菓風小舖股份有限公司
Pros

The colleagues are all very nice. When someone is too busy, everyone helps out and does crafts together—in simple terms, we work overtime together.

The company is in a great location, right across from Huashan. As long as you don't face the company, your mood will be pretty good.

Cons

I originally thought I would just leave it at that after resigning.

But I happened to see an “employee” saying that the company was great, and I really couldn't resist replying...

The company's biggest problem is the supervisor (I really had very little contact with the chairman).

To be fair, the supervisor is quite diligent and researches a lot of information, and his EQ is also fairly high.

But he really has very little ability to make decisions, and his skill at going back on his word is truly first-rate.

He often completely forgets things that were decided just a few days earlier, or says that he never made that decision.

When two or more people call him out at the same time, he gets flustered and angrily says, “You guys misunderstood what I meant~”

Because many people at the company are in their first job, there is often this illusion of, “Eh, is it my problem?”

But when you seriously investigate, it really isn't that we misunderstood him (the results of the previous discussion were already written on the office blackboard, and he still denied them).

As a result, everything has to be printed out for him to sign, because without his signature, he can change his story however he wants.

And yet, apart from the chairman and general manager, this company has no other lower-level managers, while they insist on micromanaging every little thing.

They keep changing things until the schedule is completely blown, then change them again, and finally add, “It's not like I enjoy going against you guys.”

Every time they talk to employees or vendors, they say, “We're a small company, so everyone has to do everything,” but sometimes they also say they are a large company of this scale.

I find it pretty funny. For people of our generation, Guo Feng Xiao Pu was very famous when we were kids; only later did I learn that it was also famously bad within the industry.

Then there's the high employee turnover. People keep getting replaced until eventually hardly anyone has experience handling seasonal projects.

But I don't think the supervisor or boss cares at all. New people will always be tricked into joining anyway, and those who can't stand the exploitation or want to communicate are dismissed, as the people above said, as unmotivated and unable to endure hardship.

Then there's the issue of working hours. During the interview, they said the workday was from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and even confidently claimed, “We really don't like working overtime; all the computers shut down at 8:00 p.m.~” That was complete nonsense. Even if the computers shut down at 8:00, you can simply extend the time afterward—rules are made to be broken, aren't they? Regarding the “employee's” claim above that there is no unreasonable overtime, I think paying overtime is a basic legal requirement, right? So, was it paid? It took forever to get a pay stub, and apparently the entries on it were a complete mess too, right? Was the salary actually paid accurately? I seriously doubt it. Leaving work on time is practically impossible. We even came to the office on our own on holidays to work overtime and still couldn't finish everything. What exactly counts as “reasonable overtime”? Is it reasonable to notify us before we get off work not to do those things anymore and to work on something else instead? Is it reasonable to change things at the very last moment before the deadline and then make the sales team deal with the vendors and store staff like that?? Supervisor, I think you fundamentally don't understand what those of us who resigned are thinking. We aren't unwilling to work overtime; we are unwilling to spend every day doing “meaningless” overtime, understand?? Do you know how many employees' relatives and friends were so furious that they told us to quit or wanted to help us report this company?

Regarding the position itself, I was in the design department, so I'll describe what I experienced.

The company's computers are truly terrible. Every time I save a file, I have to pray that the computer won't crash. We probably spend an entire morning every day dealing with this kind of situation. And seriously, what year is it now? The design department's computers are still running CS4.

The supervisor's most classic line is: “Not enough memory? Then why did you open such a large file?”

And also: “Hey, about that letter spacing—press it once and then press it three times so I can see what difference it makes.”

What I can't stand most is that they always think design and planning can proceed simultaneously. Without copy or even knowing what the product is, how are we supposed to work? Design and planning staff are constantly assigned, for no apparent reason, to join some project. The most outrageous part is that there is no project proposal or meeting record at all, and then the supervisor is always fixated on some stupid work order. He even has the nerve to lecture employees that we're no longer in school, when even college students know they need to write a proposal for their graduation project. What's more, after all the revisions, they often still use the very first version, because the supervisor doesn't know what he wants in the first place.

Finally, please—this platform is Job Eye, right?! What employee would come on here and say their current or former company is awesome?! Even if the company really is great, people would just enjoy it privately; why share it with others?! Could you be any more ridiculous??

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