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Read the community guidelinesThe company is not very large, and there are no instances of colleagues scheming against one another or forming factions. As long as someone asks for help, everyone helps each other!
Everyone has their own responsibilities, and we are all busy working and striving together. There is no difference where some people slack off while others are much busier!
Leave policies are implemented in accordance with the Labor Standards Act and the company's relevant regulations~
The company is pet-friendly, with dogs and cats, and employees can also bring their pets to work!
The work is diverse and includes all kinds of tasks, both large and small, allowing you to gain a great deal of practical experience.
If you genuinely want to learn new things and develop your skills, this is a very suitable place~
The company moves at a relatively fast pace and there are many things to do. You need to seriously work on adjusting your pace to keep up; otherwise, the sense of disappointment can be quite strong!
This is definitely not a place where you can slack off or coast!
The work is diverse, so there is a lot to learn, and you get to interact with many professionals in the industry.
The company is small, and colleagues get along well. It is also a pet-friendly company.
There are quite a few things to handle, so at the beginning you need to work hard to keep up with the company's pace.
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First, everything said in the other posts is correct; I’m here to add some details about what makes this place so remarkable.
# Yixiang Medical and Pharmaceutical Public Relations Co., Ltd. is registered under Li Jinglan’s name. She is also the company’s general manager and the center of power.
# Li Jinglan graduated in the eighth graduating class of the Department of Health and Nutrition at Taipei Medical University, then went to Columbia University in New York to pursue a master’s degree in human nutrition. She considers herself medically trained and, as of 2022, is the chairperson of the Taipei Medical University Alumni Association.
# Vice President Pan Kewei has a pharmaceutical-company background but no real authority or voice. Basically, all decisions are made by the boss. He is also responsible for chauffeuring the boss and his three dogs.
# For unclear reasons, the company also uses Yixiang Medical and Pharmaceutical Public Relations (Li Jinglan) and Jih-Her Marketing (Pan Kewei) as names under which it operates.
# The company emphasizes that everything complies with the Labor Standards Act. Therefore, when employees’ working hours at Yixiang Medical and Pharmaceutical Public Relations exceed the limits prescribed by the Act, their wages are issued through Yixiang Medical and Pharmaceutical Public Relations instead (holiday overtime and consecutive working hours exceeding 12 hours).
# The company’s 2021 revenue was approximately NT$30–40 million or more. The two core managers (W and J) earn around NT$100,000 per month, with a low base salary supplemented by payments under other designations. Bonuses are unknown. Employee salaries can be checked on the 104 job site.
# Interns are unpaid because they are here to learn.
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Characteristics
# All decisions, large or small, within the company must go through the boss. The boss has absolute power and controls everything.
# Everyone is both a project manager and a project executor. The boss also calls performance-review meetings depending on their mood. At these times, everyone is referred to as “sales,” while colleagues are then told that they are not expected to be responsible for performance—the performance burden is supposedly on the boss, who is working very hard.
# The company’s rules are unpredictable and change according to the boss’s wishes. Usually, there are fewer rules when things are busy; the opposite is true when the boss has more free time.
# The company prefers clients who have no ideas and are easy to manipulate. It complains about and criticizes clients with more ideas behind their backs because projects cannot proceed according to the boss’s wishes.
# The company favors people who are highly submissive, strong in execution, lacking in critical thinking, and lacking independent thought. Those with ideas and opinions who can operate independently are subjected to various forms of harassment and obstruction.
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Other Miracles
# The disorganized storage room was not scheduled for cleaning until word of it reached people outside the company.
# Employees do not use the company thermometer. The boss responded, “The thermometer isn’t broken; the problem is with the person using it.”
# The boss threatens employees preparing to resign by saying, “There is screen recording on every computer in the company.”
# What exactly is the meaning of putting a dog on the conference table?
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The V in VMPR is short for “vision.” The word “vision” originates from the visions in the Bible. In its etymological sense, it is an image or scene that has been seen, describing a scene that will be achieved in the future; it also refers to an aspiration, meaning the scene or blueprint a company hopes to achieve in the future.
So I have to ask: Li Jinglan, where is your vision?
