Workplace reviews and discussion: 晨星出版有限公司

First, let me talk about the advantages of working for Taichung’s largest publisher:

1. Employees can purchase books from the group: the first book at 40% of the original price, the second at 60%.

2. As long as you manage your schedule well, there is no need to work much overtime.

3. One month’s year-end bonus.

4. Occasional group meals.

5. NT$1,000 gifts for the three major holidays.

6. More books than you can finish reading.

7. Editors can outsource work to themselves to give themselves a raise (one chief editor found a proxy and outsourced the work to themselves).

The disadvantages mainly stem from the company president and owner:

1. Policies change constantly.

2. A 60-year-old insists on setting up a website, and instructions change from morning to night (three web administrators have already left).

3. A graduate of Tunghai University’s Department of Economics, they want many things to be quantified and put into tables.

4. They often paint a rosy picture and describe a wonderful vision, but in reality, none of it exists.

5. They tolerate employees who behave like pigs (a book had already been under contract for five years, but when the contract period ended, it still had not been published).

6. Employees who behave like pigs usually cause trouble for others.

7. The company president tells you to carry something out in direction A. When you obediently follow instructions and the result is poor, they blame you, saying: “If you thought it wasn’t good, you should have brought it up!” instead of taking responsibility for accepting the result themselves.

8. You are expected to support weekend activities (book signings), so you have already sacrificed your weekend (with no overtime pay), yet your performance review is still rated poorly.

9. That’s right—there is no overtime pay.

10. You pay your own retirement contribution (the employer’s 6% is paid by you, while you do not actually make your own separate 6% contribution).

That’s all.