Workplace reviews and discussion: 利穎電信股份有限公司

1. The only enemy the colleagues have is the boss; there is hardly any scheming between departments.

2. You can play darts at work.

3. The boss goes to mainland China once a month for a week. That week is a good time: as long as you finish the tasks you’re supposed to do each day, things are pretty relaxing.

1. The boss is basically the devil. Don’t expect to communicate or discuss things with him. All he wants are slaves who will listen to him and produce his various absurd ideas in an extremely short time. Every afternoon, there are a bunch of meaningless meetings where you have to listen to him talk nonsense and cannot contradict him. He just endlessly repeats things like “I don’t care,” “I don’t know,” or “I feel like Nothing”—complete bullshit—and never considers the difficulties employees encounter...

2. In the second month after starting, only half the salary was paid, and the other half was paid nearly ten days later. (However you look at it, it really seems like the company was experiencing serious financial difficulties.)

3. Even though the company clearly had no money, it kept hiring new people, apparently trying to use them to get rid of old employees it didn’t like, and then repeating the cycle indefinitely. Roughly every three months, one group would leave and another would arrive. There was absolutely no room for growth or development.

4. Honestly, the boss really should call it quits. I recommend that anyone considering joining think it through very carefully. If you want to experience being treated like an idiot while being called an idiot, then hahaha.

5. He thinks a project plan can be completed in two hours and the planning for a system feature can be completed in one hour. Then at 3 p.m. he comes to ask, “Where’s the thing you’re supposed to give me?” (He hadn’t even mentioned it the day before....) Then he holds a meeting at 6 p.m. and won’t let you leave. The only way to go is to sneak out. It was the first time in my life I clocked out and ran out of the company; even military service wasn’t this damn ridiculous.

6. Oh, and he’ll also publicly humiliate you during meetings, saying that you generate no value and spend all day doing pointless work. Even if you argue back, he’ll just endlessly repeat himself. He’s a stubborn middle-aged man who cares about his image and loves pretending to know things he doesn’t.