Workplace reviews and discussion: 日創社文化事業有限公司

1. As the lowest-status department in this publishing house, the editorial department gets along especially well.

2. Working as a graphic designer at this publishing house is great. When there are no projects, you can take as much leave as you like; when there are projects, you get a share of the money.

3. Only the graphic designers are allowed to play music.

4. Only the planners are allowed to browse online shops during work hours.

5. All the work gets dumped on the editorial department. Come apply for any job except editor!

6. Although you’re an editor, you also have to know how to do planning, PR, run events, sing, dance, and possess many, many other skills to keep clients happy. You’ll learn a lot of things (even though there are already planning and PR positions).

In theory, everyone is here to make a good book. Is there really a need to rank people by status?

Oh, apparently there really is.

Because the VP is from the graphic design side of the organization, she thinks graphic design is great, graphic design is awesome, graphic design is the best, and every graphic designer is a little sweetheart who should be cherished in the palm of your hand.

Editors, hmph, all they do is read articles and write words. How hard could that be? So I don’t care how much experience you have: all editors get NT$28,000, including the transportation allowance, so if you’re late, you’re down to NT$26,000! Take half a day of sick leave, and you’re down to NT$24,000! Take half a day of personal leave, and you’re down to NT$22,000! So I don’t care if you’re halfway through writing a manuscript or halfway through proofreading it—if I tell you to go meet a client in Hsinchu right now, immediately, you have to go! Because I got the time the client was coming to pick up the manuscript wrong and am going to get yelled at, you have to go get yelled at in my place! Because I don’t want to go do the acceptance inspection, you have to go in my place!