奧汀整合行銷傳播股份有限公司

The company’s office is fairly large and conveniently located next to Songshan Railway Station—just across the street from the station exit.

Working hours are 10:00–19:00, which helps avoid peak commuting times and lets you sleep in a little in the morning.

Relations among colleagues are quite pleasant, and the boss is also easy to communicate with and willing to listen to everyone’s opinions.

The company is one of the few in the industry willing to provide compensatory leave or overtime pay. There are frequent group dinners and birthday celebrations.

There is a salary increase every year; the amount depends on performance, so whether you are satisfied is a matter of personal opinion.

Sometimes, when employees leave, replacements are not hired quickly enough (though recruiting may also be difficult now).

Some departments are understaffed, so things can be somewhat tough when they get busy.

In addition, there were previously two bosses at the top, which made the chain of command somewhat confusing.

However, after the two bosses went their separate ways this year, the problem of confusion in the chain of command has improved.

Most colleagues are easy to get along with, with some exceptions. The commute is also fairly convenient, and that’s about it.

The company is extremely stingy and cuts corners everywhere. They say you don’t need to work on makeup Saturdays, but the hours are actually recorded as hours owed. Later, overtime and the like are deducted from those owed hours. Any hours not made up before you resign are deducted from your pay. Most importantly, typhoon days off work the same way. The company has no senior employees; being older doesn’t necessarily mean being senior. The boss doesn’t want to spend money hiring people and loves assigning work to newcomers because they’re cheaper. The company has been around for more than 20 years, yet employees are constantly replaced—so you can probably figure out why. I heard from former colleagues that the boss doesn’t want to train people because he says employees will leave sooner or later. What? With that attitude, it’s no wonder the company is like this. As the saying goes, if the beam above is crooked, the beams below will be crooked too. Also, many managers pretend to understand things they don’t, as if they think they’re really capable.

The environment is okay. When I was there, the company was already planning to move to a new address. The coworkers were easy to get along with, but there were only one or two experienced employees, so when you encountered something you didn’t understand, there was no one to ask. They also said it was better to figure things out yourself. The employee training was very good, though—kudos for that.

1. The company is jointly owned by a married couple, so if they argue or have conflicts in private, it can affect their moods at work. They often lose their temper after only a few words. The two of them also handle things very differently. The man will first point out your mistake, then teach and explain. The woman simply says that you are wrong and that there is a problem with your work, and tells you to ask questions—but when you do, she says, “How can you not know something this simple?” and tells you to research it yourself. Their standards are inconsistent, which puts the employees in an awkward position. Things like planning are inherently subjective, but as the two supervisors, they should properly mentor people and maintain consistent standards instead of blaming everything on new employees.

2. I think the salary is average to slightly below average. There is a raise after the probationary period, and overtime is paid, but they do not want you to work overtime. However, there are four newcomers alone in the planning department, and the only person with slightly more experience had just reached six months. If you wanted to ask how a proposal could be improved or what the usual format was for an Otin budget sheet, he did not have much experience and could not provide guidance. New employees had to figure everything out by looking through past examples. After finally researching and completing something, the woman—the vice president—would say, “That’s not how a budget is laid out! Where did you get that?” I answered honestly that I had researched and imitated a similar case, and she said that it was not a good project. (Wait, hadn’t all the examples been reviewed by her and deemed good enough to put in the database?) She told me to refer to something else. == In short, you have to spend a long time figuring things out on your own, and if you get it wrong, you still cannot get a clear answer by asking. Every time you ask a question, you have to be as tense as a maid or eunuch waiting on an emperor.

3. The position is advertised as executing proposals, but because they are constantly short-staffed, you also have to manage the website and handle business-related tasks. The only thing that gave me some sense of balance was that the design department provided finished background images for you to use; otherwise, people would complain that the backgrounds in your PowerPoint presentations were never attractive enough.

4. Although the two bosses have extensive experience and strong abilities, they actually do not know how to train their employees. That is why, after 20 years, there are still only 20 employees—and they are all new—which causes talented people who genuinely want to stay to become disappointed and frustrated and resign voluntarily. I believe everyone should focus on their own area of expertise. The employees they hire are all capable, but the bosses use their existing knowledge to suppress you. In fact, you may be right, while the boss has simply failed to verify or learn the facts, leaving you feeling extremely wronged.

5. Each person is responsible for about five projects, so you really do need to work overtime every day. It is absolutely not like the vice president says—that if you are capable enough, you will not need to work overtime. Sometimes a client requests copy changes at night, and you have to work overtime. You also have to write an explanation to apply for overtime pay (but you cannot blame the client). In addition, there are an absurd number of procedures—pointless processes. For example, to request a box of water, you first have to fill out a form, print it, put it in a folder, and then ask three people [for approval], and so on. It is something the boss could resolve simply by signing, but they insist on making it complicated, or on having an SOP like a large company. (I’m not saying that following procedures is bad, but there are really far too many unnecessary ones, so it left a strong impression.) Shouldn’t you first have the capability and the number of employees to support that?

There is actually much more I could complain about, but I’ll leave it for future employees to experience for themselves—it will be more interesting that way~

Colleagues are very friendly, and there is no competition among them.

1. Low salary

The salary includes prepaid overtime pay, and after deducting the prepaid overtime pay, the salary is extremely low.

During peak periods when the workload increases dramatically and overtime is necessary, supervisors often urge you to leave work on time because they do not want to pay overtime, yet still expect you to complete a huge amount of work during regular working hours. They also often use the fact that the company pays overtime as a talking point.

2. Upper management is extremely emotional

You have to gauge upper management’s mood every day at work. They often pick fights when they are in a bad mood and can scold you for anything.