Workplace reviews and discussion: 理財周刊股份有限公司

The only advantage is the convenient location; otherwise, it has nothing going for it.

1. Old and hot office environment: Located in an old building, the interior environment is terrible. Every time I take the elevator, it feels too small and cramped, creating a strong sense of oppression. The elevator may not even have air conditioning, making it very stuffy.

2. Extremely lacking in structure: Policies are decided by the president and the audit department. The bonus system can also change constantly. At first, they say there is a bonus, but in the end they keep delaying it, using various methods to stall or cut your performance rating so that you no longer qualify for a bonus. Even submitting a formal request is useless; the audit department will only tell you that it was approved previously and does not count now.

3. So stingy they do not even provide enough toilet paper: Each month, male employees are allocated one roll of toilet paper and female employees two rolls. Use it sparingly.

4. Monitoring employees: The president uses surveillance cameras to monitor whether employees are obediently staying at their desks. They even check the cameras when you take leave. If you apply for official leave after returning from a business trip, it may be rejected on the grounds that you did not request it in advance. They do everything they can to deduct money from you. The president also likes to see people working overtime; ideally, you should not apply for compensatory leave either, because that is what makes a “high-quality” employee. Once you “quibble” with the company, the president will hold it against you.

5. Extremely chaotic division of responsibilities among departments: If this unit cannot handle its workload, it will not outsource it or ask other units for support. Instead, you may be assigned work that does not belong to your own unit. Management calls this “making the most of internal resources” and says not to make the company incur “costs.”

6. Forget about bonuses for the three traditional holidays: Do not dream of getting the company to spend money. There are only gifts for the three holidays, and even those gifts were obtained by internal employees through advertising exchanges. If you want a gift, you have to contribute your own labor.

7. An incredibly clichéd “Lizhou Song”: As soon as you join the company, training requires you to learn the president’s life philosophies and sing an extremely tacky “Lizhou Song.” If you do not sing it for the president after completing three months, you are considered an employee who lacks a sense of belonging and cannot become a regular employee. As a result, you cannot receive benefits such as a birthday gift—which are not particularly good anyway.

8. The president likes listening to flattery: Whenever the president posts some content from clickbait “content farms” in the company group, everyone has to hurry over and praise it.

9. Year-end banquet and Lunar New Year prize drawings are very unfair: They are calculated according to seniority, meaning that executive assistants who have worked there for 20 years will always win the major prizes.

10. No year-end bonus: Company policy states that if you choose to receive bonuses during the year, you will not receive a year-end bonus; you have to choose between the two. But then the bonuses are constantly made difficult to obtain—the company simply refuses to give you the money.

11. You have to clean the office yourself every Friday: The office must be cleaned every week; that is what a good employee who loves the company does. In the past, employees even had to clean the toilets themselves. That is no longer required, but recently, when the person responsible for cleaning the toilets was absent, no replacement was hired, so employees had to do it themselves.

12. No grace period for lateness: Being one minute late counts as tardiness, but taking leave involves an extremely cumbersome process. The company can nitpick with you, but you are not allowed to nitpick with the company.

13. Leave approval is troublesome: Leave requests must also be reviewed by the president, who is the kind of person who wants to control every detail, big or small.

14. Vacancies are not filled: When a unit is short-staffed, no replacements are hired. The president considers a salary of 31,000 to be a high salary.

15. All gifts from clients must be handed over to the audit department: Anything received while doing public relations work outside the company must be handed over to the audit department, because it is considered company property. Gifts delivered to the company are also confiscated first so they can check whether they belong to the company; if they do not, they return them to you.