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Read the community guidelinesIf you are looking for a company where you can do nothing and collect a salary without having to think, this company would definitely be your first choice.
If you have even a little ambition, remember that as long as you win over the boss’s trusted aide, you are guaranteed a smooth ride at this company. No one will stand in the way of your promotion, because your supervisor will help pad your performance figures.
Keep these key points in mind, and this really is a company where you can live comfortably until retirement.
But there are still a few warnings to give.
The supervisors here are all fairly senior. Sometimes, when people stay in a comfortable environment for too long, they inadvertently become frogs in a well. Their so-called vision is actually just standing still, because the boss is quite reluctant to invest money.
In their eyes, whatever they think is right is right. There are no real standards at the company; double standards are standard practice among the supervisors here. They are often emotional and may even resort to personal attacks. Supervisors make empty promises and paint beautiful pictures, but when something goes wrong, they make the people below them clean up the mess.
The workday is 8 hours and 15 minutes. There is no overtime pay for the extra 15 minutes. Sales staff need to provide their own computers, and after joining, they also have to provide their own stationery and other supplies. Monthly fuel costs can be too high, so employees absorb them themselves to avoid being hassled by the boss. This is basically how employees help the company cut costs.
After saying all that, I don’t even know whether to rate this company positively or negatively, because I’m very easy to fool.
Can't think of any.
I've been away from the company for quite some time and only recently discovered that this platform lets everyone share warnings about problematic workplaces.
Working hours are from 09:00 to 18:30, with a break from 12:30 to 13:45. This system of deducting 15 minutes from working hours is very difficult to understand.
The accounting supervisor really has a bad temper. I've seen female employees yelled at and reduced to tears several times, and the language used was quite harsh.
In short, I really don't recommend this company. It can't retain new employees. Why? Go work there and you'll find out.
There really aren't any~
It's long, but definitely helpful.
If you're about to interview after reading this, please don't come.
If you unfortunately do join, please do me a favor and resign immediately after reading this!!!
Although it's been a long time since I left Xianchuang, I still feel like it was a huge waste of time.
I originally didn't want to share this here,
but to save others and accumulate some good karma, I thought I'd spend a little time telling everyone about it.
Unreasonable practices:
1. Work starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 6:30 p.m. The break is from 12:30 to 1:45. Where did those 15 minutes go?
2. When the company moved offices, the office could "only" be moved during non-working hours. If the move took place during working hours, you would be blacklisted. If the boss saw it, they would even call the supervisor in and ask, "Why is your department moving now?"
3. When activities are held on holidays, supervisors will say, "Just go take a look; you won't be there long." "You won't be there long" means you won't receive a compensatory day off!! But you still have to go!
4. When traveling a long distance for work on a holiday, you still have to wait until close to the end of the workday on Friday before you can leave!! They make you work through the entire end-of-work period!!
5. The supervisors are all long-time employees. If something isn't done properly or something goes wrong, they will only push the blame onto the people below them, and then ask you what you're going to do about it?
In the boss's eyes, the supervisors never have any problems.
6. People the boss likes can adjust the company accounts however they want. People the boss doesn't like will be questioned even when making normal shipments—are you sure there's no problem?!
7. There are no bonuses for the Mid-Autumn Festival or Dragon Boat Festival. They used to say that the company would pay mid-year bonuses whenever it made money, but I never received one during my time there—they always said the company hadn't made money!! But the shareholders receive huge dividends every time? The boss even says at the year-end banquet that shareholders receive lots of dividend rewards, while the extra year-end banquet bonus is only a tiny amount~~ Well, if the company didn't make money, how could there be dividends?
8. All stationery and laptops used by this company must be provided by the employees themselves. When the desktop computer's mouse broke, I even had to buy a replacement myself. So before you've even earned any money after joining, you have to spend a sum of money first!!
9. All the supervisors at this company say on the surface that you can bring up any problems, but in reality, saying anything is completely useless!!
10. They hold meaningless morning meetings every day.
I hope this article can help you.
Basically, everyone working there who sees this article will definitely laugh,
because everything I said is true.
If you don't believe me!! Please search Google for: Xianchuang International!!
Google shows 51 reviews and a 2.5-star rating—surely this can't be fake, right?!
