Workplace reviews and discussion: 登盛企業股份有限公司

The three annual bonuses aren’t particularly large, but they do show sincerity. You hardly need to use your brain at work—it’s practically a place to coast into retirement.

The boss is conceited and thinks he knows everything. He didn’t study nutrition, yet he tries to direct the R&D and nutritionists professionally; he didn’t study business, yet he tells marketing how to promote products; reportedly having worked in sales, he instructs the sales team in ways that offend clients and then shifts the blame onto them; he didn’t study industrial engineering, yet he insists on designing the factory’s partitioning and pipeline layout himself, and it still isn’t finished after more than three years.

He keeps blaming employees for failing to sell the products, but there isn’t even a factory, and he won’t provide a single photo—how are we supposed to promote anything? He always acts superior, as if he understands everything and is the ultimate professional, issuing ignorant commands that make people want to laugh. What’s shameful isn’t his ignorance, but the foolishness of being so concerned with saving face.

He is very afraid that employees will have nothing to do, so he often demands useless reports or surveys. He provides no resources and refuses to spend any money, yet still expects marketing to be done. He is very impatient and likes to interfere in everything, but he never takes the time to understand the situation. He immediately gives orders, refuses to listen to explanations, and makes things worse. To save face, he insists on handling matters his incorrect way, then later blames employees for not handling things properly.

The company has been operating for 30 years, but its scale has never been able to grow. Compared with competitors that have been in business for 10 years, the gap is enormous. There are probably only two employees who have been here for more than 10 years. The people in truly important roles—R&D and sales—are generally replaced with a new group about every two years. Their management skills are genuinely impressive: there is always a cheaper batch of fresh recruits.