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ETtoday Buzz Video Assistant Editor

Basically, ETtoday Buzz doesn’t really have any advantages.

ETtoday Buzz Video Assistant Editor

1. Extremely low pay: They only manage to lure recent university graduates into joining. When more experienced employees negotiate for higher salaries, supervisors completely refuse to accept it. They want good talent but offer low pay—who would want to go?

2. Constant hidden overtime with no overtime pay: The job involves obtaining video permissions from well-known YouTubers or creators of viral videos on Facebook, so you must constantly contact unfamiliar fan pages. Whenever they release a new video, you have to follow them closely and ask for permission. You must keep track of them during your off hours; basically, you are still asking for permissions after work. Your off hours and holidays will be taken over, and the key point is that there is no overtime pay.

3. Open and covert competition among colleagues: Since the job is to obtain video permissions, you will not be the only person in your group who sees a particular video, so you are often competing with colleagues for video permissions. You have to report three video topics a day. If a permission you were about to obtain is taken by someone else or the topic is reported first, you must report additional video topics that day. You have to keep your video-topic pool full and guard against colleagues taking your videos.

4. A job that does not help you grow: The position is called editing, but in practice you simply take videos for which you have obtained permission, cut off the beginning and end, come up with an exaggerated, click-worthy title, and upload them to Facebook. They call that editing—I can only laugh.

5. The supervisor has no idea what is going on: Previously, the supervisor did not even know that part-time employees had to spend extra time after work looking for video topics. After finding out, they changed the time for finding topics to working hours, which only treats the symptoms, not the problem, because everyone still frantically competes for topics—just reporting them earlier and earlier. Also, the supervisor does not arrange the work schedule; they leave it to a full-time employee who has just graduated from university, without even giving that employee a raise.

6. The supervisor tramples on people’s dignity: Previously, everyone spent their off-hours looking for topics. Buzz’s target audience and market are women, so the videos found were all similar in type. But the supervisor would not accept them and demanded new types of video topics, apparently unaware that everyone was spending their off-hours looking for videos. They still made unreasonable demands despite not paying overtime. The supervisor is also the type who leaves work on time and does not care about employees’ welfare. A supervisor who is so demanding yet so out of touch is the biggest flaw.