Workplace reviews and discussion: 台中商業銀行股份有限公司

The worst part is that many supervisors lack the abilities appropriate to their positions. All day, they do nothing but use their own misguided ideas to put down employees who are smarter and more capable than they are. The coworkers are no better: relying on having been there longer and being more familiar with the work, they look down on new employees. Even though they themselves have provided absolutely no guidance on how to do the day-to-day work, whenever a junior employee asks a work-related question, they immediately start yelling, “You graduated from XX University and you still don’t know how to do this?” I would like to know which university teaches students how to operate all of your company’s various systems.

HR really likes hiring graduates of national universities, but then also likes to act as though “graduating from XX University isn’t anything special” in order to put down the employees they regard as “highly educated.” As a result, the turnover rate among “highly educated” employees is very high. People with ability and brains cannot stand staying in a place like this. The ones left behind are graduates of diploma mills who cannot find other jobs and old-timers who cling to their positions and refuse to leave.

The promotion system is extraordinarily obstructive as well. You can barely get promoted one rank even after meeting every requirement, such as obtaining N designated certifications, reaching a fixed level of seniority, and passing the promotion exam. After being tormented by coworkers and supervisors every day, who has the time and energy to prepare for all that? But failing to get promoted causes problems too! Supervisors constantly nag, saying, “You’ve reached the required seniority—why haven’t you gone for a promotion?” and so on. And no matter how many times I get promoted, I still can’t become one of those well-paid supervisors, because all the supervisory positions are occupied by old-timers like you. Rather than spending so much time and money to earn a tiny bit more pay, I would rather spend that time on my own leisure and entertainment—it would be much more worthwhile.