Workplace reviews and discussion: 國裕生活股份有限公司

Two months’ year-end bonus / Must have worked for at least one year

1. Lunch break is only 30 minutes, in two time slots: 12:00–12:30 or 12:30–13:00. (After deducting the time spent queuing to use the microwave, only 20 minutes remain for eating; if the boss suddenly calls and asks you to immediately handle a design task, you’ll have only ten minutes to eat.)

2. Very often, design and production work is assigned only half an hour before the end of the workday, so you have to work overtime to rush to finish it.

3. Full responsibility system, with no overtime pay; if you work overtime on holidays to support events, at most you’ll receive a compensatory day off on a weekday. (And you can’t choose Monday or Friday.)

4. If you take the high-speed rail south to support an event on a holiday, you can only claim the cost of a regular standing ticket for the round trip.

5. You have to wear a uniform to work! The uniform costs between 9,000 and 10,000, which you have to pay out of pocket first; afterward, the company reimburses you 750 per month. (OS: In other words, you’re tied to the company for a year.)

6. The actual job duties are different from what was discussed in the interview. Although the position is supposedly design-related, you also have to handle the member invoicing process, effectively doing the work of two people. (OS: If they’re short-staffed, they should hire someone instead of dumping everything on the assistant.)(OS: Generally, a design assistant supports the designer; they shouldn’t also have to handle all kinds of company matters unrelated to design.)

7. As for the workplace atmosphere, it depends on whether you can accept it. Sometimes the chairman and general manager argue in the office, and everyone outside can hear them; or the general manager yells at people... The workplace can be summed up in one word: noisy.

8. Turnover is very high, and they don’t care; they believe they can just hire someone else as long as they have money. The people who stay for a long time are usually older former employees who have returned. On top of that, there’s one person who really likes filing petty reports.

9. Even when you’re taking your own statutory annual leave, they question you about it, hoping you won’t take leave unless absolutely necessary.

Don’t ignore the warnings! I didn’t believe what others said at first and stepped into a year-long abyss. I have now resigned, and by the time I left, I was physically and mentally exhausted... It was only a year, yet my hands had already been overworked to the point of developing tendon-sheath cysts and tenosynovitis...