Workplace reviews and discussion: 普拉瑞斯創意整合有限公司

My supervisor is fairly considerate toward subordinates. When requesting leave, they approve it readily without making a fuss. They are one of the few normal people in the company, although they probably will not stay much longer either.

1. On your first day, you will sign many agreements, including an unreasonable non-compete clause.

2. On the surface, the company uses a clock-in system, but in practice it operates on a responsibility-based system, with “absolutely no overtime pay.”

The supposedly all-purpose online EIP system does not even have a way to submit overtime applications. When you join the company, you will be forcibly added to numerous LINE groups, and you will also be expected to reply to LINE messages after work. If a boss or supervisor asks something in a group and you do not respond, you will definitely be publicly berated.

3. The interview tells you one story, but the reality after you join is completely different.

You can find out what this company does by simply Googling it. During the interview, they claim there will be training, but the training does not address the company’s “plastics and rubber industry” at all. There is very little useful internal company material either. I once dreamed that I was chatting with coworkers, who said the boss claimed to have worked in the industry for more than a decade. But when asked about industry knowledge, the boss actually did not understand much.

Oh, right! They do not provide the training they are supposed to provide, nor properly teach you how to use the online system. Instead, they tell you to watch a bunch of videos supposedly serving as training, but the content is actually presented by the boss and is all nonsense. Some of the concepts are even wrong.

Most importantly, if you leave before completing one week of employment, they will not pay you! They claim that training has already been provided—and will charge you for it!

4. Meetings with the boss or the boss’s wife are extremely painful. They speak with no logic, and what they say has nothing to do with the meeting topic. They often ramble from one subject to another for two or three hours. I have personally listened to three hours of nonsense during work hours, but when I summarized the key points, there were fewer than five minutes’ worth; the rest was the boss preaching and building up their own image. I have seen a supervisor clock in, go inside, and come out to eat. The longest record I have heard of was someone going in at the start of work, talking for eight hours, and coming out at the end of the day.

5. For a boss who specializes in exhibition projects and design, this boss has poor communication skills. What they need are mind readers and people who can crawl inside their head. Any idea they cannot articulate is brushed aside with “You should understand me, know me, and keep up with my way of thinking,” which they use to question your abilities and work efficiency.

In addition, when working on a design or project, if you ask for direction at the beginning, they will have no ideas whatsoever. After you submit the second or third draft, they will suddenly become an “idea person,” and then you will have to make four or five, or even five or six, rounds of revisions. In the end, you get: “You should understand me, know me, and keep up with my way of thinking.”

6. Although the people at the top emphasize “being on the same page,” communication between departments is extremely closed off. Everyone is afraid of meddling in other people’s business, and everyone is afraid of making trouble for themselves.

7. There is no single point of contact for work, so efficiency is poor and progress is slow. You have to wait until everyone agrees before a project can be outsourced.

After a work is produced, it has to be posted in the group for all the senior people to review. Basically, if not everyone approves it, that is when there will be many problems later and you will be publicly berated. Alternatively, even if everyone has reviewed it and found no problems, as soon as the boss reverses the decision or says something, everyone will then turn against you together.

8. I have encountered some very capable female supervisors, but some of the female supervisors at this company are infuriatingly emotional, to the point where communication is completely impossible.

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Conclusion:

Entry-level pay, but they want outstanding professionals—and minds that blindly follow orders.