Workplace reviews and discussion: 雄獅鉛筆廠股份有限公司

1. You get gifts on your birthday: lots of pencils, and occasionally even expired colored pencils, or one or two dozen pens of the same color. Even if you discover as soon as you open a pen that it has no ink, you can keep opening, exchanging, and opening more until you find one with ink. You definitely never have to worry about running out of ink. Great!

2. Team leaders and section managers frequently sexually harass people during meetings, and nothing happens. They don’t even spare young women who have just graduated from school. When they finish speaking, everyone bursts into laughter. It’s a company with a very harmonious atmosphere.

3. The company has an extremely high proportion of long-term employees, who will constantly inquire about your private life and offer advice. They proactively show you endless concern: why you’re not married yet, whether you’ve bought a car, how much you’ve saved, whether you’ve bought a house, whether you invest, how much rent you pay, how much you save each month, and so on. They guide you like your own elders. Very heartwarming.

4. There are truly far too many long-term employees. There are countless old managers who are already able to retire, but nobody is willing to leave. Newcomers run into obstacles everywhere, and nobody genuinely wants to teach them properly. They suppress anyone who stands out: the more capable you are, the more the veterans hold back. They tell you the wrong things, leaving you in an impossible position. On top of that, the grudges between departments run deep—after all, each manager has been there for 30 or 40 years. They only care about staying longer and receiving a higher pension. They don’t care about young disposable employees coming and going, and will push you out to step on land mines and die at any time. Every workday is thrilling. It’s great—like playing real-life Minesweeper.

5. Following from the above, although the chairman actively wants to reform and innovate, the long-term employees only ever want to muddle through each day. The company will never improve; it preserves its old-fashioned charm.

6. Also following from the above, a lot of information looks as though it has been digitized, but it is actually just for show. When you really need to look something up, you still have to search through old documents or ask the long-term employees. The long-term employees will also use this as an opportunity to bargain with you for some benefits, fostering closer relations, saying that telling you these things is “teaching you.” Very touching—teaching and learning from each other. Many key pieces of information and technologies are also kept by the long-term employees and have never been put into written form. The boss even thinks it’s impressive that the long-term employees can solve every problem whenever one arises. What a humorous company, so interesting.

7. HR is especially kind when you resign. They will tell you things like you shouldn’t insist on looking at the Labor Standards Act for everything. Company rules take precedence over the Labor Standards Act. The company will try to decide your resignation date for you directly, so you won’t have to waste extra energy on these boring matters when you leave. So considerate.

Personally, I think they’re all advantages and there aren’t really any disadvantages. If I had to force myself to name one, it would be that although it’s an old Taiwanese brand, it sells many China-made products—for example, Butter Lion~

Everyone, hurry up and submit your résumés!! Highly recommended~ I sincerely mean it~~