Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣奇士美化粧品股份有限公司

The company is very close to the bus and MRT stations.

1. Employee trips are held once every two years. The entire company is taken by tour bus to stay at a hotel in another county or city. They are always two days and one night, held on regular workdays, but you are given only one day of company-paid leave. The other day is directly recorded as unpaid leave. If you don’t want your pay deducted, you have to apply for compensatory leave yourself.

2. Health checkups are held once every two years, and the place where they are conducted is really not very good either. It must be very cheap.

3. They are very petty with employees. If you want to take compensatory leave, the minimum amount of time you can request each time starts at two hours. They don’t let you request just half an hour or one hour.

4. Only the factory pays overtime. All other departments are treated as being under a duty-based work system. At most, they will count it as compensatory leave, but if you take too much compensatory leave and the boss finds out, you will still get scolded. I heard that the boss once became very indignant and said, “Why are you so concerned about keeping track with the company? I never cared about work hours when I worked.”

5. The boss is a princess who does not allow anyone to defy her. In any case, she is always the one who is most right and understands things best. If you are interested in finding a job where you have no sense of self, you can give this place a try. Unless you know how to flatter people, you will only be a low-paid office worker here for the rest of your life.

6. Every year at the spring banquet, the 80-year-old chairperson goes onstage and says: “At last year’s banquet, the chairperson said they hoped the company would not make the chairperson worry. But over the past year, the chairperson has still been very worried and cannot retire.” Then the general manager’s daughter goes onstage and says: “Chairperson, we won’t make you worry!” Every year, we watch this father-and-daughter dialogue play out, and the only person her father is truly worried about is her.

7. The general manager shouts “customer-oriented” all day long, but everyone in the company knows that the only customers are the boss and his daughter.

8. The company is divided into factions: the chairperson’s faction and the general manager’s faction. Dealing with conflicts between the father and daughter is also part of the job.

9. Neither boss really trusts the people below them, especially the general manager, so they do not delegate authority either. All I can say is that it is difficult to get things done; we are often busy for no reason or doing work that comes to nothing.

10. The general manager likes to make decisions at every stage, but never clearly says what she wants and makes others guess. She changes her mind constantly and reverses decisions from one day to the next. She pretends to delegate authority, but if you do not act according to her wishes, just wait and see.

11. The organizational structure is adjusted extremely quickly, but it is only the same structures being brought back and forth again and again.

12. It is commonplace for one person to be used as three people. Roles overlap and responsibilities are unclear, and whenever something goes wrong, every department kicks the ball to another.

13. The general manager’s attitude toward decision-making is unclear. If something succeeds, she immediately claims deep involvement and says it was completed because of her decision, followed by a pile of requests for reports and assignments so that she can tell a complete story. If it fails, it is all “their” fault, and she goes around telling others what is wrong with you.