Workplace reviews and discussion: 國際專利中心股份有限公司

The position I applied for was administrative, and the company had only the boss and me as employees.

The working hours were punctual, and the tasks were simple—meeting the boss’s requirements was all that was needed; no professional skills were required.

Knowing how to use a HiNet mailbox would make it easier to get started.

Although I resigned after working there for only a few days, I still wanted to share what I observed:

As mentioned earlier, the boss’s requirements included not only work-related instructions but also company rules that had to be followed.

Whatever needed to be done that day, and however the boss suddenly instructed me to do it, had to be done that way—the boss was the center of everything.

Usually, a lot of time was spent in meetings explaining what needed to be done, leaving very little time to figure out how to complete it alone.

Because everything was unfamiliar to me, I had to spend time figuring things out:

1. I once asked the boss whether it was okay to send something through the HiNet mailbox that way. The boss said they did not know and told me to send it to another mailbox first for testing before sending it myself.

2. I could not find a backup file. The boss felt that I was spending too much time on it. When showing me how to look for the file, the boss used another computer; I only knew which file it was after seeing the file name.

3. When writing vouchers, the boss would teach me once how to write them, after which I had to identify the appropriate account titles myself. However, the account titles were different each time, and if I made a mistake, I had to rewrite it.

4. Whenever a case was completed, once the boss said it was finished, I had to archive it and return it directly to its designated place.

5. In addition to the work described above, there were also company rules that I only learned about on my final day:

(1) Arriving 10 minutes before work was considered too early. Even if I pressed the doorbell once, the people inside would definitely hear it, but I had to wait until the boss finished dealing with other matters before the door would be opened.

(2) The company needed help collecting mail. The first time, I was told to collect it at a fixed time; later, I was told it was not necessary. Then, when the boss was going out in the afternoon to pay bills, the boss would change the instruction again and ask me to collect the mail along the way. Everything depended on the boss.

(3) At fixed times, I had to mail letters, pay bills, and read the electricity meter.

That is everything I only learned during my employment. I hope this can help the next new employee who is about to start working there.