Workplace reviews and discussion: 德翔海運股份有限公司

Office work; the atmosphere among colleagues is fairly harmonious (except that they ignore new hires).

1. The training plan during the probationary period was a complete mess. Simply put, after hiring me, they dumped me in the office to see which unlucky person would be assigned to train me.

There was no prior notice to that senior colleague, nor was there any standardized training process.

2. The senior colleague responsible for training me asked from the very first day whether I intended to stay. If I did not give a definite answer, they would not train me seriously.

Does every employee know from the beginning whether they will work here for ten years? What kind of commitment are they asking for? It felt like they were in a hurry to push people into a pit of fire.

They seemed afraid that after training someone, the person would quit after one or two months, as though it would waste their effort. It was as if I had to sign an indenture contract before they were willing to teach me.

If you have no intention of properly training a newcomer, just say so. I could not be bothered to feel nervous there. If you wanted to leave me sitting around doing nothing, I had no objection either.

On top of that, their tone while teaching was aggressive and intimidating. They suspected that I had already done things I had not done and demanded that I admit I had not done them.

When I asked the senior colleague questions, the answers were always completely off-topic, yet they acted as though they knew everything and put on an absurdly childish attitude. Go to hell.

3. The employees who had been there longer never greeted new hires, avoided eye contact, and were thoroughly exclusionary.

4. There were hardly any benefits. You can check the company on 104 to see just how shockingly few benefits it offers.

5. The qualifications of the office staff varied widely. Because the job required cold calling, the office was often filled with profanity after calls ended, which affected other people’s moods at work.

6. They would peek at their colleagues’ screens. They had no sense of privacy and would also discuss privately what someone had just been looking at on their screen. The whole office felt full of voyeurs; I had to shrink the text on my screen very small to avoid being seen. It was seriously sick.