Workplace reviews and discussion: 品咖媒體科技股份有限公司

1. Colleagues are easy to get along with and all very capable

2. The workplace is in a bustling area with convenient transportation

3. There are occasionally drinks and snacks (really only very occasionally, and the kind you probably wouldn't want to eat)

4. There are very few people at the company, and the office is spacious, so the boss can run around

5. The benefits are good (but later I found that they are actually about the same as those at some other companies)

The company was established two years ago, and almost all of the people who joined in the first wave have either been laid off or resigned. As a result, nearly all of the colleagues are already gone. The ratio is approximately 8:2, meaning that 80% of the people were laid off. The reasons for dismissal were generally that he had gotten tired of them or was unhappy with them—completely subjective, with no objective analysis. Watching colleagues come and go is truly inexplicably disheartening, so I wanted to share my experience at the company.

1. The boss is Korean and his Chinese is not very good, so there is a deep communication gap with colleagues. He often cannot understand the contents of proposals, but then takes the concepts and ideas for himself. By the time you realize it, your work has already been presented to headquarters as his own proposal.

2. Fairness is extremely inconsistent. The extent to which he plays favorites and protects his chosen employees is so obvious that almost everyone can see it.

3. He secretly looks at notebooks left on desks. A colleague was once laid off because they had written something in their notebook. If a computer is left unlocked without a password, he will log in and look through it. He also regularly checks colleagues' personal pages and social media platforms such as Instagram. Once, during a meeting, he directly displayed a colleague's social media account and criticized it.

4. I don't know whether this is a feature of Korean workplace culture or something else, but he likes to investigate competitors and then anonymously attack them on their social media. He once directed colleagues during a meeting to defame another competitor on PTT. He even sent false information to Korean media and asked them to report it. One colleague's boyfriend is Korean, and he asked the colleague's boyfriend to help as well. The purpose was to provoke a mass reaction among Koreans in Taiwan and get Korean media to report defamatory information about the competitor.

5. Although he is a manager, he apparently has nothing else to do and spends all day packing shipments to look busy. He also fabricated facts and told the person in charge in Korea that he worked so hard packing shipments because none of the Taiwanese colleagues could understand Korean. In reality, the orders are all in Chinese, and the error and return rates for shipments handled by him are actually the highest.

6. He is indecisive, constantly changes his mind, and is incapable of serving as a decision-maker.

7. He does not like hiring colleagues with work experience and prefers high school graduates, so the depth and quality of the writing cannot improve. He also does not like hiring managers to lead the organization because he is afraid they will take his job or discover how incompetent he is. Age discrimination is very serious. With an inexperienced manager leading the company and employees' growth, everything is just like blind men trying to figure out an elephant.

8. There is no year-end bonus. He says that, as a foreign company, employees receive a share of sales, but no one has received any so far. As a result, the difference in annual salary is actually quite substantial when compared with other companies.

9. After a colleague resigns, he investigates the former colleague's new job and then slanders them in the office.

10. He often talks about how Taiwanese people supposedly work this way or that. When he feels like it, he writes sarcastic emails to everyone. When he wants to cause trouble, he digs up work proposals that were submitted months ago and shoots them down. Sometimes emails arrive on weekends and in the middle of the night. Apparently, only those who send emails on weekends and in the middle of the night are considered to be working (usually the favored employees).

All in all, there is actually much more...

I really feel quite exhausted.... Just spending all day guarding against whether the boss is going to mess with you is exhausting enough.

If you are fortunate enough, you can still come for an interview and see for yourself,

but I can only say that it's not over just because you make it through the probationary period. Good luck!