Workplace reviews and discussion: 巧偶國際有限公司

1. Vacation scheduling system—take as many days off as there are red-letter days in the month

2. The floral arrangements made by the in-house designers are beautiful

3. The overall shop space is actually fairly large (the workspace is large compared with other flower shops)

4. Overtime can be exchanged for compensatory leave; when there is nothing urgent, you can apply for compensatory leave

A family-run flower shop

1. Low salary, no year-end bonus, no bonuses for the three major holidays, and a small year-end banquet bonus

2. When accepting projects, the company rarely considers insufficient staffing or the difficulties involved in scheduling and execution

3. Although experience outside floristry is limited, employees are often required to create non-floral works (without seeking professional advice and making them blindly)

4. No petty cash or company card is provided for employees to purchase company supplies, so employees frequently have to pay out of pocket

5. The main reasons for frequent overtime are as follows:

(1) There are many urgent orders on a given day, disrupting employees’ schedules and delaying the day’s scheduled tasks

(2) The customer comes first: orders are revised until the customer is satisfied (usually with no limit on the number of revisions), and repeated changes result in long working hours

(3) Sometimes employees need to perform non-floral manual work and must figure out how to make it, resulting in long working hours

(4) Severe understaffing

(The company fails to anticipate staffing shortages and the need for additional part-time workers)

(5) The owner and upper-level managers fail to determine the priority of tasks based on the work situation. When there are many orders and events, they often require employees to handle routine environmental-cleanup duties first. They also show little consideration for employees, rarely share the workload, and most of the time question whether employees have arranged their work schedules improperly

8. Most conversations between the owner and employees consist of negative remarks. No matter how exhausted employees are from working overtime, the owner always questions whether they are slacking off

9. Employees cannot choose whether to receive overtime pay or compensatory leave. They are uniformly forced to choose compensatory leave; if the leave is not taken promptly, the company may convert it to overtime pay depending on the circumstances

10. No allowance is provided for setup and teardown work, no per diem is provided for out-of-county business trips, and instructors cannot receive a share of the teaching fees

11. The company sometimes violates the one-fix-one-rest policy by requiring employees to work more than seven consecutive days

12. To save on transportation costs during setup and teardown, the company often has employees ride together with the goods in the rear cargo bed of a truck

13. For construction work that should be outsourced to professionals or carried out with safety measures, the company sometimes has its own employees perform work at heights directly to cut costs, without providing any safety measures

14. Most floral works are completed by the in-house designers and assistants, but on the company’s social media page and other exposure pages, the owner is often staged posing with them to make them appear to be the owner’s works (although this may be a brand marketing tactic)

P.S. There are many Virgos here (purely a personal bias; you may disregard this)