Workplace reviews and discussion: 傑比行銷顧問有限公司

1. The colleagues generally get along well.

2. The boss shares their own experiences.

3. The vendors are generally nice people. Occasionally, you develop a sense of camaraderie because of having to deal with a difficult boss.

4. You will learn some practical experience communicating with vendors and clients.

5. The best place to become socialized and practice your emotional intelligence.

When you fail to deliver what they want, being berated and told that what you made is SHIT is one thing, but I absolutely cannot accept them pointing at a colleague and calling them a waste of space, along with all kinds of personal attacks. What exactly can criticizing someone’s appearance or another person’s clothing color coordination improve?

They initially said there would be overtime pay, but in practice there was no clocking-in system at all. Except for events, where overtime was actually calculated, staying late on regular workdays could only be interpreted as a lack of ability and low efficiency. Usually, no colleague dared to report overtime on regular workdays. You don’t get paid extra and still get berated for it... as if anyone actually dared to report regular-workday overtime pay? Anyway, whenever it was time to calculate overtime hours, they would come out with, “It’s based on personal judgment”!

When clients appreciated you, the boss was in a good mood, and things were going well, they would say you were diligent and well-behaved. But when you did not meet the boss’s expectations or they were unhappy with you, they would say your overtime was pointless and that it was your own problem.

If you listened to the boss and changed whatever they wanted, when they were pleased, they would say you were great, willing to take the boss’s opinions, and easy to communicate with. When they were unhappy, they would say you had no opinions of your own and ask, “Am I your assistant?” But if you actually had an opinion, the boss would still say that the employee was difficult to work with, stubborn, and challenging them, etc.

What I find even more unacceptable is how the former boss twisted other people’s meanings, interpreting every good intention in the worst possible way. After genuinely doing everything possible for the company, what you got in return was the former boss deliberately speaking badly about you loudly in front of other colleagues and intentionally making sure you could hear it. If that isn’t bullying, what is?

Very few colleagues left on peaceful terms. Of course, it was only superficially peaceful—they acted as though they valued the employee, but after you left, they would badmouth you in every way and speak ill of you to current employees, sowing discord and putting on an act at what was probably a superhuman level.

Fourteen colleagues left over the course of one year. That is genuinely impressive, yet the former boss still thought it was a problem with modern people and never reflected on their own behavior.

I have already seen many colleagues come in happily, then leave in tears carrying emotional trauma.

They complain that employees are not capable enough, have too little experience, and so on—blah blah—but they always love hiring recent graduates just entering the workforce as colleagues, then berating them mercilessly and telling them they lack ability before asking them to leave.

They say each generation is worse than the last, complaining that people do not even help serve food to the boss when going out to eat together (they had already helped pour tea, so what more do they want?), or buy gifts for the boss when traveling abroad, and so on... This needs to be clarified: as tasteless as the former boss’s remarks were, they did in fact bring small gifts for employees after returning from trips abroad. On the other hand, if you take leave to go on a trip and come back without bringing a gift, you’d better be careful.

I once saw a new colleague take leave, and not long afterward, without informing that colleague, another person was brought in to take over her work. This put the colleague in the awkward position of asking, “Does this mean you’re trying to force me out?” I don’t think anyone objects to deciding to let someone go or whether to keep employing them, but isn’t this incredibly disrespectful?

A colleague once worked overtime until after 10 p.m. and was almost unable to get home because transportation was about to stop. It was not even a project due first thing the next day, so they went home first. The next day, they were immediately criticized mercilessly and were even told, “How could you rush back? How did you manage to sleep that night?”

If you really work late and need to have the boss review a file, you must first bow and scrape and say you are sorry, because you disturbed the esteemed boss’s rest time. Even if you are still working overtime for the company, it is still your own problem—your efficiency must be too poor. Usually, they will not say anything at the time, but be careful: if they catch even one thing you failed to do to their satisfaction, they will bring it up in a meeting to criticize and embarrass you.

Demonizing other people’s personalities has become routine; no matter how kind someone is, they can describe them as a complete animal.

I advise anyone without a certain degree of submissiveness not to enter this company lightly. If you accidentally show any negative emotions, your days afterward will be very difficult! No matter how much you are criticized or how harshly you are scolded—even if your personality is attacked—you can only keep smiling and say, “It’s all my fault. I’m sorry.” This is the basic survival rule for working at this company.