Workplace reviews and discussion: 信源企業股份有限公司

The building is beautiful, but the R&D department is not located in the building.

Lunch boxes are provided, but they taste terrible.

The company gives out photography books personally financed by the owner.

The following is mainly about the Design Department under the R&D Department.

First of all, the division of responsibilities is unclear. Supervisors like watching young people show off, so you have to pretend to participate enthusiastically in order to please your superiors. They insist on having a hierarchy but provide no employee training; the supervisor has also only been here for a few months and does not know the answer to anything.

They say you can leave work on time, but in reality they are simply forcing you to rush to finish tasks. If something is unfinished, they say you lack ability. Colleagues and supervisors all leave directly without showing any concern. Even if you work overtime on your own to finish things, you cannot claim overtime pay, and you still get mocked sarcastically.

The senior colleague is just as bad. When busy, they say the team needs to work hard together; when not busy, they disappear to chat with other departments, then dump all the work on you and say: “You need to learn how to deal with things as if I weren’t here, okay?”

They only take on the main tasks that can produce results, while dumping all the miscellaneous work on newcomers. They say you can ask questions about anything, but when you send messages asking for help or clarification, they never reply. When they need a file, however, they read messages very quickly.

They expect new hires to learn everything within three months, yet the new-hire handbook is outdated. During the evaluation, they said I had failed to meet the requirements for the third month, when in fact they had never taught me those things at all. They claimed it was because my abilities were insufficient, so they had not taught me—completely blaming the victim instead of discussing how to solve the problem.

Then, in the final month of my probationary period, something happened that left me utterly disappointed. I relayed a message from a higher-level manager to my supervisor, only to be told directly: “How could the manager possibly do that?”

After the senior manager said the same thing again, my supervisor turned around and blamed me for not having “communicated it firmly enough.” The relationship of trust between the supervisor and assistant completely collapsed.

Every month, colleagues resign. There is clearly a reason they cannot retain people. In only my second month, I was asked to train a newcomer who had just arrived. I taught them very carefully, hoping they would avoid the pitfalls I had encountered and stay so we could work hard together, but I was mocked with: “Are you and the newcomer holding hands when you go to the bathroom? Is work for making friends?” (These are the exact words that were said.)

Because the senior manager likes the newcomer, they excessively praised them as outstanding; even when they made mistakes, they praised them for working quickly. Before I left, the newcomer sincerely thanked me. Naturally, after I left, the senior colleague must have returned to their old ways, and the newcomer also resigned soon after completing one year.

In the few weeks before I resigned, the senior colleague kept forming little cliques and muttering complaints everywhere. They even stopped saying basic “good morning” greetings and goodbyes when leaving, acting as if I should simply be treated like air because I was about to leave. Everyone would sneak a glance at me and whisper among themselves. I could barely sleep at night and was almost going to see a psychiatrist, but because I left work late and was stuck in traffic, I could not even schedule time for an appointment.

What was especially awful was that when I was required to resign, they deliberately scheduled it just a few days before I completed three full months, causing my final salary settlement to be short by several thousand dollars. They even wanted to save that little bit of money.

This was the first job of my life and became a huge shadow over my job search. Depression and anxiety kept me from having the courage to interview for and look for a new job for almost half a year. Fortunately, my next workplace had a very healthy environment; otherwise, I fear I might never have been able to move on.

There are far too many shortcomings to list. Please do not go there and waste your life and time. Aside from the people-related problems, the company's location is also extremely inconvenient for transportation. Even things like how you commute to work will become subject matter for colleagues' gossip. Please think carefully about whether it is really worth it.