Workplace reviews and discussion: 貳號資訊設計工作室

1. There are about ten cats to cuddle.

2. It’s not very clear what you’re supposed to do, so going to work feels like being on vacation.

3. The work is very flexible.

4. Cleaning the environment before work in the morning can be calming and meditative.

5. The company is located on a quiet little street, and when you don’t feel like working, you can walk around the alley.

6. Close to the Anping Historic District.

7. When the boss isn’t around, you can sneak into the room to take a look.

8. There are small cookies you can keep eating, but be mindful of your carbohydrate intake; increasing your protein intake is recommended.

9. Sometimes colleagues are assigned to take out the trash, giving them an excuse to go out, buy food, and take a little walk.

10. There is a canal nearby where you can take a walk and relax.

11. Close to Tainan’s Grand Ballroom, where you can go dancing at night and experience the nightlife.

12. A-Wen Beef Soup is nearby.

13. There is a delicious Jin-Feng noodle shop nearby.

14. If you work overtime on holidays, the cats will worship you.

15. You can occasionally feed stray cats.

16. There is a refrigerator, a small steamer, and an oven.

17. There is an end-of-year banquet.

18. There are prize drawings.

Honestly, if you want a job but don’t have any particular expectations of yourself and feel that simply finishing the tasks is enough, you might consider submitting your résumé. This place is very suitable for you.

1. The internal structure is collapsing.

2. If you bring your skills here, this is as far as you’ll go; you won’t learn anything (because there’s no one who can teach you).

3. After reaching an agreement during the interview and starting work, basically 70% of the job consists of work outside your professional expertise.

4. It seems like a management position, but it isn’t actually a management role.

5. The internal staff is small (and lacks technical ability), but the boss wants to make very ambitious things.

6. A workplace that consumes your professional life.

7. It’s not very clear what the actual benefits of completing the work are.

8. It looks like an animation company from the outside, but after joining, you’ll wonder whether it really is an animation company.

9. It feels like working on a university graduation project.

10. Cat attacks (a tragedy for your hands).

11. Cat-hair attacks (a tragedy for your clothes).

12. Cat-urine attacks (a tragedy for your computer).

13. The boss has a very unusual temper.

14. The taste in the company’s works is very unusual.

15. They keep bringing up old works from several years ago.

16. There are no new productions.

17. The story of Little Cat Berkeley is very touching.

18. New colleagues keep joining and leaving not long afterward, which makes you feel lonely.

19. The salary is extremely low. With the same abilities, you could get better pay elsewhere, so why not go to northern, central, or southern Taiwan’s major cities?

20. No overtime pay, unclear arrangements for compensatory leave, underreported labor and health insurance wages, and an extremely meager year-end bonus.

21. Because the company doesn’t make money, the boss keeps changing decisions from one day to the next, and your salary may be reduced.

22. Clocking in uses paper time cards, and the time clock is constantly malfunctioning.

23. Internal cohesion is extremely poor (people keep coming and going).

Honestly, if you are passionate about animation, this really is not the place you should come to look for a job. The same applies to recent university graduates. You may think you’ll be able to learn at least a little, but you’ll discover that you’re mostly doing miscellaneous tasks, and there is only so much of what you want to learn that you’ll actually learn. As someone who supports Taiwanese animation, seeing the state of this company is truly very disappointing.