Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣紅顧問有限公司

......Occasionally treats everyone to a meal?

Because we have fixed temple-worship rituals every half month, there is a snack cabinet.

There is a one-and-a-half-hour lunch break; we get the day off when a Saturday makeup workday is scheduled.

Family business, family business, family business. Those who understand should know from this that you probably shouldn’t join. If you don’t, please allow me to explain in detail.

When you start working here, you’ll witness all kinds of double standards indulging the husband and son. The executive assistant can sleep in until 11:30 and then come to work, while the general manager directs all her anger at the other employees, including but not limited to questioning supervisors about why her own son hasn’t come to work yet. Other employees are expected to obediently clock in on time with immaculate attendance records, yet are still asked, “Who among you actually came to work on time?”

Number one in sarcasm and snide remarks. They want you to have ideas, but not any ideas outside the blueprint in their head; they want you to obediently get things done, but won’t tell you how; they want you to follow instructions, but the instructions constantly change, so you can never meet their standards. In the end, they’ll say, “Why haven’t you done anything?”

If you work in design and don’t want your professional expertise humiliated, please do not come here under any circumstances. They have the ability to give you a huge pile of clipping masks that makes the file explode in size, then use Illustrator to lay out a manual and end up with a 5 GB file that the printer can’t print. The design supervisor, aka the husband, will also berate you and ask you to fix his files, while they’re unwilling to pay to clean the computer’s fans, meaning your crappy little computer simply can’t handle a 5 GB file. There was even an incident where the boss complained that the printer had color discrepancies and immediately contacted the printer company that same day to replace it, when the real reason was that the boss had whimsically wanted to use a laser printer to reproduce Pantone swatch colors.

An advanced course in emotional blackmail and PUA. Staying here will only make you feel like you’re utterly incompetent and hopeless, and that you might never find another job if you leave. The boss likes hiring fresh graduates precisely because of this: if you’re doing well, she won’t praise you; if you’re struggling, she won’t teach you—she’ll only subject you to all kinds of joking, ridicule, and verbal abuse. If you really do unfortunately end up working here, take a good look at yourself, then look at the boss’s son, and you’ll realize you’re really, really not that bad.

Every so often, side quests will gank you so badly that you don’t get a lunch break at all. Add up the unpaid weekend overtime, and it almost offsets the extra half hour you supposedly gain from the longer daily lunch break. There are endless examples of promises not being kept: employees’ Labor Insurance and National Health Insurance not being enrolled on time, incorrect salary deductions for personal leave, promised raises that never materialize, responding cryptically when employees ask questions and then justifying it by humiliating them, and employees asking about their pay slips because the salary figures seem strange, only to receive the reply, “I don’t like you all being so particular.”

You’ll hear this sentence often. Treat it as this company’s slogan, got it? They don’t like you being so particular!

BTW, this company has no accountant. Your clock-in records are controlled by the beloved son, and your salary is controlled by a boss who is bad at math. The Labor Standards Act is just a joke; everything is decided by them. They change systems whenever they say so: the anniversary-based leave system was abruptly changed to a calendar-year system, even though they didn’t know how to calculate the proportional amounts. In the end, it came back to that same line: “Why do you all love calculating these little hours so much? *I really don’t like you being so particular.*” Naturally, because the boss is truly bad at math, they changed it back again.

Oh, and all the benefits mentioned in the pros section are currently being gradually reduced. For example, the boss has started deliberately scheduling events on makeup workdays, then saying, “That day was a makeup workday anyway~.” The original promise that we would get the day off on makeup workdays was made because we sometimes had to work on holidays as a matter of obligation. So what is this supposed to mean now?? Who exactly is being particular here?

Value your life and stay away from this place.

Requesting backup: run-away meme.