Workplace reviews and discussion: 威翰文創股份有限公司

Taking leave is easy (although an employer is not allowed to refuse a one-day annual leave request in the first place), and there is no need to work overtime (because there is no overtime pay).

You have to be prepared to take on multiple roles as soon as you join. The position you applied for is basically not a useful reference. Small companies naturally have this kind of drawback, but this company takes it to an extreme: when they want employees to take on duties outside their job description, they call you in and tell you that you are easily replaceable, that the company is helping you plan your career and giving you room to develop, and then naturally dump the extra work on you without caring that your original duties are already far more than you can finish. You can go from procurement to sales and still be reminded not to think of yourself as sales staff. The department bonus they keep talking about has less spiritual pressure than a bow and arrow—basically zero. When you bring up a raise, you get the astonishing statement, “You can only learn this much at a small company.” Then you should do it yourself—why not lay me off, boss? The boss, the boss’s wife, and the senior office manager all have utterly bizarre logic. They expect you to use an entry-level salary to come up with every possible solution for the company, but they cannot clearly explain what needs to be done and expect you to guess. This company is the best proof of the Peter principle. Meetings are frequent, and the records can basically be completed by copying the planned items into the completed section, but the boss will still nitpick the wording because he cannot understand it. Boss, you said that writing “design” would mean there would be an attachment, but that belongs in the planned-items field, so of course there is nothing there. The attachments are all in the completed-report field—what??? A company that makes you question your common sense every day and leaves you with nothing but a giant question mark. You are not only expected to help with shipping and calculating payments, but also with packing. Because the cooperation with employees is apparently too good, the boss’s wife even preemptively took on a large volume of outsourced packaging and processing work—orders worth over one or two thousand each—and expected employees to make them by hand, while of course continuing their original duties in parallel. They treat physical labor like an idle clicker game where they are god-tier players. In the end, naturally, there was no raise or bonus either.

As my first full-time job in life, this was absolutely a shipwreck.