Workplace reviews and discussion: 勁香有限公司

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1. You apply for position A, but after actually starting work, you are asked to do the work of position B.

Example: You apply for a customer service position but are required to do the work of a sales assistant.

2. One person takes on multiple roles.

Example: Your title is sales assistant, but you are also expected to handle packaging, shipping, accounting, marketing, graphic design, and more. If you can drive, you may also be made to serve as the boss’s private chauffeur (when the boss is abroad, you have to pick up and drop off the boss and the boss’s wife to and from work, and take their children to and from school).

3. No comprehensive training.

Example: You have to figure everything out yourself by reviewing materials left behind by predecessors (because the turnover is so high that there is practically no one to ask) or searching online. When you ask your supervisor, they may look at you as if to say, “How could you come ask me about this?” or give you vague, ambiguous answers.

4. You are expected to remember many things after being told only once, while the supervisors themselves cannot remember many things and require you to remind them repeatedly.

Example: They insist that when assigning tasks, you must take notes or send them a Line message or email, yet they still cannot remember things and keep asking you about them again and again.

5. Constantly changing instructions.

Example: They tell you to do something one way in the morning, but after you finish and show them, they change their story in the afternoon.

6. The boss and the boss’s wife are not on the same page, leaving employees at a loss.

Example: Both are very strong-willed and have plenty of ideas, but neither is willing to communicate and coordinate with the other. One will say to do A while the other says to do B; one moment employees are told to do things one way, and the next they are told to do them another way. Employees often end up caught in the middle or acting as their messenger.

7. No sense of time.

Example: The company often participates in exhibitions or takes on activities such as Lions Club events. They agree on a meeting time with employees, but are often at least 15–30 minutes late. (Unfortunately, for some matters, employees have no authority to make any decisions before they arrive and can only wait around.)

8. An exploitative, old-school-boss mentality.

Example: When employees resign, it is always the other person’s fault; I have no problem. In any case, as long as I have money, I am not afraid of being unable to hire employees.

If you can accept all of the above, those who are thick-skinned enough are welcome to give it a try!