Workplace reviews and discussion: 自力國際工程顧問有限公司

There’s little to do and it’s very relaxed—the boss can’t get any projects, boo-hoo.

This is truly the most outrageous company I’ve ever encountered. The boss has absolutely no respect for professional expertise.

They’re best at bluffing employees and treating them like idiots, as if everyone else has no brains.

After six months, I felt things were getting more and more ridiculous, and I really couldn’t take it anymore, so I resigned and left.

When I left, I counted a total of 30 people who had either been fired by the boss or resigned during my time there.

Because it’s a small company, the boss loves giving orders personally and managing the office and work.

But they lack communication skills and have low EQ and IQ. They often forget things, change their mind, then angrily lash out and scold people for no reason.

They only understand things superficially, have no respect for professional expertise, and don’t listen to opinions. They just say employees are ignorant and stupid, then give them lessons.

After attending the lessons, I discovered they were genuinely laughable classes based on twisted reasoning. They completely denied what we were taught at school, and even dared to claim they had a PhD—it must be fake.

1. When recruiting people, they often make grand promises, but what actually gets done never matches what was originally said and differs from the agreed-upon work.

　They don’t even know what kind of employees or expertise they truly need. The employees they hire end up not knowing what they are supposed to do and leave.

　This small company wants the processes of a large company, so everything gets dragged out and becomes cumbersome. In the end, no project is done well.

　Recently, they estimated about 90% of the projects, but only the projects from right after I joined were actually moving forward.

2. The boss is incompetent and unprofessional, micromanaging many minor matters while failing to properly manage major work-related issues. Problems pile up as projects progress and conclude, and working for this company is genuinely embarrassing.

　The boss is a classic bully who picks on the weak and fears the strong: soft and submissive externally, only daring to curse people behind their backs; internally, they treat employees like dogs, cursing and yelling at them. In the end, not a single thing gets done properly, which is laughable.

3. A complete list of the boss’s micromanagement:

　Employees are required to eat lunch in the meeting room. The meeting room is not even large enough, and they keep talking about work while everyone eats. They say eating in the office will cause cockroaches to breed, which is ridiculous. Yet every Friday before leaving work, all employees must deep-clean the entire office. What’s even more absurd is that even during the pandemic, employees still had to eat together in the meeting room—the idea being that we should all die together!?

　They control employees by forbidding phone use during work hours and monitoring the websites viewed on computers. That would be understandable if there were actually work to do, but there often isn’t anything to do. Are we supposed to sleep or bring game consoles to play instead? As long as the work is completed on time, what’s the problem? They even check employees’ computer histories after work to see what websites they viewed. It’s truly disgusting! Almost everything at the company is communicated through LINE, including instructions and messages. Once, after seeing someone reply to a message on LINE, they directly ordered them to open it and show what they were discussing. The level of control is disgusting.

　They even told a former employee that they knew everything the employees said and claimed to have installed listening devices to eavesdrop.

　I’ve lost count of how many people the boss has cursed. They don’t say anything to many employees while they are still working there or confront them directly; only after those employees leave do they viciously and offensively berate them behind their backs. You frequently hear them dragging former employees out to publicly shame and curse them. Once, after many people left, they even posted a public denunciation announcing that those employees had been fired, along with the mistakes they had allegedly made and the reasons. It was truly laughable.

　In reality, of the approximately six employees, only one was fired by the boss; the rest resigned on their own.

　Several people had already resigned and completed their handovers, or had been driven out by the boss, yet the boss kept asking them to come back and finish the work. No one wanted anything to do with them.

　It was absolutely hilarious. They also spent all day saying they would sue people, but it was all talk.

4. My sincere advice is not to waste time even attending an interview. It’s extremely painful when someone who doesn’t know how to be a boss becomes one. They treat people as disposable tools and curse people whenever they feel like it, with extremely poor emotional control. Having to face an unpredictable time bomb exploding every day will eventually drive you insane.

　There is no future or prospects here. Turnover is extremely high; over the past two years, even the most senior employee stayed only one year before leaving.

　Unfortunately, the boss is a rich, extremely stingy old-school employer. As long as they have money, the company probably won’t go under.