Workplace reviews and discussion: 言瑞實業有限公司

1. Learn how to use graphic design software

2. Get to know many garment-processing vendors (cutting factories, screen-printing factories, garment factories, etc.)

3. Learn to use some garment-processing machinery

A very old-fashioned small-to-medium-sized enterprise that is waiting to die.

The apparel department is dominated by one person. He is old and unable to keep up with fashion, seriously behind the times when it comes to information, and has questionable design aesthetics. You can probably get a general idea of his aesthetic sense just by looking at the official website. In any case, he does not care about spending the boss’s money, so he spends a lot of it on meaningless things.

Those so-called fashionable casual full-color T-shirts are simply materials that the supervisor finds online and casually edits in Photoshop, then heat-transfers them using the office’s basic machine. Employees are told to sew them together themselves and send them to customers. Few people order them, but whenever someone does place an order, the employees have to DIY and hand-make everything.

He is also very arrogant and loves to make grand promises. Anyone he considers to be “opinionated” displeases him. Ideally, you should be a soulless “yes-person” employee who simply does whatever he says, earning a little over 20,000 a month and letting the days pass. Don’t expect any opportunities for a raise or promotion. Even if he says nice things during the interview, don’t believe him.

One person is expected to do the work of several. You often have to provide cross-departmental assistance. There are only two female employees in the apparel department, and you have to handle every kind of odd job and move heavy objects. The warehouse is also a complete mess. Even if you organize it, the supervisor may suddenly wave his hand and order the garment factory to bring in a large pile of useless clothes that he thinks look great, leaving them there. It is very difficult to apply your professional design skills. He thinks everyone else’s designs are ugly, so this department will never improve.

Employees are highly disposable. Whenever a fashion-design position opens, many people apply—after all, there really are not many job opportunities in fashion design in Taichung, and a bunch of recent university graduates are competing for the jobs. Sigh, I really could go on forever… I advise all the younger students to look for opportunities in northern Taiwan instead.