Workplace reviews and discussion: 誠品股份有限公司

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During the interview, the manager mentioned that the company regularly provides training, offers many online courses, has young and harmonious colleagues, and has cross-departmental clubs that employees can join. They paint you an endless picture of all these wonderful benefits, but the actual company benefits (pay raises, bonuses, annual salary, leave, subsidy policies, etc.) are not disclosed until your first day on the job. Basically, they just comply with the Labor Standards Act, so don't get your hopes up. For the three traditional holiday bonuses, they provide Eslite gift vouchers, keeping your spending tied to the company^^. Employee training is mostly useless online courses that you might as well skip. There is no overtime pay for working overtime; you can only apply for compensatory leave, but employees generally don't dare to actively apply for it even after working overtime. In short, it's low pay and long hours. Also, managers still send Line messages on weekends and after work, and they do so very frequently, even when the matter isn't urgent.

The office doesn't provide toilet paper, so you have to bring your own. There is no free snack bar like those at startups, and there are no company trips.

The pay-raise system is extremely opaque. After the three-month probation period, if you don't proactively ask for a raise, the amount they give you will basically be completely arbitrary (I only got an extra X00, which was outrageous. During the interview, they said it would be X000. If my work performance had been poor, they had told me so, I could have accepted it, but HR and the manager said nothing and simply gave me this amount.)

The office internet is incredibly slow, the computer systems are outdated, time is wasted, and all kinds of reporting procedures are inefficient. Workload varies greatly depending on the department. The department I was in was very idle; colleagues could even take on freelance work during office hours, while the people next door were so busy they couldn't eat lunch until three or four in the afternoon.

Everyone just does their own thing at work, and there isn't much opportunity for growth or creative sparks. Colleagues aren't proactive either and often talk about quitting:). The hierarchy is strict—about as traditional as it gets. Managers try to appear open-minded, but in reality they won't accept your opinions. You have to accept the culture here yourself, but don't expect to change it—you won't be able to.

The managers' abilities are very average (to put it politely), and they don't seek to improve either. Seeing them become managers really makes rookies question their lives:). Most of them rose through the ranks because of their seniority, so newcomers should not expect managers to teach them anything. When I asked where my project proposal needed revisions, he only said, “Make the picture bigger” (That's it??). In short, he neither knows how to teach nor has the ability to teach.

The company's finance department is extremely stingy about taxi-fare reimbursements. Even when the pick-up and drop-off locations are clearly an external business trip from Store A to Store B, you still have to write down the reason for taking the taxi, the names of colleagues sharing the ride, and the time of the ride. If you don't write everything clearly, they won't release the reimbursement! Pretty cheap, huh~

The conclusion is that this company absolutely does not deserve to be rated as a most desirable employer—it's practically a scam! It's simply terrible! Every word comes from bitter experience. Brave souls are welcome to take on the challenge~~~