Workplace reviews and discussion: 智訓有限公司

The company lets you choose between group meals and boxed lunches, and both are tasty. The food is quite good. Most coworkers are part-time students or Vietnamese workers, and everyone gets along well without scheming against one another.

The company is very small, and the order volume is extremely unstable, so it cannot afford mistakes. At a typical company, losing a hundred or two hundred thousand dollars in one go might not have much impact, but here, a single mistake is devastating and can leave the company on the verge of collapse. There may be orders this month but none the next. This is the first time I have seen a company with more part-time workers than full-time employees—the entire company is essentially made up of short-term workers. During my first week there, no one was assigned to train me; I had to figure things out on my own and ask coworkers. There were no SOPs for doing things. It was obvious that the supervisor lacked experience managing people: they failed to handle things that needed managing and interfered in things they should not have. They also spent a lot of time chatting, so it is no wonder shipments were sent out incorrectly. Apart from verbally scolding people, the supervisor did not seem to know how to identify the root cause of problems. As for the prospects for development, opinions may vary.