Workplace reviews and discussion: 八方文化事業有限公司

Leaving work on time

I. Policies and benefits

Labor insurance is usually not enrolled on your first day of employment. It depends on the company's mood and when they decide to send out the enrollment information. Not only do they enroll you late, but they also deduct a full month's worth of labor insurance premiums. If you don't check your enrollment records yourself, you may be quietly taken advantage of without even knowing it. The key point is that even after raising this with the company, they still consider it a minor issue.

II. Work-related

(1) Work responsibilities are unclear, and other people's tasks may also become your tasks. Colleagues are not good at detail-oriented work; if you are sufficiently meticulous, their work will become yours simply because the company thinks you are more careful.

(2) Work processes are made unnecessarily complicated. Something that could clearly be completed directly and only require two people must involve a third person, turning the process into a triangle where information is passed back and forth.

(3) Every meeting is spent discussing the same things. The content of a meeting may be almost the same as what was discussed a month earlier or a month later. Each meeting lasts 1–1.5 hours. If you think the company is paying you to attend meetings, then I suppose that's not so bad.

(4) The same questions and issues will be repeatedly asked of you. Even if your daily work reports provide detailed records of your work status, they will still ask you repeatedly, and sometimes even read your messages without responding properly.

(5) At first, you apply for an administrative position. Once you become familiar with the work, they will ask you to do business development, but the business commissions they offer are... (Those who are curious can come experience it for themselves.)

III. Work environment

(1) If you are not very sensitive to cleanliness and can accept an environment full of dust, lots of fruit flies, and urine frequently splashed on the toilet seat, then you may be very well suited to the environment here.

(2) The hardware and software are outdated. For example, the computer and telephone handset are very quiet—the volume is so low that you may suspect your hearing is poor. The water dispenser's filter is not replaced, yet they will tell you that it has been changed. Even after reporting that the plastic inside the water dispenser has deteriorated, causing the water to smell and taste of plastic and have a strange odor, they will still tell you, “There’s no smell,” and that the water from the dispenser is drinkable.