Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣二版有限公司

There is a lot of freedom to work in your own way, the lunch break is 1.5 hours, and the boss basically doesn’t interfere with you.

*The job responsibilities described during the interview are very different from the actual work, especially if you perform too well—all the work will end up falling on you.

*The heartfelt conversations during the interview are completely meaningless in the office afterward. Everything becomes your responsibility because you are capable of doing it all.

*There are very few colleagues, and the turnover rate is extremely high. Only one person in the entire company knows all the ins and outs of the business, because they have been there the longest.

*When you point out that the actual work does not match what was discussed in the interview, your supervisor will tell you that she went through the same thing, that you should not care too much because that is how you grow, and then give you even more work from different departments.

*The company outsources its accounting to an accounting firm. The accountant does not provide pay slips unless you ask for one yourself; even when you contact them, they may get angry and act reluctant to provide it. Salaries may be calculated incorrectly, labor and health insurance deductions are not accurate, and the employer’s 6% labor pension contribution is deducted from your salary, which completely violates the Labor Standards Act. The company advertises a 1.5-hour lunch break, but that is also a smokescreen: salary calculations start directly from 7.5 hours, so everything is a complete mess, and no one can understand how it is calculated.

*The company consists only of the switchboard, marketing, inside sales, and customer service engineering departments, with fewer than 10 people in total. The boss and the person in charge are both in Hong Kong. The boss has a terrible attitude. If you do not address her as “you” in the honorific form or “boss,” she becomes unhappy. Whenever she emails you—even if she writes only two or three words—you must reply, otherwise she will blacklist you.

Based on all these experiences, I still did not feel that they were enough to break the final straw. I applied for a channel sales position, which was part of the marketing department, and including me there were only three people in it. The most outrageous thing was that my supervisor—the same person who interviewed me and who was also the supervisor of every department as well as the HR manager—would most often answer any question by saying, “Huh~ I don’t know!”

There were so many other bizarre things that I cannot even put them into words. It was truly a whole new experience in 2020. It is amazing that a company like this could be the exclusive agent for well-known products in Taiwan. I’m sharing this experience with everyone in the hope that nobody else will go down the wrong path!!