Published on (UTC)
This post was submitted by a user and reflects their personal experience or opinion. The publication date is not an employment or interview date.
If you’re applying for a job at headquarters, ask for as high a salary as possible.
There won’t be any opportunities for salary increases in the future,
because the department heads have a high turnover rate.
You may be hired at an extremely high salary if you perform in the interview as though you’re highly sought after.
I’ll list a few points too.
1. The boss refuses to admit that they don’t know how to run the company. Everything is constantly changing; the only thing that never changes is that the executive vice president of operations is terrible, yet the boss is still too timid and easily swayed to remove her. Could this possibly prove that…
2. If you’re six minutes late, you have to take one hour of leave. The company has never publicly announced this rule; in any case, as soon as HR calls, you’re told to request leave.
3. After working hard all year, the boss doesn’t give out year-end bonuses or even say a word. A bag of rice as a year-end bonus? Rice that sells for NT$200 on the market? At companies with good benefits, are they worried that you’ll go hungry?!
4. Every department is constantly recruiting. It’s not that they can’t find people; it’s that people resign after working for only a short time. The boss habitually publicly humiliates former employees, always assuming that others can’t keep up with the boss’s pace. Boss, didn’t every employee come to work only after being interviewed? Shouldn’t you fire the HR manager who conducted the interviews?! You’ve brought in plenty of senior executives too.
5. People whom the boss claims are excellent are constantly parachuted in to serve as high-level department heads, such as general managers, special assistants, consultants, and directors. However, as soon as their opinions differ from those of the executive vice president of operations, these “elite reinforcements” are immediately sidelined.
6. The company has no business targets. The boss only says that this year’s revenue should reach over NT$1 billion. But does the boss even care whether the design department has the capability? I know the sales department definitely isn’t capable; everyone is just waiting for retirement, so don’t make things difficult for them either.
7. Many employees’ labor and health insurance salaries are underreported. I didn’t notice at first, but a colleague suggested checking the salary records with the Bureau of Labor Insurance, and we found that they had been substantially underreported for several years. Is there something wrong with the boss? Are you taking the 6% labor pension contributions we earned and using them to buy land?!
8. The boss thinks the company has a very high level of name recognition. What a load of crap! It’s probably better known among competitors for being ridiculed and violating regulations. Buying clothes from mainland China, removing the labels, and replacing them with K-wei labels; not paying employees overtime; making them work more than ten consecutive days without days off—the boss’s negative news coverage is your publicity strategy, right?! You should have said so earlier; we could have helped provide the information to the Bureau of Labor Insurance. There’s a lot of it.
I’ll think of more later—more things that reflect the reality, so everyone can get to know K-wei.