Workplace reviews and discussion: 普羅威行銷股份有限公司

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The following content mentions company names that have appeared in the main text,

because the company frequently changes its name,

to prevent anyone from being misled

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Jingli International Co., Ltd., Sendong Co., Ltd., ProWay International Co., Ltd.…

are all the same place with the same boss.

Q: Why does one company have so many names?

A: To confuse applicants into thinking they are different companies, and to prevent negative reviews from former employees from being seen.

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Simply put, the entire company is

“using the most complicated rules to offer the stingiest pay.”

The benefits listed in the 104 system do exist, but they are distributed according to the boss’s mood.

If she likes you, you may get bonuses and company dinners.

If she doesn’t like you, she can immediately reduce them to 0, and you get nothing.

What is the definition of being liked? Whether you are good enough at flattering her.

It has nothing to do with how well you perform or how much work you do.

I once saw someone meet their performance target, only for the boss to go back on it when the bonus was distributed.

That same day, she directly revised the original bonus system, causing the person to lose a five- or even six-figure amount of pay.

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The boss is a woman, and everyone calls her “Director X.”

There is also a male boss, who is Mongolian, but Director X is basically the person in power.

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The company uses militarized management.

Every day, employees can eat only at the designated place and time.

After work, they also have to write a daily report on their work progress.

The daily report here is calculated by the hour.

For example, what you did at 10 o’clock and what you did at 11 o’clock.

You also have to clearly explain what you did, why you did it, and what you completed.

You have to spend at least 0.5–1 hour writing this every day. It is extremely time-consuming and ineffective management.

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Basically, one person here is expected to do the work of dozens of people.

You also need to work across fields.

It is not merely about adapting to different job skills; you actually have to perform cross-functional work.

HR may also have to handle the company’s asset management and bookkeeping…

A graphic designer may need to create physical packaging, social media graphics, and flat-lay photographs…

Marketing may have to handle radio, commercial video production, social media video production, and live shopping broadcasts all at once…

Besides managing physical distribution channels and liaising with online platforms, sales staff also have to handle matters related to organizing exhibitions.

Although the company has many departments and a whole bunch of managers and directors,

in reality, only a few people are actually doing the work.

You can imagine it as a company full of generals who only give orders, with no soldiers doing the work.

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In addition, Director X has very little respect for people’s professional expertise.

She often thinks that something mentioned today can be finished five minutes later.

Some of the most outrageous things I have heard are:

“Product videos are so simple—even my child can finish one in three minutes.”

“I only need the planner to spend two minutes posting on social media.”

“The livestream is only two hours. Why does it take the entire morning to handle?”

“Checking whether the prices on ten platforms are correct should only take half an hour, right?”

“Have customer service give me ten ways to improve customer relations every day.”

She completely fails to consider how mentally exhausting ideation and execution can be.

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Director X is very emotional and frequently changes orders on a whim.

One second she may say to do A, and the next she may completely reverse course.

This causes the effort employees put in to instantly become wasted work.

Also, if you make even a small mistake, she will magnify it without limit,

turning what was originally her fault into yours.

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Next are the company’s records.

All activity records and documents should have electronic files; once completed, they should be archived and categorized. This is very basic.

But this company simply puts everything on a shared drive.

There is no systematic process or standard to follow.

You often have to ask people about this and that, or slowly search through the folders one by one,

before you can find what you need.

Otherwise, you have to redo it from scratch, which is a huge waste of time.

The assets are an even bigger mess.

There are piles of company account passwords, and no one even knows who is using them.

They create access permissions for countless platforms, only to stop using them soon afterward.

All kinds of things—electronic equipment, products, contracts, and documents—are basically unmanaged.

They are simply stuffed into some space by whoever was handling them at the time, and eventually forgotten.

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Finally, there are the employees.

Although there are good people among them, everyone’s workload is very heavy,

so many people have become focused on simply doing their own work.

But more importantly, there are also malicious people in the company.

In particular, there is Assistant A, the general manager’s assistant, who really slacks off at work but rose through the ranks by clinging to Director X and snitching to her.

Assistant A secretly looks at everyone’s computer and reports their work status to Director X.

As long as someone opposes Assistant A, Assistant A immediately goes and tattles to Director X.

The next day, you can see Director X defending Assistant A in a meeting,

even when the matter is Assistant A’s fault.

Assistant A often says things that even they cannot decide for themselves, pushing troublesome matters onto others.

When in a bad mood, Assistant A loses their temper with vendors and company employees and says cruel things.

I have heard of an even more outrageous example from the past.

Assistant A once botched a project and caused the company to lose more than seven figures, but Director X simply let it go.

Assistant A most often boasts that ChatGPT and Canva can be used to create excellent proposals and designs.

Like Director X, Assistant A has absolutely no respect for professional expertise and does not engage in any self-reflection.

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This company actually has a very good foundation and a group of highly loyal customers.

These were built through the efforts of countless people.

In fact, as long as the system were improved and the company showed a little consideration for workers,

it could actually be a good company.

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Unfortunately, no matter how well the predecessors did their jobs, with a foolish ruler and treacherous ministers, it can only head toward destruction.