Workplace reviews and discussion: 琉園股份有限公司

Beautiful office environment

The turnover rate is extremely high. The aging owner is running a loss-making company and attempts to change things only make matters worse. The so-called executives under the owner have either grown old and no longer care, leaving you to fend for yourself, or merely put on a superficial display, responding with “okay, okay, yes, yes” because they are afraid of taking responsibility and pass problems around without taking action. Apart from constantly flaunting their supposedly impressive academic credentials, they understand nothing and exercise absolute control (after all, whatever they say is what upper management hears, and no one is willing to take responsibility or verify the facts). The hypocritical, two-faced office culture is extremely serious, and most newcomers are women. Some seemingly upright but arrogant senior executives secretly engage in inappropriate behavior indicative of an improper relationship with certain newcomers (are they looking for an extramarital affair?), then get rid of them out of fear that the affair will be exposed. The other executives are also afraid of trouble. This company is extremely dysfunctional. Apart from certain executives who have been there for a long time, do nothing every day, and are waiting to retire—people who cannot be removed and whom no one dares to confront—everyone else has a very short tenure, typically just one to six months before being let go. Professional expertise is unnecessary here; you only need to perform well on the surface like a politician, because nothing can actually be done anyway. The company allows incompetent and unfair people to exercise absolute control, while also having serious issues involving complicated relationships between men and women in management. Their ideas change constantly. Meetings last three to five hours every day, and afterward nobody knows what they are supposed to do.

Only after joining do you discover that the job is completely different from what was described during the interview. (When you ask higher-ups after noticing something is wrong, they will only ask, “We hired you, so what do you want to do?!” Then why did you hire someone in the first place?) Frankly speaking, the owner says to hire people and have those below carry out the instructions, but the people doing the hiring have no idea how to make use of them. People arrive in batches and leave in batches. Every day, meetings end without any follow-up. The abuse of power is a serious problem; matters that should be escalated may simply disappear along the way. If you do not become “good friends” with the people sitting comfortably in senior positions, you are essentially done. If you find life boring, you can give it a try, but if you care about your future, think twice.