Workplace reviews and discussion: 近代旅行社有限公司
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Many talented actors, with real-life reality-show performances as entertaining as a Taiwanese soap opera every week
In one sentence: family businesses are a disaster.
1. Since it is family-run, the boss’s entire family can do whatever they want. During normal working hours, they burn incense and pray, play Buddhist scriptures, and roast sausages in the office.
2. The number of overtime hours worked on weekdays and holidays is whatever the boss says it is. If you report fewer hours in response, your supervisor will even block the submission.
3. Bonuses agreed upon during the interview can be delayed for several months because the company cannot properly settle its own accounts. Previous colleagues have even experienced delays of more than a year. Basically, you only receive the base salary; if you cannot hold out and resign midway, they simply treat the bonuses as though they never existed.
4. The general manager has extremely poor emotional control. During morning meetings, she boasts that the company only makes money because of her, and she criticizes every employee. Even employees who have done nothing wrong get subjected to a long stream of completely illogical remarks, as she pretends to understand everyone’s work progress. She also gets into heated arguments with her parents in front of the entire company, making everyone uncomfortable, then taunts them by saying she is quitting. The next day, she continues coming to work, grinning and joking with everyone as if nothing happened.
5. The company talks about performance all day long: no performance means no bonus. Yet the boss and his wife often travel together while leading group tours in the name of work. In addition to making the company cover one extra person’s travel expenses, the two of them fly business class for the entire trip, costing over NT$100,000 or even NT$200,000 per trip, repeatedly dragging down the group’s performance.
Overall, I recommend this company only to friends who feel that life is too boring, have too much time on their hands, and want to broaden their horizons.