No
I left several years ago. This is a company that embodies every kind of unreasonableness. Whenever someone complains to me about their company, I can always say, “It’s still much better than Xianchuang.” 🤣🤣🤣
You have to sign in when you arrive at work, so there is no evidence to report violations of labor laws. You almost always leave after 9 p.m.; leaving before 7 p.m. is considered a lack of team commitment. The funny thing is that the boss’s favorite administrative assistant doesn’t work during regular hours, then deliberately stays late to work overtime, claiming it’s because there are too many phone calls during the day. Clearly, this person has work-performance problems, yet is considered an exceptionally good employee.
The people in finance also have poor emotional control and constantly judge you by their mood, as does the boss. Returns are not the administrative assistant’s fault, yet they make things difficult in every possible way. Once, on my second day, I was scolded for not understanding the customers and not knowing how to do sales. (Hello—I had only been there for two days! And I had clearly said during my interview that I did not want to transfer into sales, but that I would do the administrative assistant’s work well.)
Also, I didn’t get a computer until my third day, yet on my fourth day, a manager said that they had asked me to prepare an important quotation and that I hadn’t done it. (Sorry, I had been there for less than a week, and you were asking why I hadn’t completed a quotation from a week earlier.)
My direct supervisor also bullied me verbally. Unfortunately, I didn’t record it; otherwise, I really would have wanted to sue them.
In short, it’s all kinds of overtime, scapegoating, and workplace, verbal, and emotional bullying. Do not join this company under any circumstances—you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.
The negative reviews are all too polite. It should be rated “extremely poor.”
None, a complete waste of time
The interviewer did not clearly explain where the interview would be held, so I had to make another trip. I also had to take a boring intelligence test. When the interviewer asked why I was applying for the job, I was stunned—aren’t you supposed to first understand why you invited the job seeker to interview? They kept emphasizing how their past experiences were this and that, and even wanted to plan your life for you. I really felt that I had only wasted money on gas and my time. It wasn’t worth going.
None
Terrible. There’s not much to say… you’ll regret it.
NO
1. Clocking in at work is done by signing in. What era are we in that we're still using signatures to clock in?
I really don't know whether this is normal attendance management for a company.
2. Labor insurance enrollment starts later than the employment start date.
3. Working hours are 9:00–18:30, but overtime pay only starts being calculated at 19:00 (this was not mentioned during the interview).
Only later did I find out that 18:30–19:00 is mealtime. If you don't go eat, that's your problem; in any case, overtime can only start being calculated at 19:00.
4. The salary agreed upon during the interview was a monthly salary, with the number of working days calculated as 30 days. However, the company's salary calculation method is to divide the monthly salary by 30 and then deduct the days you did not come to work. If the month has 31 days, you will therefore earn one day's salary less.
For example, if you start work on 5/29 and work through the end of the month, 5/31 (a weekday), sorry, but your May salary will only include two days' pay, for the 29th and 30th.......
HR = the head of the Finance Department?? This method of calculation really leaves me speechless.
As an aside, according to the company, February has 28 days. If you also report to work at the end of the month, does that mean the company will pay workers for two extra days? XD
Dream on—the company always considers its own interests first!
Fortunately, I have also resigned~~ I advise job applicants to choose carefully~~~
NO
1. During the interview, I asked the manager about the company’s overtime culture.
A certain manager said: “I hate employees working overtime. If I see an employee working overtime, I assume there must be something wrong with that employee’s efficiency.”
.......After joining, I had to rush to catch the last train home every day.
2. I interviewed for a sales assistant position, but was required to do sales work. If the sales performance of the products you were responsible for did not improve, you would be harshly reprimanded by the boss at the monthly meeting.
The manager would also ask whether you had visited the stores after work and on holidays...........???!!!!
3. A certain manager disliked people reading the newspapers distributed on the MRT, thinking they were lacking in nutritional value, but read the Apple Daily at their desk every day.
4. The head of the Finance Department had an extremely serious emotional problem and could berate you harshly without distinguishing right from wrong.
They shouted every day about wanting to retire, but still couldn’t find anyone to take over????
5. Having to work on the third Saturday is really a waste of time and life, ahhhh.
The manager is the one who should broaden their horizons. They represent a bunch of uncompetitive products and force everyone into misery.
6. The turnover rate is extremely high, with many positions that have been vacant for years.
7. Keep it up, okay?
Nothing
You have to do exercises before work?
At quitting time, if the boss is still there, no one dares to leave.
If you leave on time, your supervisor will think you’re not working hard enough??
One supervisor thinks that the later you stay at the company, the harder you’re working. I laughed too...
You have to attend classes on the third Saturday of every month.
No days off, no overtime pay.
In short, you’ll know once you experience it yourself.
I was like, lol.
Luckily, I left~