Workplace reviews and discussion: 允良家具裝潢有限公司

The position I was hired for was as a graphic designer. Basically, because the supervisor had poor personal time-management skills, neither the work sequence nor the workload was properly arranged. They would often ask you to rush to finish drawings just before a meeting with a client.

The store manager’s management style was based on personal preferences. If you did not accommodate the manager’s personal assistant, you would become a “frozen employee” (to avoid paying severance). Within my first month of employment, two or three sales employees had already experienced this situation. Therefore, I want to share my experience with anyone considering working for this company: please think carefully.

During my employment, I saw the manager use the same approach: first treating sales staff coldly, then causing them to resign voluntarily.

I was a graphic designer, but I saw two or three sales employees encounter the same situation, which made me feel that the company was extremely unscrupulous.

1. The company hired sales staff, but basically did not allow them to handle independent cases. They were frequently required to do clerical work for the manager and run errands for various cases (even though the company already had a manager’s assistant).

2. Because sales staff with work experience would ask whether they could bring in their own clients and take on cases themselves, the manager would begin treating them unreasonably coldly, avoiding them, and giving perfunctory answers when asked about the progress of various cases, leaving them unclear about the situation and unable to proceed with the next steps.

3. During the interview, it was not mentioned at all that the salary included a perfect-attendance bonus of 1,500. The performance bonus was also not settled monthly or quarterly; instead, it was calculated only after the client transferred the money and the goods were delivered. (All of these bonus arrangements were learned only after joining the company.)

4. Regardless of position, every employee except the manager had to spend half an hour to one hour cleaning and organizing the workplace every morning. There were also many errands and additional duties.

5. After freezing out two sales employees, the manager stopped assigning them any work and prohibited them from bringing clients to visit the company without permission. When asked about cases, the manager chose to read the messages without replying. One sales employee could not take it anymore and resigned voluntarily. As for the other, the manager claimed she was unsuitable for the position because she had taken leave without giving one day’s advance notice (she had taken half a day of personal leave because her mother had unexpectedly undergone minor surgery), and told her to leave that same day.

6. The leave had already been approved by the manager, but was later used as a reason to dismiss the employee? Is this compliant with regulations?

7. Without communicating with employees beforehand, the company divided salaries into cash and bank transfers. This affected the labor pension rights of employees by reducing the amount reported for minimum wages. (The 1,500 perfect-attendance bonus was not disclosed in advance.)

The position I was hired for was as a graphic designer. Basically, because the supervisor had poor personal time-management skills, neither the work sequence nor the workload was properly arranged. They would often ask you to rush to finish drawings just before a meeting with a client.

The store manager’s management style was based on personal preferences. If you did not accommodate the manager’s personal assistant, you would become a “frozen employee” (to avoid paying severance). Within my first month of employment, two or three sales employees had already experienced this situation. Therefore, I want to share my experience with anyone considering working for this company: please think carefully.