Workplace reviews and discussion: 賞霖創藝股份有限公司

1. The work environment is quite beautiful, and colleagues get along well. It is a suitable place for fresh university graduates to gain experience.

2. Over time, you naturally cultivate a Buddha-like temperament.

1. You have to clean every morning, and your work is evaluated according to professional cleaners’ standards. If the cleaning is not done well, your work abilities may even be questioned.

2. The managers’ leadership abilities are unconvincing. They only shout loudly in the office, as if they are afraid that others will not know they are managers and are doing something.

3. Overtime is the norm. There is no compensatory leave for overtime on weekdays, let alone overtime pay. Even the compensatory-leave system for working on holidays has major problems, with so many restrictions that it seems they have no intention of letting you take the leave.

4. They have no sense of time and like to discuss things during break time or after work. Meetings are also frequently scheduled after working hours.

5. Work efficiency is very poor, and it often feels like everyone is busywork.

6. It is easy to join this company but difficult to leave. Discussing resignation is like being interrogated as a criminal; even after three rounds of review, the matter may still not be settled.

7. Although the management style is flat, you cannot move up even if you want to, and promises of raises are merely verbal.

8. It is a low-EQ work environment. Managers often communicate with people while carrying their personal emotions; when they are in a bad mood, whoever they encounter suffers.

9. The company has an extremely high turnover rate. The person sitting next to you today may be replaced by someone else tomorrow, and job openings are posted there permanently.

10. You clock in when you arrive, but someone else clocks you out when you leave—a company that completely disregards the Labor Standards Act.

11. During your vacation, you are required to bring your computer, check emails, and work. You cannot let your manager be unable to reach you. I once heard managers say, “Vacation is vacation, but you still have to work!”

12. You can take sick leave, but you have to get used to managers sarcastically saying that you have poor self-management.

13. You have to compete for leave. No more than two people in a department may take leave at the same time. Managers can arrange to take leave together themselves, though—what a double standard.

14. Graphic designers do everything under the sun, just short of changing diapers… If a 3D model is not completed properly, you are told to fix it; they would never hire a 3D specialist to revise it. You handle endless Marcom projects and endless artwork, and sometimes you even have to cross into other fields to design cakes and trophies…

15. Deliverables “must” be provided on time, yet the necessary information is often impossible to obtain. Design staff bear the pressure of outsourcing, and if vendors cannot finish on time, it is also considered the designer’s problem. This unequal relationship is truly puzzling.

16. The work log is basically an employee communication notebook. I thought I was still in middle or elementary school. After working overtime until so late, you still have to spend a lot of time filling out that meaningless work log.

17. I once worked on-site all night until dawn. When I arrived at the office in the afternoon, my manager still questioned why I had gone to work so late.

18. You have to answer the phone within two rings. I have no idea what kind of bizarre rule this is. (There are pros and cons.)

19. The people who make the rules will always be the first to break them. Others are not allowed to make mistakes, yet they themselves lead the way in making them.

20. Even when staffing is sufficient, the shortage of manpower cannot be avoided. The experienced employees are always the ones doing the work, and the uneven distribution of workload is obvious.

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Overall, this job allows you to accumulate experience quickly in a short time, but how much you learn is a matter of perspective. I mainly resigned because I disliked the way the senior managers conducted themselves and because the company has serious systemic problems. Even when these issues are raised, they will not be improved, so I no longer want to believe their one-sided claims.