Workplace reviews and discussion: 華藝數位股份有限公司

Occasionally, you can drink wine from the red wine department (the wine tastes pretty good).

1. According to company policy, overtime is not paid; you can only take compensatory leave. → But if work is busy and your supervisor thinks you are not tired enough or are not qualified, sorry—you will not get to take it.

2. Asking for leave feels like facing an oral examination committee. If you ask for leave to go out and have fun, there is an 80% chance it will be rejected. If you come up with a good “sick” excuse, it will probably be approved. → Taking leave here is not a right unless you are sick.

3. If your supervisor happens to have a fit, be careful. Whenever they suddenly think of something, they will order you around like a personal secretary and make you do things outside your job responsibilities. → For example, asking you to buy a birthday present after work so that the supervisor can curry favor with someone higher up.

4. Your supervisor appears to accept suggestions (and sometimes genuinely does), but most of them will hit one of the supervisor’s landmines, leaving people unsure whether they should express their opinions. → Meetings are like funerals: almost no one wants to speak or even look at the supervisor.

5. Because the supervisor is such a disaster, the department’s work environment is overflowing with negativity every day. You can often hear someone slamming down a phone. → Job seekers who care a lot about workplace atmosphere and mental well-being are genuinely advised not to come.

6. As long as you have been here for less than a year, you are not treated like a person. It is very difficult to take personal leave, and even overtime is hard to report. → As a result, it is also difficult to accumulate compensatory leave hours; besides, even if you have compensatory leave hours, you may not be able to take them.

7. They still retain the old system of a three-month probationary period (and of course, there is a difference in salary). This old system is included in the company regulations, and the documents you are asked to fill out before joining require you to agree to it.

8. Even after passing the “probationary period”—and even just a few days before you are due to visit clients—the supervisor still refuses to give you a business card. If the other party wants to exchange business cards on the day of the client visit, the awkwardness is your problem; the supervisor will not consider it. → I personally attach great importance to this. First, it makes me lose face in front of clients. Second, it is very clear that the supervisor does not regard me as part of the team—regardless of how nicely the supervisor spoke before or how much they said they valued me, failing to do this proves that the supervisor was just talking nonsense.

That’s all—I just wrote this off the top of my head. This is purely a personal impression and an outlet for my feelings; please excuse the casual style.

I have already resigned. If any former colleagues recognize me, please keep it discreet. Thanks.