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Xinshijie Integrated Marketing Company

Basically, there are no advantages. However, everyone is exploited, so the only benefit is that it is easy to find colleagues who share a sense of solidarity.

Xinshijie Integrated Marketing Company

I worked at this company as a program production planner. It is located near Jing'an Station and has been operating for more than 20 years, but it has always remained very small—definitely never more than 20 people. Why is that? Because the company is simply terrible.

Basically, there are no advantages. However, everyone is exploited, so the only benefit is that it is easy to find colleagues who share a sense of solidarity.

The disadvantages really cannot be covered in three days and three nights.

1. (Company system: No clocking in or out; scheduled hours are 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.)

Don't believe the company's nonsense. If you arrive after 9:30, the boss and the sales staff will constantly mock and criticize you. Also, no one's workload can realistically be completed before the end of the workday, so working until 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. is considered normal. I have even encountered situations where people were still not off work at 11:00 p.m. Not to mention the teams that go out for filming: they may leave at 5:00 a.m., return to the company at 8:00 p.m., and leave again at 5:00 a.m. the next day. As for overtime pay? Sorry, since there is no clocking in or out, there is no overtime pay.

2. (The company guarantees employees holiday bonuses, year-end bonuses, bonuses for the three major traditional holidays, incentive bonuses, and performance bonuses.)

You must actually have completed a full year of employment to receive a year-end bonus. For example, if you joined on March 1, 2017, you would have to wait until Lunar New Year in 2019 to receive your year-end bonus. What about the 2018 bonus? Sorry, since you had only been employed for 11 months at Lunar New Year, you would not receive one.

They basically pretend not to know about the three-holiday bonuses; they will only give them if you bring them up. If you do not mention them, the company acts as if they do not exist.

The rest of the bonus system is all nonsense.

3. (Public holidays are observed whenever a statutory holiday falls on a red-marked date, strictly in accordance with the Labor Standards Act.)

Basically, the situation described in point one happens every day, so do not expect this company to follow the Labor Standards Act. As for holidays, I have encountered people who took only five days off in an entire month and accumulated the remaining days, then took only five days off again the following month. The leave keeps accumulating and can never be fully taken. What if a sales representative contacts you while you are on leave? Don't worry—the boss will tell you to finish the work at home. The day will still be counted as leave, while all telephone charges and other expenses incurred are entirely your responsibility. The company will not cover them.

4. (Complete one unit of business work per day.)

This is basically possible, because one person is usually responsible for five, six, or seven tasks, and new work is added every day. So if you do not finish today's work, you have to work overtime; otherwise, it piles up for tomorrow, when new work will also arrive. It really never ends. Even if you complete it, do you think something produced in such a short time can have any quality? You may ask whether there is a work schedule. Sorry, the work schedule is for reference only, and changes to the day's assignments happen almost every day.

5. (The company's business scope is diverse.)

This is also true. Its main areas of business are events, tender projects, and travel-oriented commercial programs. The scope is unbelievably broad. Basically, they have done everything you can think of: organized crime, direct selling, scam groups—as long as someone is willing to pay, they will do it. They completely disregard professional ethics and constantly challenge employees' professional standards. Their business covers the entire country. You might film in Miaoli today, be sent to Chiayi the day after tomorrow, and then be sent to Hualien the following day. Traveling around the island two or three times a month is absolutely possible. As for tender projects, they simply fire blindly in every direction: whenever there is a tender, they tell you to write the proposal. Even if you already have a heavy workload, the boss will still tell you to write it. He always likes to order you to finish it at the very last moment before the deadline. If you cannot do it, he will loudly berate you and say that you are responsible. Sometimes I really want to ask the boss: “Can you complete a week's worth of work in half a day?”

6. (The company is well organized.)

Don't be ridiculous! This is also complete nonsense. Starting with the boss: he is a veteran and claims to have a lot of experience, but after working as a production assistant for only a few months, he went straight out and started a company. He is always flaunting his EMBA degree, which was essentially bought with money. Don't assume that what the boss says is sometimes reasonable; it is actually a smokescreen to cover up how unqualified he is. To put it plainly, his more than 20 years of experience are fake. He does not understand the communications industry at all and has no idea how it operates. The sales department only makes calls and takes on business; once they get a project, they dump it on the planning team and wash their hands of it. When it comes to budgets, they constantly squeeze their own staff, so people often end up paying out of pocket. As for the planning team, there is a team leader who always assigns himself the easiest work. He sleeps at work every day and sleeps during location shoots as well. He angers clients and then argues with them, and he only ever does half of each task, so whoever takes over his work practically has to start over. He also sexually harasses female colleagues at work. His work efficiency is far lower than everyone else's. Guess what happened to him in the end? He received a NT$5,000 raise, while everyone else continued to be exploited by the company. The editing team never goes out either. Whenever the editing is poor, they blame the planner for writing a bad script. They are extremely self-important, like frogs at the bottom of a well, unaware of what the outside world is like and convinced that their inadequate editing skills are everything. Worse, they receive high salaries. As for discipline, don't even mention it: they drink at work and ○ ○ in the office, truly treating the workplace like a hotel.

In short, this is a company with no discipline whatsoever, where the boss acts according to his mood and everything is completely chaotic.