Provides lunch, and some colleagues are easy to get along with

Learned how to deceive people with a guilty conscience (Does that count as an advantage?)

1. I remember someone mentioning that the year-end bonus was only NT$3,000. However, those receiving this amount were probably employees who had worked for less than a year. Even so, the year-end bonus was still appallingly low and even laughable, because even after working for more than a year, the year-end bonus was only NT$7,000—less than half a month’s salary. And the company still claims to be a “happy enterprise”!!

2. Department managers do things entirely according to their personal preferences. They allocate good resources to employees who are closer to them or know how to flatter them. For example, business opportunities under the names of departing employees that had a chance of closing were mostly assigned to these favored employees for development, resulting in an unfair distribution of resources. In addition, when these employees usually made mistakes or received customer complaints, the managers would not scold them, nor would they bring the matter up with others during the daily morning meeting. If these employees failed to mention the required number of companies participating in the company’s current promotional campaign when speaking with vendors, as the manager required every day, the manager would not reprimand them either.

3. The company only spends unnecessary money to attract job seekers to sign up as members, but the system is difficult and overly complicated to use. Therefore, even when it offers promotions such as giving out NT$10,000 red envelopes for finding a job or anniversary celebrations, it still cannot beat its competitors.

4. We also have to attend remote meetings with upper management two days a week. The opinions raised are usually not adopted and are even considered unimportant, so why waste time holding meetings?

5. Because of the pandemic and the approaching Lunar New Year, everyone’s performance was difficult to achieve, yet the company was unwilling to proactively lower everyone’s performance targets. It pressured everyone about their performance all day long, showing no empathy. Previously, the company even took VIP vendors under employees’ names that had a chance of closing—vendors that had not been successfully developed through marketing or had performance below 60%—and reassigned them to others. When performance was already poor, they still took away the vendors; it was essentially forcing people to leave.

6. The system is difficult to use, and there are not as many job seekers as on the other platform. Even the marketing pages and profile pages they launch are ridiculous. They have also promoted industry-academia collaborations that had not yet gone live to vendors, hoping to get them to pay to join. They were essentially damaging their own reputation.

7. The company provides only two days of training, so putting new employees on the job is basically a test for the colleagues around them, who have to spend time teaching them. If a new employee is unfortunately assigned next to certain emotionally volatile colleagues, they should take extra care. They may be severely scolded by the person next to them, or that person may say things like “I’ll strangle you” or “I’ll beat you to death,” scaring them away!

Fortunately, I left this company. Otherwise, if I had stayed any longer, I might have needed to see a psychiatrist.