Workplace reviews and discussion: 振大纖維股份有限公司

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Overall: overtime is the norm. At least half of the employees leave work at eight, and even fewer leave at five.

The turnover rate is extremely high. During the short time I worked here, someone was handing over their duties, and someone else joined a week after I did.

I heard someone had just submitted their resignation during my final week.

This supervisor has been here for a long time and throws his weight around the company.

He absolutely loves the company.

In my first week, it became clear that there were serious problems with the supervisor.

He doesn't train people, and responds sarcastically when asked questions.

After failing to drive me away, he began going even further:

“ If I still have to check your work, then who is the assistant—you or me?” (I had only been there for a week.)

“Why don't you hurry up and look for another job?”

The next day:

“The company will only give you one more week.”

HR: “The company isn't planning to fire you, and it's only been a week. We hope you can grow together with the company.”

(Oh—so this is how they get assistants to leave on their own?)

“It's very simple, isn't it? You can read Chinese, right?”

“Can you use your brain?”

“So what? What exactly don't you understand?”

“I have my own pressures too. I suggest you hurry up and look for another job.”

He holds two supervisory positions at the same time.

It may be that he is the only person in the company holding this position.

And for the other supervisory position he volunteered to take on,

he was simultaneously training two new assistants. Whenever we had questions, he was never at his desk, so we could only call or message him on LINE.

When teaching us: “You only need to look at columns A, B, and C.”

After completing items 1 through 300, I handed them over to him for review.

“D? I told you to look at ABC, so you only looked at ABC? You need to make connections and use your brain, okay?”

Because of what had happened before, after doing it again I found that E might also need attention.

“Because of the previous experience, E is different for a similar reason. Should it be revised?”

“I told you to check ABC. What part don't you understand? E? What E? Do you have the authority to do that?”

Later, when I encountered another issue and again asked about it based on all of the above:

“You have the authority… Of course you have the authority… You can do anything; otherwise, why would the company have hired you?”

There was no colleague I could ask, because he only had one assistant.

It was truly awful.