Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣彪馬股份有限公司_PUMA Taiwan Sports Ltd.

Flexible working hours, an all-you-can-eat snack area, and one fixed volunteer activity each year

Cherish life and stay away from workplace bullying (female manager surnamed Zong in the Product Department)

Over the years, I have worked at companies with different organizational cultures and structures, but this was the first time I encountered a manager/colleague with such a twisted personality and behavior that made me feel extremely uncomfortable at every turn. I sincerely recommend that everyone think twice before joining this company—or before any major company hires someone.

This female manager, surnamed Zong, displays typical two-faced behavior, especially toward new employees. She deliberately conveys messages that department managers and colleagues in other departments are incompetent, openly expressing disdain and contempt for others and attempting to isolate new colleagues by discouraging them from interacting too much with others. Yet when she turns around, she can interact enthusiastically with everyone, presenting a superficially friendly demeanor.

During organizational changes, communicating with her was clearly affected by fear of her authority. Her attitude was extremely arrogant: everything had to be asked about humbly, while enduring responses delivered in a questioning or sarcastic manner, which made people extremely uncomfortable. When her mistakes were pointed out, she was never willing to admit them. Instead, she would become furious and highly emotionally unstable, and would even call people into a small room to reprimand them, saying that they had crossed her bottom line.

Her monitoring of my movements in the office was almost excessively strict. Even when she could clearly see that I was discussing work matters with colleagues from other departments, she would still question me in an accusatory tone, asking where I had “gone off fooling around,” and require me to report my whereabouts whenever I left my seat. Yet she herself could leave her seat whenever she pleased. She would even arrive at the company very early every day, only to leisurely spend twenty or thirty minutes buying coffee and chatting loudly with the administrator and colleagues.

When I submitted leave requests, she would deliberately make things difficult, repeatedly questioning in a skeptical tone whether my work had been completed. She would even suddenly ask me to prepare additional reports before the end of the workday—although they were never used afterward—or deliberately assign me, several times before the end of the workday, tasks that she herself needed to complete. Her communication was also always extremely vague; she would not clearly state the work requirements all at once, causing me to repeatedly go back and forth to confirm my tasks.

In addition, she would fabricate false rumors and use them to psychologically manipulate and engage in PUA-style treatment of colleagues, while denying others’ work performance. On deadline days, she would frequently take her own work—unrelated to our team’s responsibilities—and casually push it onto others, while refusing to provide any supporting information. When questions were raised, she would claim that this was to “train my abilities.” If I said that the deadline was too tight and I truly could not help, she would sarcastically remark that she had not expected my abilities to be insufficient. Even more incomprehensibly, whenever she needed my assistance with her work, the original files would have been deleted for various unexplained reasons, making them impossible to locate or provide. I, the person assisting with adjusting the data, would then have to create an entirely new file from scratch.

Over the years, I have worked at companies with different organizational cultures and structures, but this was the first time I encountered a manager/colleague with such a twisted personality and behavior that made me feel extremely uncomfortable at every turn. Her attitude was extremely arrogant; she would ignore even greetings from senior company executives. When encountering colleagues she disliked face-to-face, she would directly roll her eyes at them and make sounds expressing disgust.

Most frustrating of all was that the department manager was overly lenient. She understood the manager’s personality very well, so in front of the manager she presented herself as generous and straightforward, but when she turned around and dealt with me or other department colleagues, she showed a completely different face.

She would also frequently exploit the manager’s lack of familiarity with the department’s details, always trying to use rhetoric to push out work that she was responsible for. During rotations, when it was someone else’s turn, that person was expected to take full responsibility; when it was her turn, however, she would claim that it was not her business and tell everyone to handle it themselves.

The company is making every effort to create a friendly work environment, but it is truly concerning that someone who behaves this way continues to operate unchecked within the company.