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Fact-整理 section:
https://www.104.com.tw/company/1127g79c
https://tw.stock.yahoo.com/news/感恩-凝聚-傳承-北醫新任理事長李靜蘭從心行醫-075646018.html
https://www.findcompany.com.tw/異象醫藥公關有限公司
https://www.findcompany.com.tw/意想醫藥公關有限公司
https://www.findcompany.com.tw/佶合行銷有限公司
During the interview and when she doesn’t know you well yet, she will treat you very well, showing a very warm smile and telling you about her values, vision, and ideals, making you feel that working at this company is meaningful and offers opportunities for growth.
1. The company is very small, with around 10–15 people (there are 4–6 interns during the summer; they always take interns because there is simply too much work to finish).
2. A large part of the reason the work never gets finished is that the company’s administrative efficiency is extremely poor. Everything—even something as minor as sending a LINE message to a client—has to be approved by the boss before it can be sent. As you can imagine, every day there is a long line of people waiting for the boss to review all sorts of things. However, the boss sometimes comes in late (because of her daughter, her dog, meetings outside, etc.), perhaps not arriving at the office or checking LINE until the afternoon. You end up pretending to be busy all day because a project cannot move forward until the boss has reviewed it. But if you do not do anything, your supervisor will report your work situation to the boss.
3. Oh, right, there are supervisors too! The supervisors here have zero authority to delegate or make decisions. The boss has the final say on everything, so supervisors either make minor changes or ask you to make major revisions. In any case, after the boss sees it, it will be revised many more times, and you will take the blame for the mistakes. The upside is that the boss is extremely suspicious and will also suspect that your supervisor failed to give you proper instructions—which happens to be true.
4. Going back to the boss’s freestyle approach to working hours: if the boss arrives late, say at 1:00 p.m., meetings still start from the scheduled time of 8:00 a.m. So if your meeting was originally scheduled for 4:00 p.m., congratulations—you will not be able to have the meeting until after 9:00 p.m.
5. Overtime is the norm. Even if you leave at 7:00 or 8:00 p.m., you will keep being asked whether you have other things to do (damn, I’m leaving work). When I worked at this company, the usual leaving time was after 8:30 p.m., and the latest I ever left was after midnight. You ask what I was doing? Waiting for the boss to reply on LINE!!!! (Damn.)
6. Overtime must be applied for in advance, and the process is made unnecessarily difficult. Overtime that was not applied for cannot be recorded on the time clock; the HR lady will clock you out on your behalf (which violates the Labor Standards Act).
7. The breakdown on your payslip may change because of the company’s poor financial situation (?), with the base salary reduced and bonuses increased. Although the total amount remains unchanged, arbitrarily changing the salary structure to evade taxes or reduce labor and health insurance payments is truly despicable.
8. Employee turnover is extremely high; the people who leave are all smart. However, the boss continually disparages former employees in front of current staff.
9. The boss is extremely emotional. When she likes you, she will treat you unbelievably well; on the one hand it is gratifying, but on the other it feels very fake. When she dislikes you, she will openly berate you in front of the entire office and badmouth you everywhere, making you feel isolated and as though your self-respect has been trampled on. It is unbelievable that an adult who has lived this long would behave this way.
10. The boss is the chairperson of the alumni association for a department at Taipei Medical University. However, I have personally seen how she “takes care of” several junior schoolmates from the same university. I sincerely advise you: whether or not you are an alumnus of this school, do not try it lightly, and do not assume that you will be treated better because you are a junior schoolmate. The boss may change her circumstances, but her nature remains the same. Especially if you graduated from a prestigious university, there are truly many broader paths available.
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1. Colleagues get along well, but the office environment is overly quiet, and the entire atmosphere changes according to the female boss's personality.
The female boss is a very emotional person. She will humiliate employees and put you in an awkward position depending on her mood. Although she gives you many rewards when you perform well (the pay raises are also fairly reasonable), as soon as you do something that does not suit her preferences, she will do everything she can to drive you out.
2. Simply because they once worked on a project for a certain fruit brand, and that brand stole the idea, they refuse to eat that fruit.
3. She will also criticize another employee in front of the other employees. Even after the employee leaves, she will not make things easy for them during the reference check, and may even cut off that employee's future career development.
4. Some former employees have also written very long emails complaining about the female boss's conduct.
Therefore, no matter how good the supervisor is, if the boss is not good, everything becomes very difficult.