HUNG'S FORTUNE_洪裕國際股份有限公司

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At the beginning, you will spend all your time cutting fabric. There are huge amounts of fabric every day, and then you do miscellaneous tasks (shipping things, organizing brand books, sorting expired fabric, etc.). It feels just like being a part-time worker, for at least a month or more. Everyone has to go through it. I can understand this to some extent in a textile company, but it is honestly quite boring (though the older employees will tell you to cherish the experience XDD~~

Sometimes you will be asked to organize the warehouse, and you often work until eight or nine o’clock, which is extremely tiring. The company’s employees are divided into several groups. Some people on the 12th floor continuously carry bags of fabric to the elevator entrance; some work in the elevator and manually throw the bags of fabric into it. Then the entire elevator is filled with plastic bags of fabric, and one person accompanies the fabric to the underground parking lot. Someone will be waiting there in a vehicle. One or two people in the parking lot have to move the fabric brought down onto a van, loading it completely full, and then drive about 200 meters to the external warehouse. Some people will also be waiting there. When the van arrives, they have to take the fabric out bag by bag, sort it by brand, and carry it inside, making countless trips back and forth. I don’t believe a new employee would dare leave before the experienced employees do. After all the fabric on the 12th floor has been moved, you still can’t leave work; you have to continue helping at the external warehouse and can only leave after everything is organized. I’m not sure how often this warehouse organization happens, but I assume it is done whenever the warehouse is full. It’s difficult to say exactly how frequent it is.

In the second month, after the honeymoon period is over, you will start working overtime. During the interview, the boss said there was overtime pay, but after joining, I discovered that no one applies for it. When I asked senior employees, they said, “If your supervisor didn’t apply for it, do you dare apply?” If you leave early, you will be asked, “Did you ask whether anyone else needed help?” During meetings, they also state it directly: “We hope everyone can help with the work of other groups more. Don’t be the only one leaving work early.” Teamwork is emphasized here, which I think is great, but there is no overtime pay or compensatory leave, while you are still expected to work two or three extra hours doing another group’s tasks. Personally, I find that difficult to accept. The boss also tacitly approves of this culture. However, if you have worked in traditional industries before and think this kind of culture is normal, then you may be quite well suited to the company. What I personally cannot accept is that what was said in the interview differs from what you actually encounter after joining.

Regarding the business work:

Which supervisor you are assigned to is very important.

There are two groups here. One has a larger workload, so it has more people, but I haven’t seen anyone resign from that group—at least not during the few months I was there.

In the other group, the supervisor is less patient. Three people have already left in three months. They teach very quickly, so I often couldn’t understand them (though I was a beginner in international trade and textiles). However, the culture here is that whoever teaches you is the person you have to ask. The higher-ups presumably think this avoids confusion, but personally, I believe that if you can’t understand the same person after they have explained something once or twice, you should be able to seek help from someone else, because another person’s method might be easier to understand, right? This company accepts recent graduates, but the supervisors give off a “What else do you expect?” kind of attitude, and become emotionally unstable when you ask questions. I can only say that if you have worked in traditional industries for many years, congratulations—you will definitely be a good fit, because traditional industries are all similarly exploitative, and older employees likewise use their seniority to throw their weight around.