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1. Once—once, once (it is very important to say it three times)—the company’s internal colleagues were harmonious and autonomous, brave enough to express their personal opinions, with room for discussion as well as standards for checks and balances.
2. Once—once, once (it is very important to say it three times)—there was a weekly reading group where people shared good books and discussed them as a group. Now no one speaks, and the quality of the reports has declined.
3. Interview travel expenses—if you care about that little bit of money.
4. Birthday parties—if you love eating PIZZA every month. There is no cash gift.
1. (Heard, rumored, dreamed) The infighting among the Brand Division managers is severe. If you follow the wrong boss, even taking a drink of water is wrong, and breathing air is criticized as wasteful. No matter what you do, you can never meet the standard. Such an excessively high standard may make you wonder: Uh, am I working at Ogilvy or the Presidential Office?
When you ask, “What needs to be improved?” the answer you get will be: “I just don’t like it. It’s so ugly, so terrible! Who would buy it!” (The same as my five-year-old niece’s opinion of toys.)
2. Decisions never make any sense, and you are not allowed to question them.
3. In just half a year of organizational planning, no one knows how many times people have been transferred. The job responsibilities are more chaotic than Taipei’s Linsen North Road, and again, you are not allowed to question them.
4. On the one hand, they tell subordinates how stupid and incompetent the boss is; on the other hand, they tell the boss that the subordinates are not capable enough, while their former colleagues are so strong, excellent, and high-caliber. You might assume those former colleagues worked at Ogilvy, the Presidential Office, or a Fortune 500 company. Wrong! They came from an online apparel retailer you may never have heard of in your entire life. And so, the original colleagues were gradually sidelined, had their positions hollowed out, and were placed on the redundancy list. Then, the former colleagues from the online apparel retailer appeared one by one—an impostor replacing the rightful heir.
5. Among the current Brand Division managers, few capable people remain. The rest are very good at spouting nonsense; apart from solid flesh around their bellies, you can’t see much ink. When decisions need to be made, they disappear, but as soon as subordinates have made the decisions, they immediately reappear. This is not an urban legend!
6. Dear job seekers, this place was once full of talented people. However, if you were not obedient, you could only be schemed out, wasting your talent. Still, as long as you follow the right boss, flatter the right person, and cling tightly to the right powerful connections, there are benefits: milk tea and fried chicken cutlets served to you. Before long, your belly will also be filled with solid....
The story is too long to finish; to be continued in the next installment.