Workplace reviews and discussion: 常茂企業有限公司

The company provides lunch.

The company is called Changmao Group, but several companies within it are merely nominal entities used to distinguish different product lines. They are all in the same office, except Jinshengwang Biotechnology, which handles products related to Taiwan cypress mushrooms and is located in another building; the others are all together.

The owner is very wealthy but is stingy in some respects. If you don't have enough stationery, you have to bring your own; you also have to bring your own toilet paper. Employees clock in and out using fingerprint scanners. If you are late by one minute more than three times in a month, you will receive a warning, which will affect your year-end bonus.

It is a family business, but long-term employees receive no preferential treatment and can still be harshly reprimanded. When the owner is in a bad mood, they will also nitpick, but always over very minor matters: how the lights should be turned on, where things are placed, drinking water, eating, and so on can all become subjects of criticism. If something cannot be found, they will scold you, even though the owner may actually be the one who took it somewhere and forgot where it was…

It feels like many things are in progress, but nothing is ever confirmed. There is often very little to do at work. The supervisor sits behind you and can clearly see your computer screen. They may also tell you what to do by speaking to you directly from behind or modify documents themselves. There is no privacy at all. Occasionally, you inevitably need to take care of a personal matter, and they will tell you that there is a camera behind you, so you should be careful… It is a very restrictive place…