Workplace reviews and discussion: 渥得室內裝修有限公司

1. There is no clear attendance policy; taking leave or arriving late does not result in salary deductions. However, you must attend the morning meeting on time, otherwise the surveillance cameras will become a third eye watching you.

2. Meetings are often prolonged and ineffective. If you enjoy having meetings every day as part of your work, congratulations—this job is perfect for you. The boss may not accept suggestions because they already have ideas in mind and expect the people below them to guess what they are thinking.

3. The boss has an immature mindset. Colleagues who often cause problems at work (senior executives, department heads, and managers who rarely appear at the company) can simply get away with it by coaxing and deceiving the boss.

4. The work environment is quite beautiful—a company that is all style and no substance.

1. Claims to be a startup company, yet has no rules or systems whatsoever (the goal is to become the Amazon of the building-materials industry! They have a wealthy father. Incidentally, one year they told employees they had not made any money, but the following year they bought a new car costing more than seven million [New Taiwan dollars].)

2. No bonuses for the three major holidays. There are occasional gift boxes, and occasionally the boss treats everyone to pastries. Year-end bonuses are distributed according to the boss’s mood, and you might not even receive a month’s salary (there are no performance evaluation standards whatsoever).

3. Management relies entirely on emotional management. They like to assign employees work outside their actual duties, and if you fail to guess the answer already in the boss’s mind, they will criticize you for not working hard, lacking ambition, and being incapable.

4. The topics discussed in countless ineffective meetings frequently go around in circles because employees are expected to guess the answer in the boss’s mind during the meeting.

5. Female employees are treated disrespectfully, including excessive physical contact, intense staring, and putting an arm around their shoulders.

6. The managers did not major in design-related fields, and even the only manager who appears to have a related degree frequently makes mistakes. The subordinates they manage do not recognize this supervisor’s abilities. The biggest problem is that the boss does not know how to respect professional expertise and loves criticizing points related to the interior-design profession. On what basis? Based on just over ten years of engineering experience, they think their own design work has reached a certain level (they like to give directions behind the backs of professionals). But engineering and design are separate professions, aren’t they? If so, does that mean renovation contractors can also become interior-design masters?

7. Engineering projects often begin without the protection of a contract for no apparent reason. Unprofessional project-management procedures mean that design changes and additions or deductions to the account are rarely signed off, often ultimately making it impossible to recover project payments. Management refuses to take responsibility, and erroneous decisions drain employees’ energy and lead to staff turnover.

9. There are two companies, each run separately by one of two brothers. During meetings, it is often obvious that one person dominates strongly, suggesting they grew up in an extremely indulgent environment—an adult baby? In any case, the problem ultimately cannot be resolved, and the meeting ends without conclusion.