Workplace reviews and discussion: 寧斐御業有限公司

Listen to some of life's great philosophies and hear the boss's complaints

1. I worked there for half a year and had only three days off; two of those were for the Qingming Festival tomb-sweeping holiday. The boss was extremely unwilling even to give us those days off. Even on holidays, the company would constantly harass me and interfere with my private life through messaging apps.

2. The promised overtime pay and bonuses were just empty words. In the end, the boss would brush them off with various excuses, saying things like he was very tired and had no time. (I worked an average of 16–18 hours a day, and once worked continuously for over 30 hours.)

3. Employees were constantly required to live at the company. The boss kept saying to treat the company like our own home, but because of the lack of staff, the company was hardly ever cleaned.

4. The boss often bragged that he could take on many government contracts and that hiring 50 more employees would be no problem. That was only because he quoted extremely low prices to deceive the government; if he had to pay overtime, the money from those contracts would put him deeply in the red.

5. The boss was someone who appeared to care deeply about employees but actually had no concern for their well-being. While we were doing aerial photography in the mountains, a typhoon struck, yet he still insisted that employees remain on the mountain to meet the aerial-photography schedule. Fortunately, the campground owner was kind and drove me and another coworker down the mountain to seek shelter.

6. During meetings, the boss would even show off how good his relationship with his wife was, but many female employees who quit later admitted that they had been verbally harassed by him.

7. Project schedules frequently fell behind, and the boss would always blame the employees. No matter how many things went wrong, it was never his fault.

8. Because the company lacked equipment, the boss and senior employees would constantly demand that new hires bring their own equipment to work. If the equipment broke or was lost, they would simply play dumb and pretend they knew nothing about it. If you tried to discuss it with the boss, he would say it was the employee's own problem.