Workplace reviews and discussion: 財團法人台北金融研究發展基金會
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It’s really relaxed when you can slack off. The company is very small, so you can get exposure to many different kinds of work. I’ve done a lot of miscellaneous tasks, but there isn’t really any case that I can say I was fully responsible for.
The division of responsibilities is unclear and the system is disorganized, but that isn’t the employees’ fault. The employees are all easy to get along with, and there aren’t any particularly obnoxious people.
When slacking off, you feel that your life lacks challenge and value, and that you’re wasting your time. But if you don’t slack off a little, you’ll just be assigned more work, because the division of responsibilities is unclear.
The internal shared processes have major problems, with many cumbersome communication methods.
There are meetings all day long—endless meetings, including all kinds of pointless ones, such as “How should a full-time employee’s work be distributed when they take one day off?”
The work is a complete hodgepodge; you’ll basically be exposed to every kind of task, and coworkers pass their work off to one another. All the experienced employees have left, and the interns are now the strongest in terms of business performance and capabilities.
Employee turnover is high. The boss pays very low salaries—rock-bottom wages—and salaries are kept confidential. Employees are not allowed to discuss their salaries privately, even though the company makes a lot of money.
The sales roles here come with performance pressure but no performance bonuses.
If you fail to meet performance targets, your year-end bonus is deducted. The boss doesn’t like people whose opinions differ from theirs, and insisting on your own views also gets your year-end bonus deducted.
The company does not comply with the Labor Standards Act. Overtime is common, but there is no overtime pay; you can only take compensatory leave.
They care excessively about profits. Even when organizing events and seeking sponsorships, they calculate it as “the sponsorship money obtained minus the event costs”—the goal is simply to make money.