Workplace reviews and discussion: 惇聚國際股份有限公司

1. The company location is great, just a five-minute walk from Zhongshan MRT Station.

2. There are plenty of good restaurants near the company—at least you won’t have to worry about what to eat for lunch for an entire year.

3. The office environment is pretty good. Although there are still some miscellaneous items around, it is at least clean and spacious, with good natural lighting.

4. Colleagues at the same level get along well, and some managers are also very nice. At least, I didn’t feel much backstabbing—though there may have been some that I was too insensitive to notice.

5. The products are beautiful. Coming to work dressed nicely every day lets you enjoy being surrounded by all kinds of products.

6. The air-conditioning is very cold—colder than the manager’s smile—so cold that it sends a chill through you.

7. When the company makes money, it dares to give year-end bonuses. The male owner is a loyal, gutsy man who dares to take risks.

1. The promotion system is extremely unclear. Some people flatter their way to easy promotions and raises, while others are made to do the work of five people alone and are still criticized for their efficiency and quality of work.

2. There is ultimately a gap between being a distributor and being a brand. The distributor wants to make money, while the brand wants to promote itself. In some ways, these two goals conflict, so decisions and actions are often hesitant and half-hearted.

3. Some managers are extremely short-sighted and focused on immediate gains. Perhaps they have little education or have never experienced a real workplace. Having started their careers at Dung Ju, they have developed extremely clueless and arrogant personalities.

4. If you have dreams and are willing to make sacrifices, I do not recommend working here. You will be exploited completely, and it will all be taken for granted.

5. If you just want to coast along for a paycheck and are good at putting on a show, you can come here—it will help you rise to success.

Conclusion:

To be honest, I think Dung Ju is a great company. So what if it is just a distributor? So what if the brand is not big enough? So what if the Taiwanese market is not large enough? You really can learn a lot here, and you can meet many excellent and impressive colleagues. Connections and broader experience have greater and more lasting significance for a person’s career than money. But people need money to live, and hard work needs to be seen and rewarded. The most basic thing when taking a job is to earn a salary and achieve growth. The company can spend NT$1 million sponsoring foreigners to plant trees, but cannot improve benefits for its own employees. I really cannot understand this approach. It says the goal is to enhance the company’s image, but the company’s customers are all in Taiwan. If you go help people in a foreign country, will Taiwanese people actually feel any connection to it? Even if the goal is to associate the company with the most fashionable environmental-protection causes, surely the Republic of China is not lacking in such opportunities either, right? I always feel that the company likes spending money on strange initiatives whose results cannot be seen, or dares to spend only a small amount while expecting enormous results. Otherwise, it spends a great deal of money and ends up with nothing—a tragic waste. And the people who are always hurt most are the company and the frontline employees whose salaries never increase. That is why turnover remains high, the problems are never resolved, and business performance cannot improve.