Workplace reviews and discussion: 七盟電子工業股份有限公司

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I advise anyone considering taking a job at Chi Meng as an overseas sales representative to be mentally prepared for the following. These are my personal experiences.

1. Do not store any data on your computer's hard drive; save it to the cloud instead: the relatives of the seven shareholders are constantly surrounding your seat. They are wolves, and you are merely a helpless little lamb. They are always coveting your data. My computer had a password on the Windows startup screen, but several times after starting it up, I found that the startup screen was different from usual. When this happens, you can only be angry but dare not say anything. (If MIS needed to access my computer, why didn't they choose a time when I was present?)

2. Be mentally prepared to be used as a scapegoat: Overseas sales staff must also serve as product managers (PMs). If you do not have what it takes, please do not casually accept this job. After I started working there, the company hoped that I could propose a solution to a quality case that had been delayed and unresolved for years. They gave me electronic files accumulated over many years, and because the case was so complicated, it might have taken a year to fully digest them. Just a few days after a meeting with the supplier, I immediately heard complaints from my close colleagues that my supervisor was dissatisfied with how I was handling the matter. I would like to ask you this: You had been with the company for over 20 years, and this case was originally your responsibility. It had been delayed for years without resolution, and you now sought my help. I had only just taken over and had not yet figured things out in the short term, yet you turned around and stabbed me in the back. Is that right? (If you dared to make such remarks to colleagues, surely you also dared to say them to the boss, didn't you?)

3. Your supervisor will leave you to fend for yourself.

4. The relatives of the seven shareholders use their privileges and do things outside the rules. The chaos they cause leaves you angry but afraid to speak up.

5. Even when a customer is being handed over to you, whether the files are electronic or in paper folders, they are often completely missing. Those four words—“not a trace left”—were told to me personally by the boss.

6. I was considered a lower-level supervisor, but do not think that becoming a supervisor makes you impressive or gives you reason to be smug. They will hire another supervisor at a higher level than you, who appears to have little professional ability and only knows how to talk, to pressure you.

7. The development of new products proceeds at a snail's pace, with no efficiency whatsoever. Meetings are often characterized by: discussing without deciding, deciding without acting, and acting without results.

8. For every newly hired overseas sales employee, the boss first praises you lavishly in front of all the employees at a meeting, as if you were a star. “Loving and cherishing talent” is his catchphrase. But his true nature is this: the company has been established for 30 years, and he has already made plenty of money. “Loving and cherishing talent” actually means “loving his own money and cherishing his own wealth.” To him, you overseas sales employees are merely a group of “garbage to be~re~cy~cled~and~pro~cessed~at~any~time.”

9. Sure enough, just as I had anticipated, if you cannot resolve the problem mentioned in point 2 and have no achievements in developing overseas customers, what reason does the company have to keep you? At 2:30 that afternoon, I received notice of dismissal. Completely unprepared, I had to get out by 6:30. I could not find the boss; he was hiding in China. The supervisor who had been there for less than two months stood less than two meters away from me and actually said, “If you don't leave now, I'll call the police.” Meanwhile, the other supervisor—the one who had caused me to lose my job and had been there for over 20 years—sat quietly in his chair, doing his own thing, without even looking at me. So I carried my large and small bags out the company's front door. It was pouring rain outside that night, as if Heaven itself were shedding tears for me. Truly, I was very sad that day. My heart was bleeding!