Workplace reviews and discussion: 禾場國際有限公司

My colleagues are very NICE

1. The actual job duties differ drastically from those described in the job posting, with less than 10% similarity. Although they claimed to be offering a lecturer contract, they did not provide the guaranteed teaching hours or protections that should have been included under the contract. Every day in the office was spent doing miscellaneous tasks. As a full-time lecturer, I was not allowed to prepare lessons during working hours. The company required lecturers to observe classes using their own time without pay. I have never seen a company's training require employees to have their wages deducted.

When concerns about the job duties were raised with the supervisor, they were always brushed off with jokes, as if we were just children arguing. They completely ignored us and did not respond, no matter how many times we raised the issue.

The supervisor and boss always had the same response: criticizing me for not being good enough, saying I was incapable in one area or another. They said that because my performance was poor, I could not be scheduled to teach, but they could not provide concrete evidence such as performance targets or achievement rates. When asked to provide evidence and review the performance results, they began pretending not to hear.

2. Company policies changed constantly. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the company had no policies at all; every decision was made entirely according to the boss's preferences.

Something decided in the morning could be changed in the afternoon—or no, it could change immediately.

The boss would delay making decisions and then blame employees for being inefficient, even saying to employees: “You can waste your own time, but you cannot waste mine.”

3. Part-time teachers were treated with extreme disrespect: one way in public and another behind their backs. In front of the part-time teachers, the boss pretended to be very kind to them and claimed that the teachers' feedback was intended to help the company grow and improve. Behind their backs, however, the boss called the teachers ungrateful and said things like: “Only this place would hire inexperienced teachers like you. You don't even know how to be grateful, yet you still dare to make so many demands. If this continues, we'll replace all of you.”

4. The company had a flat organizational structure, so one person had to do the work of several people. The boss also treated everyone as personal secretaries. Whenever the boss thought of a task, they would loudly call out to employees outside the office. Employees were expected to handle finance, accounting, general affairs, and HR all at once—more powerful than Jay Chou's Superman Who Can't Fly!!

5. When employees resigned, the boss never reflected on the company's situation or on how employees had been treated. Instead, the boss simply assumed that everything was the employees' fault: their work efficiency was poor, it was a personality problem, or they had been negatively influenced by other former employees. The boss genuinely believed that they had never wronged any employee and were the kindest and most considerate boss.

However, this supposedly wonderful boss most liked to make employees leave by telling them to quit on the same day. The legally required notice period was completely disregarded. Instead, employees were told to work until that day and not come back the next day—effectively being kicked out immediately.

6. As an education and learning company, after collecting students' fees, the company did not focus on how to educate students properly. The teaching materials were full of errors, and even after students reported the problems countless times, nothing was changed. The company only thought about how to extract more money from students, encouraging them to buy more essential oils and pressuring teachers to sell products. If sales performance was poor, it meant that you were teaching poorly, were not a good teacher, and that students did not like you. The company would then indirectly reduce your teaching hours. Everything was entirely sales-oriented, with no respect for teachers' expertise. If that was the case, the company should not have claimed to be in education while actually letting sales performance determine everything and treating teachers' hard work preparing lessons with contempt.