Workplace reviews and discussion: 寶島海事檢定有限公司

The company is clean and has a great view～

I’ve been working at this company for several years. During the interview, they mentioned that I might occasionally need to work shifts or reply to emails at night because of time differences for urgent overseas requests, but overtime or compensatory leave could be requested. I thought that was fine and agreed to it.

In practice, everyone basically leaves a little after 6 p.m.～

Sometimes, I can save up the overtime and use it to make up for being late in the morning by taking compensatory leave.

There are basically always snacks in the snack cabinet, especially tons of cookies after religious ceremonies～ Sometimes the boss suddenly treats everyone to drinks or afternoon tea, and occasionally there’s catered lunch, which is pretty good.

As for bonuses, they depend on how the cases are handled. Naturally, the better the work is done or the more cases are closed, the higher the bonus. Personally, I think it’s fine, and I don’t feel there’s anything particularly unfair about it～

The atmosphere at work is average and not very lively. Everyone is basically quiet and focuses on their own work. However, some people secretly form little cliques or like to suck up, which is a bit annoying. Otherwise, they’re constantly complaining about things. Although I’m a woman myself, you really do tend to encounter these kinds of situations in workplaces with a lot of women. It’s very annoying.

Also, since it’s a small or medium-sized company, there are, as with the companies I worked at before, issues with unclear systems and procedures.

Some people seem to be managers but aren’t officially our managers, so it feels like the only distinction is whether someone is senior or not（？

The work requires you to “communicate” with other people (or, to put it nicely, negotiate). Sometimes it’s quite stressful. There isn’t a particularly clear set of training materials to help you handle every situation, so you can only become more comfortable with it through experience and by doing the job longer～