Being a new HTC employee, I had to take a health and safety class. Unfortunately, the class was not offered in English. Even more unfortunately, the HR people decided that my Chinese was probably good enough to take the class. Whether it actually was is debatable, as I got the gist of most of it, while missing a lot of in-domain and formal keywords like "evacuate" and "first aid". At the end of the class was a test, and this I thought I was going to definitely be exempted from because I really can't read that level of Chinese. But no, they had prepared an English version of the test specifically for me. It turned that it was one of these non-tests with questions like "True or false: it is a good idea to follow all safety regulations", so it should have been easy to pass even without having attended the class. But the English was so bad that sometimes it was completely impossible to figure out what they were trying to say. But at the end of the day, if I failed the test, they will tell me, and I'll tell them how bad their English is.
The class made a big deal out of being environmentally friendly and doing things like riding your bike to work and recycling. But when I asked where I could park my bike, the course instructor didn't know, and the next time I visited the kitchen I noticed there was no recycling bin next to the trash can.
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