Workplace reviews and discussion: 有限責任台灣主婦聯盟生活消費合作社

Finishing work at 5 p.m., with meals provided (although when there is a large quantity of a certain dish, you may need to eat the same dish for an entire week in a row, and sometimes the food is overly greasy or salty, I am still grateful).

1. There are many bosses. Besides your supervisor, employees, board members, and supervisors can all come and tell you to do things, and they can change the direction of your work at any time, so you need to be prepared to do pointless work frequently.

2. There are indeed a few people within the cooperative system who genuinely respect employees, but in recent years, more and more directors have treated employees as gofers and servants. They say things like “You’ve worked hard” and that employee and member staff should cooperate and respect each other... but it is all hypocritical. In reality, they consider themselves the bosses, and employees are expected to obey. (I still remember that during new employee training they said cooperatives were different from outside companies—ridiculous.)

3. If you only want a stable job to coast toward retirement, you may consider it. If you are looking for career development, forget it; almost all supervisors are recruited from outside.

4. The inferior drive out the superior: people with weaker abilities are given less work so that supervisors do not have to clean up afterward, while capable people are given more work, supposedly to “cultivate” them, but the pay is more or less the same.