Workplace reviews and discussion: 臺灣芝寶股份有限公司

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To state the conclusion first: The company's work atmosphere is extremely bad. The female owner is aloof, arrogant, and conceited. Relations among employees are highly problematic. It is a small company with absolutely no systems in place, and it does not proactively enroll employees in labor and health insurance. To the company, employees are disposable chopsticks—not talent they want, but servants.

The female owner (the one who wears glasses) has the final say in everything. If you ask her opinion, she may even say, “I should be dealing with more important matters instead of worrying about this kind of thing.” When asking senior colleagues, they also act as though they cannot be bothered to answer, as if you owed them several million dollars. From your very first day at work, no one trains or guides you. Furthermore, from the day I joined until the day I left, I was never enrolled in labor and health insurance.

The female owner apparently graduated from Soochow University's Department of Philosophy and also works as a lecturer. She likes to say, “I studied philosophy, so I place great importance on logic,” but there is absolutely no logic in the way she acts or speaks. She forgets what she said today by tomorrow, and then questions you the next day (even though you had just emailed her the day before to confirm the plan). She shows none of the qualities expected of an educator, instead acting as though she is above everyone else and that, since this is her company, whatever she says goes.

The position described in the interview is completely different from the work you actually do. Whatever the female owner suddenly comes up with is what you are expected to do, and if what you do does not match her intentions, she gives you no opportunity at all. She will use a threatening tone to say that you have only one last chance (which really means she gives you no chance at all; colleagues hired in the same batch said she had said the same thing to them). Do not be misled by the claim during the interview that there will be training—there is no such thing as training here. The attitude is essentially that she is a benefactor paying you, while all of you are disposable chopsticks: if you are not what she wants, she will immediately tell you to get lost, because there are plenty of “奴才” from National Taiwan University and National Taiwan Normal University waiting in line to work here—who do you think you are? This is the female owner's true attitude toward employees. There is a reason every senior colleague has such a bad temper and such unpleasant expressions. This workplace is absolutely not worth working at, and it is even less worth interviewing for.