Workplace reviews and discussion: 異軍互動娛樂股份有限公司

To reiterate, everything said on Goodjob is true!!!

Instead of expecting benefits, you’d better bring your own iodine tincture.

At least you’ll have some consolation when your spirit gets wounded.

A thoughtful reminder: Before reading further, I suggest first checking out the review that gave Pulitzer 22 shortcomings.

Warning: This company contains large amounts of urban legends.

Let’s start with the environment. Basically, it’s a sham company located in an old office building that looks like it could abscond with everyone’s money at any moment. There’s no atmosphere to speak of. It’s small and cramped, and people passing by will constantly bump the backs of your chairs or kick your chair legs. Fans of bumper cars are welcome.

The boss uses a cheap old wooden desk by himself—it’s neither properly wooden nor not wooden—and enjoys an unbeatable ocean view by the window. A single bright lamp above his head makes his shiny bald head look even more glaring. There are three gleaming golden eggs on the boss’s desk; it looks like a fortune-teller’s or charlatan’s tea table. Two office chairs are placed in front of it, and sitting down gives you the feeling that you’ll be brainwashed into joining a cult that scams people into dual cultivation.

The toilets are outside and shared by the entire floor. Dirty and smelly.

There is also a pantry shared by the entire floor. Dirty and smelly.

In summer, the air conditioning is so ineffective that all you can think is: dirty and smelly.

Remember to bring air freshener to work, because besides all of the above, you’ll also have several strong-smelling colleagues. Fans of pungent flavors are welcome.

There’s a legend that the office is going to move. You hear about it from the day you join until the day you leave, but it turns out to be nothing more than a rumor. One bit of gossip says the boss only wants to move to a different floor in the same building. Boss, how’s that progress coming?

Important addition: When you come for an interview, please don’t be fooled by the dolls and figurines displayed on the left side of the entrance. Those characters have absolutely nothing to do with the company; they’re displayed purely to make people feel sad. Every time you walk past them, tears well up in the corners of your eyes.

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As for the salary—sorry, it really is probably the industry minimum! Anyone in an earlier post who said the pay was high is either an undercover plant or a “Kepo” [an insider]. If you insist on coming for an interview, remember to state a higher expected salary. Salary cuts are standard, okay? ^^ They cut quite a lot, okay? ^^ Too expensive, can’t afford you, okay? ^^

There’s a legend that salaries are adjusted after six months of employment, but in my case, they were never adjusted even once. I only dreamed about one employee working themselves to death and then receiving a tiny salary adjustment. Those wanting to experience the Avīci hell are welcome.

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【Company Benefits】

According to the official announcement on the job website, here is an additional description:

1. Bonuses: We offer a generous project bonus system; greater effort brings greater returns.

>>> Mm-hmm, sure! In a dream, one employee received a whopping NT$900 in a certain month.

2. Insurance: Business-trip travel accident insurance and occupational accident insurance.

>>> ................. No comment.

3. Benefits: The company provides free tea, coffee, and snacks.

>>> All-you-can-eat Eight-Treasure Congee, unlimited Eight-Treasure Congee, long live Eight-Treasure Congee. There’s instant noodles and coffee powder; figure out how to brew it yourself. This company’s snacks follow an evergreen strategy: the snacks you see on the shelves when you join may still be there on your final day. People with older tastes may enjoy them. Remember to check whether they have expired.

4. Subsidies: Wedding gifts, childbirth gifts, funeral condolence payments, and retirement contributions.

>>> ??????? This is on the level of an urban legend. No one has ever actually received any of it.

5. Two-day weekend system.

>>> Sorry, this is genuinely hilarious. A two-day weekend can count as a company benefit?

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Next, this is a company that constantly adjusts people’s duties.

Why do I say that?

When you think you applied to be an ad buyer, sorry—you’re a senior operator.

When you think you applied to be the boss’s executive assistant, sorry—you’re an ad buyer.

When you think you applied for a planning position, sorry—you’re in project management.

When you think you applied for graphic design, sorry—you’re doing motion editing.

When you think you applied to be a PM, sorry—you’re a senior art director.

When you think you applied to be a PM assistant, sorry—you’re customer service plus a social-media editor.

When you think you applied to be a marketing manager, sorry—you’re merely a presentation template.

