Workplace reviews and discussion: 讀書共和國文化有限公司

Every month there is a birthday celebration (eat and drink to your heart’s content)

The company pays for employee trips after you have worked there for a full year

Year-end bonuses are not based on your years of service; they depend on the general manager’s mood

Colleagues play mind games to compete for favor, acting one way in public and another in private (as long as you have gossip, your colleagues will sell it to your supervisor)

As long as you are favored, you can hold a high-paying, high-ranking position without doing anything

As long as you are not favored, everything you do is wrong and unnecessary

The general manager always plays the good person, but is actually extremely narrow-minded

Yet he charges all his eating, drinking, and entertainment expenses to the company, and even tells general affairs staff to handle his personal errands

Working at this company is smooth sailing if you encounter a good supervisor, but if you encounter a lousy one, the moment you make a mistake, you can expect to be pushed out to take the fall

You have to keep an extremely low profile at this company. When you encounter the general manager, you must greet him. He is very good at presenting himself, but is actually extremely stingy and exploitative

If he dislikes you, no matter how hard you try, you will never do anything right, and he will look for trouble at every turn.

Taking leave is extremely difficult; even when you request time off, you have to worry about the general manager asking all sorts of questions. Afraid that employees will work overtime, the company requires them not to clock in and makes them falsify their working hours (not to mention the ban on taking leave—if you dare request leave, you will be put on the blacklist immediately)

You accumulate a pile of annual leave but cannot take it without worry. When you work overtime, they even hope you will exchange it for annual leave instead of cash

The vice general manager’s husband is actually very lecherous, but because of his wife, he can only look and keep his thoughts to himself; when interviewing employees, he picks the ones he likes

He cannot drive himself, so he finds employees who can drive to serve as his chauffeurs.

They only keep increasing your performance targets: if you make 5 million this week, next week they will demand 7 million

It is easy to say—why not try doing it yourself? While the employees below work themselves to the bone, the general manager and his wife only know how to travel abroad and enjoy themselves

(And these expenses are still... paid by the company)

Every month, every so often, it is like the emperor turning over name plaques: if yours is selected, you have to go to a group dinner with an attitude of gratitude (but in fact, no one wants to go)

The company never innovates and does not consider how difficult it currently is to run a publishing house

The online system is unbelievably terrible. Readers post negative reviews on Google, and the company hides them, then blames subordinates for why such comments exist. Extremely hypocritical.