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Read the community guidelinesApplied for a graphic design position. The explanation of the job responsibilities was clear and specific, with no ambiguity. The work also included cooking dishes on an induction cooker for photography, plating them, designing backgrounds for photo settings, and so on, in order to shoot situational photos for catalogs. It also required regular business trips to stores in various areas to design and arrange window displays.
The interviewer’s tone was somewhat self-important. My previous company was also a well-known major company in southern Taiwan, although it was in a completely different industry. From start to finish, the interviewer used a disparaging tone to judge my previous job (because I was asked to briefly describe aspects related to it). It was as if HeySong were the only truly impressive company in all of Tainan.
Short-term worker in the raw food department.
If you are willing to work overtime, you can earn a lot of money in a short time.
The work is simple and easy to learn.
The work environment is clean and bright, with air conditioning.
You must wear food-processing attire, including a hat, mask, uniform, outer garment, and rubber boots.
The smell of raw meat follows you everywhere. After the work period ended, I was unable to eat sausages for some time.
You have to stand for long periods and carry heavy loads. Although there is a ten-minute break every two hours and you can ask for assistance if something is too heavy, your entire body will still ache, your muscles will feel as if they are burning, and your joints will feel as though they are coming apart. I remember someone even had to see an orthopedist, though I do not know what happened afterward.
I do not know whether all full-time employees are like this, whether the full-time employees in the raw food department are especially difficult to get along with, or whether the people I encountered simply had poor character.
If you cooperate with overtime, the full-time employees take it for granted and may even sarcastically criticize you and scold you for being in the way. If you cannot work overtime, they will act as though you deserve to die and are too stupid to earn money even when it is available.
There are many more drawbacks. In short, I personally think that if you can endure a month as a short-term worker, you deserve a round of applause. As for becoming a full-time employee? Please let me think about it—and then think about it some more.
The salary complies with the minimum wage stipulated by the Labor Standards Act.
There is a lot of work, and it is complicated; the staff are unfriendly.
You can learn how to handle things calmly.
It is a good place for self-cultivation.
The working environment at a certain tourist attraction is extremely terrible. There is a supervisor who appears to really want to be your friend but stabs you in the back, likes to fish for information, makes sarcastic remarks, and loves pretending to be a good person. Do not be fooled.
If things do not go their way, they will team up with other colleagues to mock and ridicule you until you resign.
Interview experience for a public relations tour guide
1. The supervisor painted an overly rosy picture, leaving room to dream big. Being willing to take on challenges is a good thing, but the subjective impression felt too unrealistic.
2. Provides the basic salary in accordance with the Labor Standards Act. After "one year" as an intern, you can become a full-time tour guide through an examination, with a +2k increase!
3. Regardless of experience or years of service, everyone starts at the basic starting salary. Besides guiding tours, you also have to handle sales-floor duties, cold outreach, public relations for tour companies, marketing planning, and everything else.... It is a company where you can take on challenges and learn.