Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣微告股份有限公司

1. Most of my Taiwanese colleagues are great and easy to get along with

2. Flexible work style; you can work at your own pace

3. Flexible start and finish times—come in early, leave early

Although I left the company a year ago, after seeing the reviews left here by junior colleagues, as the person who was once targeted the most, I feel I should come up and add some personal experience. Everything below is an unexaggerated factual account of what happened during my employment.

Background: I joined the company as an inexperienced university graduate during the previous boss’s tenure and was not interviewed by the current boss.

・Salary

First, let’s talk about the objective issue of salary. We won’t mention the actual amounts.

My salary after working there for “three months” under the previous boss = the salary of a junior colleague after working there for “one year and eight months” under the current boss.

・Taking the blame for a Japanese colleague

As the person responsible for ad operations, I launched an advertisement at the instruction of the Japanese account manager (Y), who was responsible for communicating with the client. Later, Y realized they had made a mistake and came to yell at me first, then reported my alleged work error to the boss. As a result, the mistake became entirely my responsibility, and I was punished for it—I was removed from a project that I had built up from scratch and managed myself.

Even though the chat records were clear, and I had even held a meeting with Y to discuss the ad delivery status after the campaign had started, there was ample evidence, but the boss only listened to the Japanese employee’s version. The boss even said that I must have misread the other person’s Japanese. (What is there to misread about “配信お願いします”—“Please launch the ad”?)

Throughout this incident, I tried my best to clarify who was responsible. I was not claiming to have no responsibility at all; I maintained that the account manager and I should share the responsibility. It was probably after this incident that I began facing a series of targeted attacks and efforts to suppress me.

・The boss said they disliked my work attitude

When I asked face-to-face what specific aspect of my work attitude they were dissatisfied with, the boss could not provide any concrete examples and eventually answered:

“I don’t like that you always work alone when you’re at work.”

??? Is it also wrong to focus on my work instead of fooling around and laughing with colleagues all over the place? Hehe.

・The boss said I was irresponsible

Basically, everyone would take their computers home on weekends, and I was no exception. I would take mine home on weekends and long holidays (I even brought it with me when traveling abroad, and updated the figures and checked the status of cases in the backend every morning and evening).

After one long holiday, I was called in by the boss because the Japanese account manager mentioned earlier, Y, complained that I had not handled the account during my holiday.

The boss’s first words were: “You didn’t take your computer home during your holiday, right? You’re really irresponsible.”

??? The boss was also in the group chat for that account. That day, after I got up at noon and saw the messages, I worked continuously until after 9 p.m. Sleeping until noon during a long holiday isn’t excessive, is it? Spending an entire day of my holiday responding to messages and adjusting ads without overtime pay was already infuriating enough, but the boss of this company apparently didn’t even open the account messages to see who was working overtime during the holiday. Hehe.

(This further confirmed that the boss does not distinguish right from wrong—what matters is the person, not the issue.)

・The second time the boss said they disliked my work attitude

I asked again for the specific reason, but once again they could not give me a concrete answer. Eventually, the boss replied:

“Because you never help answer the phone or collect packages.”

??? Excuse me, there has never even been a phone near my desk! My desk was never by the entrance either. However, whenever I happened to pass by and encountered a package that needed to be signed for, I did help collect it. So apparently work attitude is evaluated based on answering the phone and receiving packages. Hehe.

・The boss said I did not put the company first

Once, the boss scheduled an internal company camping event on a weekend, but I could not attend for personal reasons. I explained to the boss that the personal reason was: “My grandmother had surgery and was hospitalized, and I needed to return to my hometown to visit her that weekend.”

I really do not understand why a company event had to be scheduled on a weekend outside working hours, why I had to account to the boss for my private plans during my private time, or why I was expected to value the company more highly than my own family.

・The second time the boss said I was irresponsible

As usual, I asked the boss for the reason and specific examples of my alleged irresponsibility. As usual, they could not identify anything in my work that I had failed to do properly. After mumbling and struggling to explain, the boss told me, “You have to think of it yourself!”

This time I replied, “I can’t think of anything. Please tell me specifically.”

The boss said, “Anyway, you’re just irresponsible! If I say you’re irresponsible, then you’re irresponsible!”

There were many other incidents, but some involve other colleagues, and some concern the boss’s personal conduct, so I will not go into them for now.

As for the state of the company’s other internal systems, I left some time ago, so they have probably changed substantially, and I will not say much about them either.

Overall, it was more or less the same as what the original poster explained in the previous post.

I used to be able to proudly say that I worked for a company where employees were happy.

After the boss changed, I was essentially forced to watch a happy workplace be destroyed.

The turnover rate after the new boss took over has also been remarkably high.

The above is provided as a reference for everyone currently looking for a job. If you read this and still decide to work there, all I can say is: you make your choice, and you bear the consequences.

Alternatively, you could try being more ingratiating—learn how to flatter people and cling to those in power. If you have nothing in your head, you might still be able to live a good life. ^_^