Workplace reviews and discussion: 阿通伯樂器有限公司

Sometimes it's really quiet, provided the boss forgets you exist.

You might as well take it easy and not try to stand out—the salary is the same anyway, and it's low.

The boss will use you by any means necessary and squeeze you dry.

They pay very little but expect you to do a lot, treating you like a human Doraemon.

They also have absolutely no respect for professional expertise, thinking their own aesthetic sense is the best and that they understand everything. They are very dictatorial and insist on deciding everything themselves.

As a result, everyone has to attend regular meetings, but whether you get to participate depends on their mood and how busy they are.

They constantly change their story. For example, today they may think a direction is fine, but by the following week, when you have nearly worked out the overall structure, they will say, “Uh, this isn't what I wanted. Let's change it to something else,”

and if you argue with them—even if you have kept a verbatim transcript of the original meeting—they will still claim that you typed it incorrectly or remembered it wrong.

Every meeting always ends unpleasantly.

It feels like the boss really wants to imitate the model of happy companies abroad, with a comfortable work environment and interesting ideas. Having that vision is fine, but they have been talking about improving the company environment for almost two years, and there is still no end in sight. The so-called “interesting” initiatives are merely the boss amusing themselves.

They make grand promises and work the employees to death.

Several administrative employees have already left, and the turnover rate is extremely high. The way the boss treats employees speaks for itself.

The clock-in system is even less flexible than those at large companies. If you forget to clock in or forget your card, they deduct $1,500—half a month's perfect-attendance bonus—from your pay (officially, the total “perfect-attendance penalty” is $3,000).

They deduct money under all sorts of contrived pretexts.

There is an unlimited supply of snacks, which only became available after employees suggested it to the boss. However, the snacks are kept in the boss's office, which is normally locked, so you have to ask them whenever you want something. It feels awful.