Workplace reviews and discussion: 富味鄉食品股份有限公司

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Do not go to work there under any circumstances. You will be bullied in the workplace by Lin Xiurong, who has worked there for more than 30 years, as well as by the graphic designer. Lin Xiurong works there as a special assistant (because she is entangled in lawsuits and cannot serve as vice president, she can only hold the title of special assistant). She has no marketing or public relations skills, but because she has been there for so long, she was put in charge of the marketing and sales departments. The company owner will not intervene out of consideration for her, so Lin Xiurong is in charge of all sorts of matters throughout the company, and no one dares to stand up for justice. She treats almost all colleagues very harshly (she is only relatively friendly with two people in her department whom she has worked with for a longer time. She buys them lunch and panders to the graphic designer and female PM colleague, and does not dare require them to work seriously. If the graphic designer says she will not create a design, then she does not create one. For “the entire day,” the office is filled with Lin Xiurong’s angry shouting and scolding. Anything can be unfairly blamed on the “colleagues who are easy to bully.” Lin Xiurong praises your writing today, saying it is pretty good, but the next day the veteran graphic designer says she does not like the article, and Lin Xiurong will scold you: “How could you write such a terrible article?” If you say a few words to other colleagues, you will be angrily scolded: “What were you talking about with the other colleagues? How can you chat at work?” …and so on—countless frightening and shocking stories.

I personally experienced several months of workplace bullying. Going into the office every day felt like entering hell. I was afraid to speak to her—even to hand over work—because anything I said could get me yelled at. I also could not chat with my colleagues, because they were afraid to talk to me too, worried that they would be blacklisted or that Lin Xiurong would dislike them. Finally, one day I gathered the courage to report the workplace bullying to the labor department. Only then did the vice president step in to mediate and agree to issue documentation of involuntary termination so that I could receive unemployment benefits. (It was completely impossible to tell during the interview. Lin Xiurong is a middle-aged woman who “appears” very friendly and will say things like, “I really admire you and like you!”)