Workplace reviews and discussion: 赫得商業攝影有限公司

You can eat the samples after filming is finished.

1. It has now become a family business. It doesn't matter if they mess up a project; they're all family anyway. They film without giving the client a script first, then get chewed out by the client afterward. Or they don't do any work and spend every day at the company doing who knows what. Even the materials for clients are delayed and mostly poorly done. If you want to work with these people, you really need to be mentally prepared to do things faster yourself. They have bloodline advantages—you simply can't beat them.

2. It's a company that shifted from graphic design to motion content, but the boss still discusses motion videos with you using a graphic-design mindset. The boss's wife doesn't understand anything at all and only thinks you're doing nothing. They don't understand how much time editing and writing proposals for tenders takes. You submit a weekly report every week, and it's the same as not submitting one at all—they still don't know what you're busy with.

3. The boss completely fails to perform the function of a boss. If there's a problem with a project → employees solve it. If there's a problem with a client → do more takes and work more overtime = employees solve it. If a client pressures you for unreasonable extras or makes unreasonable requests → employees solve it. The boss attends a meeting = employees' workload increases. If a client has questions during an external meeting → the boss first chews out their own employees. And the boss won't raise these issues beforehand either. Basically, they just wait to collect the money and are completely not on the same side as the employees.

4. Interns are used as employees. University students in related departments who see this post: absolutely do not come here for an internship. There is no one left who can teach you. They will tell you to face clients directly and handle projects. They use you as free labor, and they don't care what you want to learn or why you came here.

5. There is no clear promotion system. After your salary is adjusted once at the end of the probationary period, you won't get another opportunity. There are no bonuses or anything else; whether you complete one project or ten projects this month, you get paid the same. If you don't raise the issue yourself, you have no idea how long it will take for your salary to be adjusted. I heard that someone worked for six months but was still paid the probationary salary because they never brought it up.

6. Taking credit is a basic skill. If you don't post in the group chat every day about what you're working on and how hard it is, the boss won't know what you're doing. To say it again: the weekly report is just a joke.

7. There is no overtime pay; you can only take compensatory leave. When there is a typhoon day off, they will ask you to use your compensatory-leave hours to take the day off. WTF.

8. Projects overlap, making it very difficult to work. Within one month, you may have to handle three projects: one in pre-production, one preparing to shoot, and one in editing. Even when you're already extremely busy, the boss's wife still doesn't know what you're busy with.

9. There are many terrible projects that cannot be closed out. It's commonplace for a project you take over when you join to still be unfinished when you leave. Usually the client is the problem, but the boss can't resolve it either, so the project just languishes there.

10. For some reason, the long-term employees are all very loyal and have every kind of backstabbing behavior, including secretly reporting on others. Be careful when you join. Be especially polite to people who expect you to call them “older brother” or “older sister,” or you won't even know how you got bad-mouthed.