Workplace reviews and discussion: 星潮國際貿易股份有限公司

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1. Constantly meddles in miscellaneous matters across every department, controlling everything from trash bags and toilet paper to daily shipping supplies such as stickers and tape. Employees in sales and the warehouse are required to register when collecting logistics supplies and record the platform used and quantity in forms. The most ridiculous part is that inventory checks even require counting the number of tamper-evident bags (How are you supposed to count tens of thousands of bags?). Every trivial matter like this has to be managed. They love looking at spreadsheets, require everything to be communicated through forms, and frequently hold pointless meetings that waste everyone's time.

2. They think everyone has plenty of free time. Whenever they suddenly think of something, they expect it to be done immediately, ordering some unfortunate employee to carry it out—for example, price comparisons (you have to look it up right away). The company dislikes employees who have their own ideas or opinions. In meetings, they ask everyone for opinions; if you give one, it becomes complaining, and if you do not, they ask, “Does nobody have an opinion?” Then just do it! If it has already been decided, why the hell are you asking? They like people who are dull, foolish, and obedient.

3. They often interfere in professional matters, imagining and filling in the processes themselves. They order things to be carried out immediately, often solving only the problem at hand and leaving future problems for later. Even after being told something is impossible, they use their authority as the boss to force employees to obey, only changing course after hitting a brick wall.

4. The procurement process is seriously flawed. Despite insufficient space, they love buying in bulk just because something is cheap, then spend more money renting external storage. They sell the items cheaply through platforms—wasn't the reason they bought them in the first place that they were cheap? The logic is hard to understand... They often accomplish nothing while exhausting a whole group of people.

5. They exploit employees by increasing their workload. If you do not work overtime, they think your workload is too light; if you do work overtime, they question whether you are slacking off. During peak season, if you do not cooperate with overtime, they get angry and threaten to make you write a resignation letter.

6. They are extremely fond of watching surveillance footage. The cameras are not installed to protect the products but to monitor employees. Computer screens are monitored as well. They are highly suspicious of employees and suspect them of theft or embezzlement at the slightest sign of anything unusual.

7. Procurement is incompetent: they buy piles of inventory without holding anyone accountable, desperately send it to consignment warehouses to conceal the accounts, and never investigate what happens to slow-moving goods. They keep buying duplicate products and then complain that inventory pressure is too high.

8. They are supposedly very kind in allowing employees 10 minutes to eat breakfast, but you must work while eating—it is not a leisurely meal. Other departments may still be eating at 10:30, but targeted departments are not allowed to. It completely depends on whether the higher-ups personally like the employee. For those who are singled out, even going to the bathroom is considered wrong.

9. They lead by breaking the rules they themselves created. With one sentence—“This is an individual case; this is an exception”—they undermine their own rules. Then every day becomes an individual case, and every day has an exception.

10. Nobody deliberately makes mistakes, but once one occurs, it is immediately magnified and scrutinized. One issue often has to be explained three or more times: once to the contact person, once to the supervisor, once to the executive assistant, once to the boss... When a favored employee goes to complain, they do not verify the facts and immediately establish the employee's guilt. The people below often take the blame while the real culprit goes free. Mistakes result in fines. If they do not dare deduct it from your salary, they will tell you to take out cash and settle it directly, claiming it is to make you remember the lesson, when in reality it saves operating costs.

11. Remember to constantly ask for a raise—preferably together with crying, making a scene, and threatening to resign—or everyone else will quietly get raises and you will be the only fool left behind. But remember that after you get a raise, they will definitely add more work for you. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

12. They never want to solve problems; they solve the person who raises them.

Finally, if you are fortunate enough to see this post, congratulations: if you stay for about a year, you will probably experience everything. The average tenure here is around a year or slightly more. If you are someone with no opinions or initiative who obeys, you may survive comfortably. Otherwise, you will be miserable. The saying that employees are a company's greatest asset does not apply here!