Workplace reviews and discussion: 新高橋生技股份有限公司

A model terrible job

On my first day, they said that the salary we had agreed on only applied when various bonuses were included. The base salary was actually much lower than the amount listed on the recruitment website—a huge difference. HR also claimed that this had already been explained over the phone, but when I asked whether the bonus would definitely amount to that much, HR said they would have to check, which showed that they had never asked about or mentioned it in the first place. It is extremely dishonest for such a long-established company to behave this way. I still joined to see what it was like because of the brand, but the office atmosphere was very tense, the desks were tiny, and it was the most cramped office I had ever worked in. I also constantly felt watched. Almost anything could result in someone reporting you, and even small group chats created simply to confirm work matters might not be allowed. Although the senior management are Christians, employees who do not have special connections still apparently need psychic abilities: this was the first company I had encountered that did not show new employees around or introduce them to the department, yet expected them to nod and greet certain supervisors when they saw them. I do not have psychic abilities, so I had to keep secretly glancing at these managers and executives to memorize their faces. They even inspected our bags when we left work, which violates personal-data protection laws. They said we could not reply to private messages during work hours, yet also required us to help promote posts during work hours. I really had no idea how to handle this, and was extremely afraid that using social media would result in someone reporting me, so I could only deal with it after work or during breaks. The supervisor was difficult to deal with. If I reminded the supervisor about something that had not yet been replied to or confirmed, they would become furious and berate me. They would even imagine things that subordinates had not done and scold them for those things, which was completely absurd. Everything had to be done immediately, but deadlines were rarely provided, so there was little time to work. They had no sense of priorities whatsoever, making it easy for some work not to meet the supervisor’s expected efficiency, after which they would criticize the subordinate’s work efficiency. Sometimes they would say something was urgent at first, only for it to turn out in the end that the process had not even reached that stage. It was utterly ridiculous. I have not encountered this myself yet, but they explicitly said that on-site market research would have to be done during our own off-hours. For a company of this size and with such a long history, that is truly laughable.