Workplace reviews and discussion: 香邑有限公司

1. The colleagues are generally quite easy to get along with. Basically, they don't engage in backstabbing or form factions. (Except for one department manager who likes to mess with people and play the victim, while thinking they are acting very well.

2. When problems come up at work, most colleagues are very willing to offer assistance.

Well, it seems this company doesn't have any other advantages. Its greatest strengths really are all in its colleagues. Unfortunately, the boss neither knows how to use people nor how to judge them, and likes to treat incompetent yes-men as treasures, while making excellent employees work like dogs.

1. The company provides no training. New hires basically have to rely on psychic powers and teach themselves. After about a month, the company expects new hires to be ready for immediate combat, and they also have to complete some incomprehensible cross-departmental exchange records.

2. Can you handle the heat? The company has two office locations. If you're lucky enough to be assigned to the office where the air conditioning can't be turned on, remember to bring your own fan to keep at your desk, because you'll be in an environment where you can count the number of times the air conditioning is turned on during the entire summer on one hand.

3. The company upholds a supposedly employee-friendly environment and doesn't want employees to work overtime, so it has no overtime-pay system whatsoever. However, the company is very happy for you to work overtime voluntarily, because that is considered a good sign that you take responsibility for your work. If you leave on time as normal, the boss will think you only want to coast and wait for your paycheck.

4. When it comes to the Labor Standards Act, the company has absolutely insufficient relevant knowledge and often acts according to what it thinks it understands, while repeatedly claiming to be a legitimate, law-abiding company. However, when employees raise questions, it becomes furious.

5. According to the boss, salaries are adjusted every year, but it is best to take that with a grain of salt, because some people have gone two or three consecutive years without a raise.

6. Note that this company has no fixed lunch-break period, so be careful not to let the company steal your lunch break. As long as your lunch break does not exceed one hour, you have done nothing wrong, regardless of what the company owner or managers say.

7. The company's performance reviews may appear transparent. Apart from attendance, which can be measured fairly and objectively, there is no fair standard for anything else; ratings are still based on the impressions of managers and the boss. You may even receive comments completely unrelated to your work. Over the years, only one department manager has been able to receive the best rating; the best ordinary employees can hope for is merely slightly above average.

8. If you usually feel that you don't hear much nonsense, then coming to this company could be a good choice. Going to work and receiving a salary is perfectly normal, but the boss will tell you that paying salaries on time is a great achievement. They will also casually tell employees to resign if they don't like it. Yet when you actually submit your resignation, they will say they were only joking and ask why you are so petty as to take it seriously.

9. I believe all you Asian children are familiar with emotional blackmail, right? This company will tirelessly reiterate how good the boss is to the employees and how much money and effort they have invested. They claim that everything they do is for the employees, and that employees should know how to repay their kindness. Before complaining, employees are expected to think about how good the company has been to them instead of considering whether the matter is reasonable.

10. The boss is constantly shouting that the company is losing money, but travels in business class, stays at star-rated hotels, and eats delicious meals, then takes photos to show the employees while emotionally blackmailing them to care more about how tiring the business trip is for the boss.

11. Job transfers happen very frequently. It is presented as giving you the opportunity to explore the possibilities of different departments, but bluntly speaking, it is simply because there is a staffing shortage and they think you are useful.

12. Seats are changed very frequently. Once you have changed seats for the first time, settled everything, and are ready to get into work mode, you may have to change seats again. There is no particular reason; the boss simply wants to rearrange everyone's seats. (It is possible to change seats three or four times a year.

13. The boss themselves is the system. Every word they say must be treated as an imperial edict by those below them. You cannot offer suggestions or have any complaints. If you dare complain even once, be prepared to be labeled a heretic. The company will regard you as someone who came only to cause trouble.

14. The company's decisions change from morning to night. The boss says this is to keep up with trends and adapt to circumstances, but anyone with eyes can see that the boss simply has no idea what they want to do. They only want to follow whatever others are doing successfully and profitably, while pretending to understand and thinking everything is simple.

15. The company's understanding of marketing is extremely bizarre. As long as you know how to operate an e-commerce platform, you are considered to possess professional knowledge of marketing, advertising, branding, and so on. It doesn't matter if you have never studied these things; those are apparently abilities you should have been born with. The annual marketing budget can probably be assumed to be free wherever possible—free things are the best.

16. This company loves toxic positivity and making grand promises, treating all its staff as ignorant students. It enjoys summoning people for lectures that waste employees' time, then going back on its promises afterward. Not to mention that the manager of one department will occasionally make you take the blame for certain things.