Workplace reviews and discussion: 美食映象整合行銷顧問股份有限公司

The environment is very clean

I went to an interview four years ago.

The interview consisted of a group of people sitting at tables in the lobby filling out forms.

At the same time, they also gave us a large envelope containing company information and successful case studies from the company (very similar to the kind handed out at exhibitions).

After we finished filling them out, we went to a conference room where the manager introduced the company.

Next, the applicants took turns going onstage to introduce themselves, and then the manager wanted to look at the skin patterns on our fingers.

The second-round interview notification was sent to far fewer people. At that time, I did not have much experience. During the second interview, I asked whether they provided labor and health insurance. The manager said that health insurance was provided, but labor insurance was not.

They said I could either have NT$3,000–6,000 deducted from my salary to enroll in labor insurance, or receive an additional NT$3,000 and enroll in an external plan myself. They then said that enrolling externally would be more cost-effective. In the end, I thought I would give it a try first.

During the internship, it was just me and another marketing planner.

For all three days of the internship, we only watched instructional videos.

Some of the company rules were really quite strange.

Every morning, all employees had to attend a meeting (before the meeting, we had to chant the company’s guiding principles).

You were forced to eat lunch at the company (whether you brought your own lunch or bought food to bring back), while watching company videos. Before eating, we also had to participate in motivational chanting.

In addition, the internship was unpaid.

Even when it was time to leave, we were not allowed to go home; we had to wait a full 40 minutes before we could leave.

And even then, only we new employees were allowed to leave first. From what I saw, the other employees had not left yet.

After I went home, I assessed the situation myself and felt that there were no two-day weekends, the working hours were long, and I felt as though I was being treated like a slave.

The next day, I did not show up. In the morning, I called to inform them, but since the manager and relevant personnel had not arrived yet, I told the receptionist that I would not continue reporting for work.

After that, the company called me incessantly.......... Since I had no intention of going back, I did not answer the company’s calls.

When I had gradually forgotten about the incident (about three months later),

I received a call during dinner from the new planner who had interned with me at the time,

asking why I had not returned..................

But the point is, I had never given my phone number to the planner at all (after all, we were not familiar with each other).

To be frank.... it was incredibly frightening..................................

And after seeing everyone else’s accounts, I feel really lucky that I did not go back then.......................