send us something in the middle of the night, they do expect a reply but since there are two factions divided here, one group of staffs who are from Branch A will be scared and reply. Branch B people don't really care so it is showing weirdness here.

Trust me, my side does too and it isn't pretty.