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The colleagues are all quite easy to get along with.
There are bidet toilets in the restroom.
The company is reasonably convenient to get to.
That's all.
Before trying to understand this company, you should first look into what PUA is.
PUA was originally used for tactics such as pursuing women, but it can also be applied in the workplace. Simply put, it means first undermining your confidence, then destroying your values, so that after you have been completely broken down, you accept the company's values and become someone the company describes as "having grown."
1. The company's chairman decides everything. He is the most professional, understands everything, and knows everything. He has even taken classes in body language, so if you have the slightest problem, he can use it to chew you out.
* A colleague once ran into a former coworker at an external meeting and merely laughed at something amusing the former coworker said. Afterwards, the boss scolded them: "What did you mean by laughing like that? Were you ill-intentioned?" All because the boss "understands body language very well."
* Today he tells you to go east, tomorrow he tells you to go west, and the day after that he gets angry and asks why you went west! Then you have no choice but to turn back east, only to be called in the following week and told that you had made no progress the previous week.
* When he doesn't want to deal with something, he says that the person in that position has their own expertise and should handle it themselves! Later, he comes back and berates that person for making decisions and handling things on their own without asking him.
* To be honest, we have been quietly wondering whether he may have a cognitive impairment, and are genuinely worried about his physical condition.
2. The company absolutely loves discussions: discussing anytime, anywhere, constantly. It doesn't matter whether it's time for lunch or time to leave work—we must discuss. As if there weren't enough discussions, they also hold a consensus camp every month, gathering everyone at one location and locking them in to discuss things intensely. They even kindly let everyone stay overnight at a hotel, but at night we still have to go to the boss's room and continue discussing things until midnight.
3. During interviews, they will tell you, "We don't work overtime. Why would we need to work overtime?" Right—because overtime cannot be reported at all!
* Colleagues are forced to have dinner with doctors at night, or spend an entire day on a weekend business trip to southern Taiwan attending meetings with clients or partner organizations, and then are told this cannot be reported as overtime because "it's about building connections—how can you count that as overtime?" (Whose connections are being built—the employee's or the company's?)
* If a colleague goes abroad on a business trip for five days and the fifth day happens to be a Sunday, but they take a plane back to Taiwan that day, it is counted as a travel day and cannot be counted as overtime. Throughout the entire trip, the boss keeps pestering them to "discuss" things until midnight, leaving them unable to rest; it's the same on the plane.
4. They call people in for meetings at the slightest excuse and constantly say, "You don't understand the company." The employees are always wrong; they are never wrong.
* If the boss is unhappy with something you did that day, he will post your position on 104 that evening, until you give in or resign yourself.
* New employees in the office stay an average of 1.3 months before resigning.
* There are countless inexplicable rules, as if working here means marrying the company and selling yourself to it. Your life can only revolve around the company; nothing else is allowed to affect your work. Even on Saturdays and Sundays, when you are out, you must always provide the boss with whatever he wants, even when it is not urgent at all.
In short, if there are five advantages, there are five hundred disadvantages. Working here is oppressive and painful; standing up at six o'clock sharp to leave work seems to be a sin. Coming here can probably offset 90% of the misfortunes in your life; leaving means your luck is about to change for the better—this is no exaggeration! Many colleagues have found excellent jobs or had very good career development after leaving. If you want to experience the beauty of life after suffering, you are welcome to come here and experience it. In any case, it is very easy to be called in for a meeting and end up resigning.