Workplace reviews and discussion: 健樂福生活事業股份有限公司

Compliant with the Labor Standards Act?

【Office Environment】

＊The office is in a building opposite the D.D. House on Ren’ai Road.

There is almost nowhere nearby to get food or drinks,

which is a huge inconvenience for people who want to eat out.

We often end up having to choose between convenience-store food and instant noodles.

(Occasionally we order boxed meals together, but not very often~)

＊The seating is cramped, and 20 people share one men’s restroom and one women’s restroom.

More than 80% of the employees are women,

so to all the women.....hehe

＊The purchasing volume is far too large, but the store’s warehouse is small.

The boss refuses to rent an external warehouse or make use of other spaces,

which results in massive amounts of inventory filling the meeting room,

and even occupying the corridors in the office area.

Aside from certain employees favored by the boss, who can pretend nothing is happening,

refuse to lift anything heavier than a mouse,

and do not have to help with packing, receiving, inventory checks, or goods coming in and going out,

everyone else has to help handle it all. (Those lacking physical strength, beware.)

＊Office employees take turns serving as the weekly duty person.

There is one major cleanup at the end of every month,

and the boss mysteriously disappears at that time~

Office employees clean the environment together (including the restrooms).

People who dislike cleaning may not be a good fit~

＊The pantry uses an old-fashioned electric hot-water kettle.

The inside of the kettle is a bit....disgusting.

I heard that later they added a small hot-water dispenser,

otherwise it would not be enough for so many people to use.

The microwave is also extremely old—around 10 years old.

Its power is low, so heating takes longer.

People who bring boxed lunches have to line up to use it.

I heard that it was eventually replaced with a new one after it broke.

＊There is no clocking in or out.

Some departments never work overtime at all,

but......those who know, know~hehe

【Colleagues】

＊The two companies invested in by the boss share one office.

Except for management and a small number of long-serving employees (few enough to count on one hand),

everyone else is new.

Who knows what happened before??????

Following on from that,

＊The few long-serving employees include accounting (also HR?) and IT (also general affairs?).

You have to deal with them constantly in your work.

The two of them constantly grumble about everything,

and refuse to help with anything that involves taking on extra tasks or responsibilities.

Invoices spanning two months or month-end settlements with partner vendors are directly rejected.

When the business team looks for cooperation platforms or vendors,

it first has to consider whether accounting will cooperate~

Otherwise, everything will ultimately fall through!

＊There are several colleagues who clearly lack the corresponding work capabilities,

but are nevertheless deeply favored by the boss.

They have been complained about by multiple departments,

yet they remain firmly in place~

＊One colleague sleeps, watches videos, and browses online shopping sites during work.

They often put on airs as a veteran employee and boss new hires around.

When asked to help (with work within their own responsibilities), they make a face.

During lunch breaks, they do not care whether others are resting,

and often talk loudly instead of taking a lunch break (because they already slept enough during work hours?)

【Boss】

＊Has no operational ability, thinks extremely slowly, and has a terrible memory.

Cannot handle hearing the truth.

I heard the company has been operating at a long-term loss (?)

but for some reason it can continue operating.

The boss can forget something they assigned just one day later,

and then ask, “Did I say that?”

＊Loves holding meetings.

There is a weekly meeting every Monday afternoon,

a monthly meeting at the beginning of every month,

and unexpected meetings or interviews from time to time.

The weekly meeting even requires people not to report routine matters

(there is already one every week~there really are not that many unexpected events to report).

When there really is an unexpected event or an important decision that needs to be made,

the boss often cannot decide and throws the matter back to you,

or takes a long time to think without responding.

If you work at this company, it is best to figure out how to handle most things yourself.

＊Before holding the monthly meeting, the boss does not ask whether employees have enough time to prepare their reports.

If you cannot finish them before leaving work the day before,

you send them to the boss on the day of the meeting.

The boss will tell you, “I never asked you to work overtime at the office to finish it,

but you should at least take it home to do!”

＊Likes people who show him the utmost respect and constantly express concern for him.

Some colleagues are exactly this type,

so they get along smoothly,

and can be loud and overbearing toward other colleagues~

＊After driving away the marketing staff from both companies,

the boss divided most of the work among those who stayed and new hires.

Tasks that the boss originally said he would handle

were subsequently thrown out one after another, increasing other people’s burdens,

increasing their workloads,

without any corresponding increase in pay.

＊The monthly reports are provided to the supervisor ahead of time and within the deadline.

The supervisor often reads them without replying, so I have to keep chasing them.

The supervisor does not understand what the reports actually mean,

so the contents have to be explained repeatedly.

(Even though the reports are prepared every month, the supervisor still does not understand them.)

If you fail to chase the supervisor down by the deadline and the report is not delivered to the boss on time,

the boss usually does not reprimand the supervisor,

but the person who actually prepared the report.

【Work Content】

＊Some popular products have gradually gone out of stock.

The company insists on waiting until the poorly selling products have nearly sold out before restocking.

When you propose purchasing something,

the data provided by the relevant departments is often incorrect,

so we have to verify the data one item at a time again.

In the end, the quantity ordered from overseas is still decided by the boss,

and the order will still be cut.

＊The system used by the company is the extremely outdated Kangji system.

It cannot accommodate many new business, logistics, or payment methods.

You need to discuss them with IT and accounting,

but the two are ex~~~~tremely afraid of trouble.

Therefore, before the business team contacts a new partner,

it is best to ask clearly in advance.

Do not wait until it is time to sign the cooperation agreement to discover that the accounting system cannot support it!

＊Following on from that,

because the system is outdated,

many orders, stock transfers, and so on cannot be imported,

and require a great deal of manual processing~~

It is best to check the amounts and inventory once after finishing processing every day.

(The workload increases significantly.)

Otherwise, you will ultimately drive yourself to exhaustion.

Because of the system’s limitations,

a great deal of time is spent handling this every day.

Your time gets fragmented into tiny pieces,

and is completely filled with this kind of trivial work!

＊If the business team needs to send something,

even the NT$32 postage requires filling out a reimbursement form for the boss’s approval and signature.

Be cautious when applying for stationery,

otherwise the senior veterans will give you a long lecture.

There are a great many trivial matters like this!

＊There are no performance bonuses,

but there is still performance pressure.

Performance is reviewed at every weekly meeting.

The stores have what sounds nice like referral bonuses,

but the actual amount received each month is roughly enough to buy one bottle of Yakult.

For the sake of employees’ health, you can only buy one bottle of Yakult or a tea egg.

So thoughtful~~

If you receive a large order,

the customer may need a quotation.

Only the boss can issue quotations~

At that point, the boss takes the entire performance credit,

and it becomes wholesale sales performance~!

＊Year-end bonus/benefits

Everything follows the Labor Standards Act.

The year-end bonus depends on the boss’s mood and whether they like you.

It is entirely at their discretion~