Workplace reviews and discussion: 貿友展覽事業股份有限公司

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1. Family-owned business: Mom is the primary owner, the daughter is responsible for overseas business, and Dad does not seem to have a clearly defined role.

2. The boss only values sales, lacks marketing and operational planning, and does not know how to properly organize exhibitions.

3. The boss assigns work using other “sister” exhibitions as successful examples, but in reality wants to copy other people’s exhibition models and apply them to domestic exhibitions.

4. The boss’s personality is difficult to predict; when in a bad mood, everyone gets reprimanded.

5. Leaving work on time (for example, clocking out at 6:00 p.m.) will result in being reprimanded. Employees are told to “leave only after finishing the work,” but no overtime pay is provided.

6. Taking too many personal leave days or annual leave days results in guilt-tripping and questioning; even when tasks have been completed, employees are repeatedly told that they “must finish the work.”

7. The turnover rate is very high; over the course of several years, I saw at least 20 people leave.

8. Some people left after only three months, and their work was directly dumped on other colleagues without any consideration of whether the workload was reasonable.

9. Consultants change frequently. The current consultant delegates a large amount of work to AI, and it is unclear whether the AI-generated translations are reviewed.

10. The company tends to attract fresh graduates through outsourcing arrangements, making it easier to pressure and manipulate them and demand additional work.