When you think you applied to be an accountant, sorry—you’re HR plus a professional jack-of-all-trades.

When you start having doubts about your duties, sorry—business adjustment. Bye-bye.

P.S. If you call the Ministry of Labor, you might hear them complaining about how this company is constantly laying employees off.

On your last day, you’ll discover that you were in Department A when you joined and Department B when you left—and you yourself have no idea how the department transfer happened (listed as the company’s latest rumor).

Too many examples to list....

There’s supposedly an employee welfare committee, but in reality it’s just the boss randomly pointing at people with his golden finger. The committee currently has one member. Even when work is busy as hell, the boss still complains that the welfare committee has made no progress. The boss will repeatedly hint that he personally wants to go sea fishing and soak in hot springs, while completely ignoring colleagues who are allergic to seafood and still have to attend the year-end dinner. One suspects he wants to use “sea fishing” as a cover for actually making a run for it. Fans of older men may enjoy the hot-spring portion.

Incidentally, the year-end dinner is forever held at Hai Pa Wang. Mysterious office gossip will tell you that this time it will definitely be at 3 Mackerel, but in the end you’ll still only show up at Hai Pa Wang, making you wonder whether you’ve entered a parallel universe. The dinner follows a “you eat yours, I’ll say mine” format. Company big shots may share ghost stories about rat spirits, python spirits, and so on—apparently a complete collection of jokes from the ’80s and ’90s generations. They’re supposedly true stories. People who enjoy large quantities of useless knowledge are welcome.

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【Special Culture】

1. A small company with fewer than 20 people in sight, half of whom hold managerial positions.

2. There are always names you’ve never seen and colleagues who never show their faces. Very mysterious.

3. You’ll hear about many projects related to your own role, but they never have anything to do with you. The main reason is that the boss advocates simply copying other people.

4. The boss is a die-hard Korean entertainment fan. It’s recommended that you avoid letting your political stance be discovered.

5. Refusing a company request will get you laid off.

6. That’s right: it’s one person calling all the shots.

7. The boss doesn’t make decisions; a certain manager only steps out to maintain stability when necessary.

8. The so-called “friends” the boss brings in are only there to serve as punching bags, and afterward he completely ignores them.

9. The boss changes orders from morning to evening. We suspect senility; please, someone kindly persuade him to see a doctor.

10. The boss is a frog in a well. When he thinks of a technology that others came up with ten years ago, he thinks he’s a genius and amazing.

11. The boss believes that adding duties is giving you a learning opportunity.

12. The boss doesn’t care whether your report contains anything substantive; he only cares whether your presentation looks good.

13. A company with mainland-Chinese thinking. Those wanting to experience a local mainland Chinese enterprise are welcome.

14. Long live piracy.

15. There are no fixed working hours, but this may become a reason to lay you off.

16. You can often be late, take a month to carry out a task, watch dramas and YouTube, and scroll Plurk at work—but you can’t have ideas.

17. There’s a chance that being too opinionated once in a meeting will result in the boss refusing to invite you to meetings ever again.

18. In meetings, you can learn how to keep talking without seeming to say anything.

19. Always be careful of flakes of skin and stray hairs flying in from nowhere.

20. The company can’t afford a cleaning lady, so employees take turns on cleaning duty each week. Managers are exempt from cleaning. Hmm? You say I wrote above that half the staff are managers? Yes—so what?

21. The most important part of the company system is the cleaning system, which is revised from time to time according to the boss’s mood. Keep up with the company’s pace.

22. You’ll receive a thoughtful reminder on your way home after work telling you not to forget to clean.

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【Top Ten Classic Quotes】

1. “There’s something strange about your idea.”

2. “You shouldn’t write 10,000; you should write ‘ten thousand.’”

3. “Come in for a moment.”

4. “Your presentation isn’t good.”

5. “Take the cheap/easy way out.”

6. “Naming gets 500.”

7. “Good cats and bad cats—the ones that catch mice are good cats.”

>>> (Every time I hear this, I want to correct them: it’s black cats and white cats.)

8. “In the business world, whatever makes money is a good strategy.”

>>> (The same person as in the previous quote. With his collection of sayings, he could publish a terrible business book and scam people out of royalties.)

9. “You’re not suited to the gaming industry.”

10. “I refuse.”

>>> (You may not hear this one anymore, but it’s too classic not to record.)