Workplace reviews and discussion: 多利得有限公司

1. The colleagues are very nice—extremely nice, so nice that you wonder how they ever came to this place to step on a landmine (except for the old hands who are preparing for retirement).

2. For people with strong self-discipline, it can be a good place if you treat it purely as training. Most of the time, you have a high degree of freedom at work. However, once you complete the promotion requirements and max out your skill points, you can make a quick escape, because other than that, there are no other advantages worth mentioning.

Additional notes on the benefits commonly listed in the job postings:

1. “Employee trips”

Just written to look good. There have been none at all for at least the past two years—not even a one-day trip to nearby Changhua.

2. “Lunch allowance”

NT$1,000 per month. In reality, it is used to subsidize an excessively low salary structure, including all kinds of other allowances and bonuses—everything can be deducted or slashed at any time.

3. “Occasional dinners and afternoon tea”

The dinners are just the year-end banquet and Mid-Autumn barbecue. The food is not particularly good, so don’t get your hopes up. If you happen to have something else to do and cannot attend, it may even affect the atmosphere of harmony within the imperial court. As for afternoon tea, people who like fried food, sweet-potato balls, traditional doughnuts, and other high-calorie foods may enjoy it. Pigs’ Life ONLINE.

4. “No overtime; one-hour lunch break”

There used to be an advantage over the Labor Standards Act in terms of working hours (10:00–18:00, with seven actual working hours). Recently, however, after management unilaterally announced changes to the working-hour rules, there is no longer any advantage over other companies to brag about.

Flattery skills > sweeping skills > professional skills

If your skill points are arranged this way, you will definitely become a top-tier elite at this company. After all, sweeping ability is included in performance evaluations.

1. Social insurance enrollment is routinely delayed. There have even been colleagues who were “maliciously dismissed” but could not obtain certificates of involuntary separation. Later, when they accessed their insurance records, they discovered that the company had never enrolled them in insurance at all, leaving them suddenly unemployed and unable to claim benefits.

2. Turnover is extremely high because this company wants obedient minions and disposable consumables. At least ten colleagues have left within two years, but only two new hires have successfully been brought in so far. The design department office is practically a ghost town.

3. Producing and selling styles and patterns that pay homage to others has become routine. Once a company’s crooked culture takes shape, it is not something designers who depend on the company for their salaries can control. Everyone is simply out trying to make a living.

4. The management team appears enlightened and offers a high degree of freedom, but they are actually very petty. The abbot who monopolizes this territory and their happy companions share a deep affec～tion that outsiders cannot see clearly. What kind of affection it is, we neither know nor wish to understand. Everyone only sees them frequently going upstairs to a small room for private meetings; some colleagues have also found rubber products under the sofa in that room while cleaning. In short, remember not to offend the abbot. Sucking up and currying favor is the true path to survival for a minion.

5. The abbot is not very good at maintaining a pleasant facade, but deliberately shows kindness and pretends to be friendly toward innocent newcomers who do not yet understand the truth. After spending more time with them, you will discover the problem: their intelligence is questionable, their work ability is extremely mediocre, and their emotional intelligence is extremely low. They snap at the boss, the boss’s wife, and customers, and curse at partner manufacturers, colleagues, shipping companies, and postal workers. As long as you upset the abbot, no one can escape. There has even been an attempted act of workplace violence during working hours, in which a colleague was attacked. Naturally, their happy companions covered it all up—after all, the best way to solve a problem is to solve the person who raised it. (Because the abbot’s poor emotional management affected everyone’s work, the company’s employees even had to sit down and hold several meetings about it. Utterly ridiculous.)

6. The company is small and can be considered a family business. It has all the flaws that other companies have, so there is no need to elaborate. The old hands are like one family and have very similar tempers and habits. A major characteristic is the lack of attention to hygiene: toilets often contain soiled items, uncleared menstrual blood, and toilet paper or sanitary products left openly on display for everyone to share. All I can say is that, from their clothing to their behavior, they are extremely unapologetically themselves.

7. It is a company that loves holding meetings and organizing information, but the information never gets organized. Even contracts and quotations intended for clients require hiring interns who know absolutely nothing about the company’s business to produce them.