Workplace reviews and discussion: 聯傑咖啡事業股份有限公司

Flexible working hours; colleagues are easy to get along with

To cut to the chase: Don’t come work for this company. There are many green bean companies, and of course some of the others are also terrible—ask around yourself. I’m just letting you know in advance that this green bean company is really terrible.

1. Low pay, few bonuses, extremely long working hours, and short lunch breaks. It’s rare to eat lunch at a normal time, and many colleagues have stomach problems.

2. The boss occasionally brings their dog to work, and it’s very noisy. The boss also has poor emotional intelligence and yells at employees almost every day.

3. The company’s cash flow is often not very normal, and departments other than Finance frequently have to find ways to raise money.

4. We often have to stop working midway and spend one to two hours listening to the boss talk nonsense, showing off bits of knowledge they think are very important but that can be found on Wikipedia (such as Pan Feng, a Three Kingdoms general; alkaline versus carbon-zinc batteries; Queen’s singing style; and *Rich Dad Poor Dad*).

5. There are no rules for personnel matters or expense reimbursements. Everything is decided by the mood of the supervisor who doubles as the accountant and HR manager—she is usually playing on her phone.

6. Although the company claims to offer flexible working hours, when the boss is in one of their moods, they will secretly check your clock-in records.

7. Each colleague earns approximately NT$30,000–33,000. The boss often says that a certain colleague earns a higher salary, so they should do more work—even though the difference is only NT$2,000–3,000. In addition, the boss likes to speak ill of colleagues behind their backs.

8. The boss likes to provoke competitors’ bosses on the company’s Facebook page. Two people in their forties or fifties attack each other all day long, becoming an industry joke for people to gossip about.

9. The turnover rate is extremely high. The colleagues are easy to get along with, but they are different every year. The colleagues who were there when I joined are mostly no longer the same as the current ones. A supplier once even mocked the company for changing purchasing staff so many times in two years that they didn’t know whom to contact.

10. There are around ten people in the company, and each person is made to cover the work of many others.