Workplace reviews and discussion: 大宮國際有限公司

1. The stated salary is the actual take-home pay; the company covers labor and health insurance.

2. Lunch is provided. (The boss’s wife cooks it herself.)

3. Work ends at 5:30 p.m. You usually start winding down shortly after 5 p.m., and most of the time there is fruit from the worship ceremony available to eat. (The company worships the Medicine Buddha every day.)

4. From time to time, there may be snacks or drinks available. (Occasionally)

1. There is no annual leave.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that even when annual leave is finally granted, taking it may still result in a deduction from your pay.

In other words, annual leave only gives you the right to request time off.

2. For quite a few job seekers, the actual job differs substantially from what was described in the interview.

3. Work SOPs and regulations are handled very casually.

They always say that they are a small company, so this or that is unavoidable. However, I believe it is not because the company is small that things are like this; rather, it is because things are like this that the company cannot grow.

4. Work distribution and scheduling are very problematic.

After the packaging department finishes sealing the film, the process should normally continue as a complete line, with the items being boxed by the same team.

However, here they often call warehouse staff out to handle the back end, without caring whether the warehouse staff still have other work to do outside. (This is especially common before Lunar New Year.)

Then,

when the packaging department needs help, they only have to call out and a warehouse worker has to go over to help. But when the warehouse needs help, it is basically unlikely that you can proactively ask the boss’s wife’s sister to come over and help.

It is not necessarily that she cannot move the goods; rather, she is accustomed to acting weak.

Occasionally, you will be busy outside, go inside to get something, and find them doing nothing—just scrolling on their phones or eating.

When everyone works in the same area and sees that help is needed, is it really so difficult for everyone to help each other?

5. The company’s shipping speed can never keep up with the speed of incoming goods, causing the warehouse to be frequently packed with products.

Because of this, it is basically difficult to consistently maintain fixed storage locations.

On top of that, the customer consignment-storage issue is serious, so most of the time you may have to use physical labor to create space.

6. Approximately 30% of the warehouse storage space is used either for items that have been left idle for a long time or for customers’ consigned goods. I have also seen consigned goods being left until they expired without being dealt with.

7. Among the employees in the same work area, one is the boss’s wife’s sister. She gives people she dislikes the silent treatment or talks about them behind their backs, like her older sister does.

The work-allocation and SOP issues mentioned above are mostly related either to the company or to her.

8. The boss seems to recruit people as if gambling; during interviews, he basically only looks at people’s physiques, and anyone with similar warehouse-management experience will do.

Some people are clearly unsuitable after being hired, or you can tell at a glance that they will not stay long.

One new employee showed little initiative from the moment they started. I proactively mentioned this to the boss, but perhaps he was simply tired of constantly recruiting people, because his final response was just to let the person try a little longer.

In the end, the person resigned after one month. They basically did not contribute much during that month, yet the company would rather pay them a month’s salary for doing nothing. I have to admit, that kind of generosity is something else.

And when the company cannot retain people, it only blames employees for saying bad things about the company to newcomers privately, supposedly causing people not to stay.

It never considers whether those “bad things” are actually truths that you simply never mention during interviews, nor whether those truths are the key reason people cannot be retained.

The interviews, work environment, and job content are all problems, but shifting the blame to others may be the quickest solution.

Conclusion: This is, without a doubt, the most absurd and speechlessly frustrating company I have ever worked for!