Workplace reviews and discussion: 禾寶醫療器材股份有限公司

1. The office environment is pretty good: bright, comfortable, clean, and the equipment is fairly new.

2. The pantry has an Italian espresso machine and Starbucks coffee beans, so you can drink as much as you like.

3. The holiday vouchers and gifts are fairly generous.

4. Most colleagues get along well, and the atmosphere is harmonious.

5. The boss and his wife are kind and clear-headed people, and they are actually quite down-to-earth.

6. Flexible start and end times, with little overtime.

7. The number of free interbank transfers for payroll accounts is fairly generous.

1. There are too many bizarre managers. There is the brainless bootlicking type, the type who needs an audience, the all-talk-and-no-action type, and the all-in-one type: an unscrupulous, unqualified, narrow-minded Chihuahua.

2. There are relatively few people in the organization who bring their brains to work. A group of the managers mentioned above can make simple things extremely complicated and still fail to solve the problem.

3. There is a great deal of paperwork, procedures, and miscellaneous work. The division of responsibilities among departments is also unclear, so the sales team has to do everything. People who like handling everything from beginning to end may want to consider joining.

4. In this company’s sales department, developing clients is treated as a sin. Other departments only make you feel like it is your fault for taking orders. After bringing in new clients, you are still criticized: Why did the client place so many orders? Why did the client order by fax? Then they give you a NT$500 development bonus. You might as well go work for a political party or as a paid campaign walker.

5. After enduring all of this, you still get criticized by your manager for complaining too much, not going out to develop clients, and lacking initiative. She always says, “Don’t just complain—write down the problems.” When I actually did, she did not read them. Then she kept repeating that the problems needed to be written down. This routine played out three times before I resigned.

6. The manager has no strategy, no sense of responsibility, and no ethics. At the slightest disagreement, she gets confrontational; whenever things do not go her way, she makes threats. She communicates this way with clients, distributors, and employees alike. The worst part is that after making threats, she cannot back down gracefully, so she ends up offending everyone. When something goes wrong, she shifts the blame and responsibility onto former employees. She probably thinks that dead people cannot talk, so I’ll say it here～ She threatened a distributor that she would take back its territory. As a result, the distributor was extremely close with the end customers, and together they boycotted the company, effectively blacklisting it. After realizing that things were going badly, she went to the distributor and pretended nothing had happened, laughing and joking, then returned to the company and reported to the boss that my negotiation skills were poor.

7. To add to the above, the manager’s favorite tactic is to provoke and threaten people, then dump the mess on subordinate employees to clean up after she has angered a client or distributor. I have to admire her ability to infuriate people—it is truly first-rate! The kind of management style you have determines the kind of people who stay; her current favorites just happen to be cut from the same cloth as her.

8. Anyone who can stay under this manager is probably someone who survived by weeding out the strong and retaining the weak. People say that the arrogant do not remain down-and-out for long, so let’s sit back and see how long they can keep doing well. Wishing them booming business～

To reiterate, I am not saying that Hebao Company is truly terrible. You get paid for what you do, and if you adjust your mindset and think about it, Hebao Company’s advantages actually make it fairly comfortable and stable. It is just that, in this department and environment, you really should pass. It is not as though I am so desperate for a job that I need to listen to two Chihuahuas bark every day and then clean up after them.