Workplace reviews and discussion: 橘攝國際婚紗攝影有限公司

If you understand that you need to be humble and tactful and avoid standing out, you’ll find that your colleagues are actually quite nice.

If you’re good at currying favor and flattering people, the boss will have a favorable impression of you, often invite you to meals, and even take you to enjoy various perks.

A company full of problems, from the inside out.

I’ll start with the internal issues.

This company is a family business, and all the senior managers are relatives and insiders. Inevitably, there may be numerous potential cases of wrongdoing.

Therefore, when hiring people, they hire you under the title of “part-time student worker,” but have you work a “full-time” schedule.

Regardless of how many hours you work, they may count only “eight hours” of your work.

The reason given for “no overtime pay” is that the company is training you, so you cannot apply for overtime pay from the company.

Sometimes, even when you are on leave, the company will summon you to the office under the pretext of a “meeting.”

Moreover, meetings are always scheduled after employees’ working hours and are still not counted as overtime.

Sometimes the company rents venues and sets up booths outside, then assigns people to staff the booths and attract customers.

The booths have no time clock and no so-called sign-in sheet.

This means that when we staff the booths, there is no way to record or prove the hours we worked.

Although the company claims to offer bonuses, its bonus system is unclear.

Because there are so many problems with wages and bonuses, a company like this can often recruit only inexperienced newcomers to the workforce.

It is very difficult to attract genuinely professional people in the industry.

Not to mention that the company does not value professional expertise; it even shows disrespect toward it.

As a result, many customers who come to our company for photography services complain about the company’s lack of professionalism.

The storefront is like a bar, with all kinds of liquor covering the counter.

When I asked about it, I found out that it was because the boss really likes drinking.

The storefront represents the company’s public image.

I really don’t understand why a wedding photography company would display so much alcohol in its storefront.

This also raises the question of whether the boss drinks during working hours.

Because of this, the company’s reputation has always been poor.

As a result, the company often goes to various exhibition venues to set up displays and attract customers—for example, pet expos, children’s fairs, and bridal exhibitions, traveling to venues across northern, central, and southern Taiwan.

Because the company does not value photography expertise, it has few good or ideal works to show customers, or even share with them.

Therefore, before events, the company teaches us “sales scripts” and how to attract customers.

Instead of attracting and persuading customers through professional means, we use simple and aggressive methods to pull them in.

The boss often boasts to us about how he previously used these simple and aggressive methods to convince many customers to buy.

Many of the customers who are drawn in actually do not have much financial ability.

The company also likes to use low prices to get customers to pay first, then increase the fees through various methods and ask customers to pay for additional services.

If customers refuse to pay, this puts the company in a difficult position.

It may even be unable to treat customers courteously.

Because of these practices, the company often receives negative reviews, making its reputation even worse.

The company has also gone to great lengths regarding this issue.

After every customer finishes purchasing services from us, the company uses various methods to get them to leave us a five-star review.

That is why our company’s star rating on Google Maps is not low—although there are quite a few one-star reviews as well.