Workplace reviews and discussion: 采定國際行銷股份有限公司

\b1. The customer service department, accounting, and IT department PM are easy to get along with

1. The boss is a typical exploitative Taiwanese employer. Anden Hud’s annual revenue is astonishing, and the boss drives a Porsche. The office and studio were all purchased outright rather than rented, yet he is unwilling to share the profits with employees who work with dedication. On average, each employee is made to do the work of three people, and overtime is the norm. The senior employees who have stayed there for a long time have either become accustomed to merely scraping by or are workaholics themselves, which is why they can accept being exploited in this way. There is no overtime pay for overtime work, and the boss considers this completely normal. Some people regularly work overtime until 9 p.m. to midnight.

2. The entire interview process consists of listening to the boss brag about himself, boasting about how capable he is and how inadequate other brands are. In short, you will not escape listening to him lecture for at least an hour.

3. The design supervisor (the one with the very high forehead) seems to treat his own team members fairly well, but that may not be the case with other departments. If you politely ask him to revise something—even if it may have been requested by the boss or the boss’s wife—his attitude can change 180 degrees. He may directly send you an unrestrained private message scolding you. Perhaps he thinks that, as a senior employee who also serves as a supervisor, he has two advantages because the boss trusts him, which is why his attitude is so bad. Personally, I think this reflects a problem with his character, so units that need to work with him should be careful.

4. If you are joining the marketing department, make sure to curry favor with the tall, heavyset, greasy-haired woman. She is not a supervisor (she is a PM); she is simply highly trusted by the boss. If you are very attractive or if she perceives you as competition, she will definitely team up with the brainless girls in the rest of the marketing department to ostracize you (silent treatment), and may even badmouth you to the boss. On the surface, however, she is very polite, humorous, and entertaining with other departments, while in reality she is extremely conceited and arrogant. Perhaps insecurity about her own appearance is driving her behavior; she once attacked attractive women she did not even know in the marketing group chat, directly calling them “green tea bitches.” Another thin, black-haired female PM is close to her and is also extremely rude. Anyway! It is a department where bad money drives out good—those considering joining should decide for themselves, or find a way to get along very well with them.

5. The boss appears to have a good temper, but he is extremely disrespectful of professional expertise. He thinks that having an engineering background means he should know both hardware and software engineering, and that having a marketing background means he should know every type of marketing. During interviews, he pontificates without carefully reviewing the candidate’s qualifications, then blames you after you join for not immediately meeting his expectations. That is what an exploitative boss does. Otherwise, boss, you should do everything yourself and see whether you really know how to do it all—and whether you can do everything to a perfect score.