Workplace reviews and discussion: 旗訊數位股份有限公司

It depends on what you consider to be an advantage.

The list is endless.

1. The supervisor constantly talks about transformation, but in the end still runs the company using the same approach that has failed to make money.

2. The boss privately lends or sells products obtained from vendors to friends, and the products are never seen again.

3. The boss constantly claims to have no money, yet always spends it on strange things, such as Uni-President trash cans, surveillance cameras even though there is already a fingerprint access-control system, or pepper buns.

4. The boss wants to keep track of every employee’s work progress at all times. The problem is that, while comparing himself to Terry Gou, he is only contradicting himself. Sir, have you ever seen Terry Gou know what every employee is doing?

5. The number of supervisors is completely disproportionate to the number of front-line employees. Some do not think, some are two-faced, some love sleeping, some do not communicate, and some are self-important. Oh! I heard a very “Buddhist-style” one recently joined—I mean the beads on his hand.

6. They tell employees who have not resigned how terrible former employees supposedly were. As soon as an employee leaves, they immediately make disgusting comments in the office about things that were never actually completed.

7. Some people also openly lie to other employees, for example: “After working for a year, his salary definitely won’t be higher than yours,” “We tried to keep him many times,” and “I’m definitely on your side.”

8. I do not know why the job titles posted on 104 and PTT clearly say “Art Editor” and “Technical Editor,” but when you arrive, they tell you, “You can only start out as an editor.”

9. Labor insurance is not enrolled on time when you start, and it is not withdrawn on time when you leave. When you present the Enforcement Rules of the Labor Insurance Act upon resignation, the boss still scolds you: “Are you stupid? The company isn’t short of this little bit of money.” (Oh, really.)

10. Supervisors mostly mock you in front of everyone, saying through their own twisted reasoning that you are not qualified, and then pat you on the head in private. However, looking at the two articles, their writing styles and approaches were similar. Yet for one, they told the person it was detailed, while the other was suddenly criticized for only covering the surface.

11. Supervisors tell you that you can propose any ideas you have, but in the end they will not even discuss them, provide no reason, and say nothing about how to improve them or how we should implement the project. They simply let two weeks of everyone’s hard work die on the spot.

12. If a proposal or project you submit cannot make money within a month, you are only allowed to stop. The problem is that the clients the boss personally brings in are all described as possibilities for the future—ones that need more cultivation and might work out.

13. The boss always tells the sales staff how close he is to this person or that person, saying that they only need to mention his name. Some people also like to say that a particular contact is their apprentice. Then why do they keep letting that person make unreasonable demands for no apparent reason?

14. They do not respect professional expertise, constantly requiring art editors to help with unrelated, non-creative tasks. On Monday morning, they ask a director who just finished filming a video on Sunday, “Can you have the trailer ready by noon today?”

15. Supervisors love telling employees, “Just do something simple.” But then they complain that simple work lacks creativity, while anything more elaborate is criticized as inefficient. Their preferred method of improvement is about 20 years out of date.

16. The boss is always demanding employee efficiency. But when you ask the boss for documents that have to go through him—such as pay slips, salary payments, or settlement reports—he only replies, “Wait until I’m back after one ‘summer.’” Yes, about as long as an entire summer.

17. One supervisor’s specialties, besides eating and grabbing snacks, include taking the company’s most powerful computer to run an emulator for Ragnarok M and sleeping at work. Of course, dumping tasks on employees three days before the deadline is also routine. Or they simply ignore the contents of an entire magazine, leaving almost the whole issue to be completed by one person.

18. You can never tell whether anything communicated by supervisors is actually true. Every time, the versions coming from three different people are different, and none of them matches the others. In the end, the boss became so angry that he directly asked the supervisor whose specialty was sleeping, “Is this company yours or mine?”

19. The boss has an enormous vocabulary of emotionally charged remarks, such as: “Get clear on whose salary you’re taking.” “Miss, are you stupid?” “What you’re doing is really too much.” “Is this company yours or mine?” “Everything is someone else’s fault; it has nothing to do with me.” Ah! The last line is the inner monologue I filled in for him.

20. One two-faced supervisor is very good at painting grand visions and making empty promises, constantly claiming to give young people room to develop, while in reality using ingrained thinking to limit their imagination.

If I keep writing, it feels like I’m going to finish all 5,000 words. To sum up, if you happen to come across this article, please remember: do not be deceived into joining this company. Some people, things, and practices simply deserve to be eliminated.