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Overtime pay, compensatory leave, missed-meal allowance, and an attendance bonus for working past 10 p.m.
That is also the only advantage.
1. There is an enormous temperature gap between the Sales and Graphic Design departments. Sales treats Graphic Design like dogs.
2. It is a family business. The sons and daughters are all in Sales, so it goes without saying who gets blamed when something goes wrong.
3. Graphic Design is guarded like thieves. They all think Graphic Design slacks off at work, or that Graphic Design simply does not want to do this or that.
4. If you suggest ways to improve the workflow, the company treats you as a troublemaker.
5. The owner and all the managers think overtime is only natural.
6. The owner once said personally that advertising agencies do not have quitting time.
7. The head of Graphic Design is useless. They do not manage what you are doing, but conversely, when people give you shit, they will not stand up for you either.
8. While a project is in progress, if you want to leave work, you have to report it to Sales. You can only leave when Sales says it is okay.
9. Every problem here is considered your own problem.
10. The credibility of the owner's private promises to employees is probably only one-tenth.
In short, if you want to do design, do not come here. If you are interested in printing or large-format graphics, do not come here either.
If you take freelance projects outside, please do not come here and waste your time.
If you want to do window-display or merchandising design, do not come here either, because this is not that kind of company.
I could fill the remaining four thousand words, but I am afraid you would not finish reading them.
I worked here for three years and watched many people come and go. Not a single issue that was raised was ever resolved.
Everything gets defined as a communication problem—and specifically, a communication problem between you and other people.
In short, do not come here and waste your time.
Before I resigned, I saw two Graphic Design employees arguing with Sales. Sales directly yelled, "Fuck your mother," and other filthy insults at the Graphic Design employee, and nothing happened.
Then the Graphic Design employee left soon afterward. I do not know whether they resigned or were forced out, lol.