Workplace reviews and discussion: 百勝國際股份有限公司

Aside from one female colleague at management level who occasionally stabs people in the back, everyone else shares a strong sense of camaraderie! Also, salaries are paid on time (honestly, the fact that even this can count as a positive is pretty tragic)!

The person on the third floor above already said everything that needed to be said. What else can I say? XD

So I’ll talk about a few points that left the deepest impression on me (please forgive me if anything is repetitive qq).

(1) The boss’s EQ is seriously awful OMG! The boss has by far the worst temper of anyone I’ve encountered so far—no exaggeration!! It’s only natural for employees to be reprimanded when they make mistakes, but I have to say that while I was working there, the boss would very easily get angry over extremely trivial matters (not necessarily related to the company) and take it out on employees and suppliers, and this happened quite frequently. The key point is that he would often say that he had already restrained himself a lot (implying that he didn’t think his EQ was low); apparently, his temper used to be even worse, hehe. I understand that everyone has emotions, but having a boss who gets enraged so easily puts employees under tremendous stress.

(2) The boss is seriously “frugal” to an absurd degree OMG! For example, the company has a graphic designer, but the computers don’t have legitimate software installed. I previously heard the designer complain about this a little. Although software isn’t cheap, you design products for clients and claim to have a design team, yet you don’t even have a single legitimate software package? And when dealing with suppliers in mainland China, the boss haggles prices down to the bone while demanding extremely high quality, only to keep delaying payment again and again (I have to observe three minutes of silence for the suppliers). On top of that, his attitude is terrible (um, aren’t you the one who owes them money? Could you be a little nicer?). As luck would have it, I have a distant relative who works in the same city as a former supplier of this company, in a related industry. Apparently, quite a few people have heard of the boss—tsk tsk~ As for employee benefits, huh? What are those?

(3) The boss’s instructions are extremely unclear OMG! A lot of the time, the boss’s directions are vague and lacking context. You want to ask, but you’re afraid of being scolded (see point one—you never know when the boss will explode), while not asking means you’ll end up doing things incorrectly. I think the boss’s logic is poor; his thoughts jump around so quickly when he speaks that he’s sometimes incomprehensible. Then again, maybe I’m just not bright enough, hehe.

Every now and then, the boss hints that his salary is higher than what’s offered on the market (to be fair, it is indeed a little higher, but only a little—it really isn’t worth bringing up over and over again as if he’s afraid everyone might not know). But honestly, working at this company is extremely stressful, both mentally and physically—very, very, very stressful. During work hours, just facing the boss, this super-unpredictable time bomb, is exhausting enough; after work, you still have to check your messaging apps (the boss says you don’t have to deal with messages right away and can handle them the next day, but if he personally considers something important, he’ll bombard you with messages demanding a reply). All things considered, the salary really isn’t that high; it’s just average, which is no wonder the turnover rate remains so high. Some time ago, a former colleague sent me the discussion thread from before (unfortunately, it has been deleted). As I recall, the boss personally came out to respond. I respect the boss’s response, but in fact, I agree more with the experiences shared by most people.