Workplace reviews and discussion: 宏祥紙器有限公司

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Speaking of being exhausted, I absolutely have to come and complain about this company.

(I chose a company that looks clean and beautiful, but is actually quite good at taking advantage of its employees 😈)

Never mind that it’s a family business.

Once things get busy, the family faction’s emotional intelligence is terrible 😤

What does the finished product look like?

The manufacturing process?

Professional terminology?

They just give me a structural diagram to look at as a vague description.

But what about the subsequent casing work? No one teaches you.

The boss’s son is emotional and gives unclear instructions. When I wanted to ask a question, he yelled, “Can’t you see I’m busy?”

I was still learning the inventory management software,

yet they just threw a case at me, told me to place the order, and expected me to follow up on the process.

Will anyone train me? The seniors can barely finish their own work.

The office phone never stops ringing.

Or everyone is so busy that no one is at their desk.

If there is a question about an order, it can only be put on hold.

You have to wait until someone is free, then quickly grab someone to ask.

And I’m still expected to place orders confidently. If the entire batch turns out to be wrong, wouldn’t I be the one blamed even though I’m only a small part of the operation?

Following up on progress can mean being contacted every day until the early hours of the morning.

And you tell me this is a responsibility-based system.

I don’t mind voluntarily working overtime occasionally to help you,

but if the official quitting time is 17:00 and employees are made to work overtime until 20:00–21:00 on average “every day,”

how can this be considered normal?

(Someone is assigned every day specifically to call out the 17:00 quitting time for everyone.)

Here is my advice:

1. If business is really that good, what you need to increase is the number of sales staff, sales assistants, and factory operations staff,

rather than having everyone in sales, sales support, and factory operations do everything together until everyone is overwhelmed and unable to leave on time. Only with improved efficiency will subordinates have time to train newcomers. Or are you clinging to control of the family business because you’re afraid resources will be taken away?

2. If you really want to save money, change the office hours and adjust each department’s schedule according to its work characteristics.

During off-peak periods, hire hourly workers to handle administrative tasks.

3. Please hire more warehouse staff. Warehouse management is far too important.

4. Also~~~~~~~~~~~~~when ordering lunch boxes, don’t complain. If you think a menu flyer is unappetizing, just throw it away instead of keeping it. And don’t tell me, “Although you don’t like it, some people do, so don’t throw it away.” I want to tell you: if you don’t eat it, then forget it. People who really want to eat it will find a way to get it themselves 😑 Life finds a way.

Family faction,

don’t waste half an hour of my time every day over something so trivial.

5. Could you please stop taking advantage of employees with a lunch break that starts at 12:05 and ends at 12:55?

Working tirelessly for the family business is your family’s business. But I’m sure you also have more authority—and payoffs—than other people.

Or perhaps working at your own family business makes you numb to it. But a ten-minute break is very important to us corporate wage slaves 👉👉👉👉👉 Come argue with me if you disagree.

Work and life should not be turned upside down and go against their original purpose.

But if you choose to live for work and become workaholics, that is your choice, isn’t it?

6. Boss, please respect your employees. I’m not hearing-impaired, so don’t use sign language with me! Princes and princesses of the family business, please don’t act so aggressively.

7. Employees and employers are in a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship. A sense of responsibility is necessary, but it cannot be taken to extremes.

If you want to take it to extremes, then there must be a “price,” just as there is for you: you earn more money than other people, don’t have to clock in, can leave to pick up your children whenever you want, while everyone else has to work unpaid overtime. You’re still asking about work in the middle of the night—do you expect people to get any sleep?! We start at 8 a.m., spend nearly 12 hours a day at the company including overtime, and are clearly only paid for 8:00–17:00. There’s a perfect-attendance rule, yet you love bothering people in the middle of the night, and then say the boss doesn’t like people being late!