Workplace reviews and discussion: 南一書局企業股份有限公司(總公司)

(The following observations are from the Northern Branch)

1. Salary and benefits

If you have the ability, you can negotiate your salary; those with better qualifications can get over 40K (with industry experience). The company provides a vehicle, and there are additional performance bonuses and year-end bonuses for meeting targets. Overall, the benefits are much better than before.

2. Job content

The workplace atmosphere is relaxed. If planners have a need, they can schedule external visits, and sales schedules are generally not made difficult. Overall, the colleagues are very nice. Since this is a textbook industry, things are relatively straightforward.

(The following observations are from the Northern Branch)

1. No clear system

Promotions, administrative procedures, rewards, and penalties are basically decided by the supervisor. The company policies are there merely for reference (just like traffic lights in southern Taiwan). If the supervisor is in a good mood, nothing happens; if the supervisor is unhappy, they may tell you not to come in tomorrow. This is the same from the current general manager down to the regional managers—they act according to their moods.

Not even a few people know exactly how much bonus will be paid, or on what date (lol).

2. The brand is too weak

Whether in the elementary, middle, or high school segments, the market share is almost always last. Put nicely, it means there is always room to grow; put less nicely, no matter how hard you work, this is as far as you get. So no matter how capable you are at this company, people in the industry still see you as an ordinary person, and it will not add value to your résumé.

It is probably at Luxgen's level (lol).

In summary,

what matters in this industry is market share, and that applies equally to office and field staff. If you are choosing between Nani and another company, you might as well go to the other company.

Every company has to work overtime during peak seasons, but at Nani, overtime is almost always spent chatting, putting on an act, and wasting time. At every company, when business is good, people are nice and there is plenty of money; but at Nani, the likelihood of poor performance is much higher than elsewhere. Every company has a lot of administrative work, but Nani is the most traditional: lots of paperwork, lots of procedures, and lots of idiots (the computer and document skills are terrible). Every company's managers are emotional, but Nani's managers are the best at emotional blackmail—saying how good the company is to you, then blaming you for everything when the results are poor, QQ.

Nani has improved compared with the past, but competing publishers in the industry have improved even more. Working in the textbook business is like serving in the military; Nani is probably at the level of the Marine Corps, unfortunately without the extra pay.

Want to improve enough to surpass the others? The second-generation successor spends every day cooking and appearing in the media; the managers spend all day putting on an act and drinking, then look at the numbers and find a scapegoat to take the blame. It would be pretty good if they simply did not shut down~