宏祥紙器有限公司

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When it comes to being exhausted,

I absolutely have to come and complain about this company.

(I picked a company that looks clean and beautiful, but is actually quite good at taking advantage of its employees 😈)

It being a family business is one thing.

But whenever things get busy, the family members have terrible emotional intelligence 😤

What does the finished product look like?

The manufacturing process?

The professional terminology?

Just describe it and give me a structural diagram to look at.

But what about the subsequent casing加工? No one teaches you anything.

The boss's son gives emotional, unclear instructions. When I tried to ask a question, he yelled, "Can't you see I'm busy?"

I was still learning the inventory management software,

yet they just threw orders at me and told me to follow up on the process.

Will anyone train me? The senior employees are already too busy to finish their own work.

The office phone never stops ringing.

Or everyone is so busy that no one is at their desk.

If there is a question about an order, it can only get stuck.

You have to wait until someone is free, then quickly grab someone to ask.

Yet they still expect me to confidently place orders. If an entire batch turns out wrong, wouldn't I be the one blamed, despite being a small but capable employee?

Following up on progress can continue until "every day" at midnight, and they are still pressuring me.

And you tell me this is a responsibility-based system.

I can voluntarily help you work overtime occasionally, no problem.

But if the official quitting time is 17:00, and employees are working overtime until 20:00–21:00 on average "every day," how can this be considered normal?

(Every day, someone is specifically assigned to announce that everyone gets off work at 17:00.)

So here is my advice:

1. If business is really that good, what you need to increase is the number of salespeople, sales assistants, and factory staff,

rather than having everyone in sales, sales support, and factory operations do everything together, leaving everyone overwhelmed and unable to leave on time. Only with efficiency will subordinates have time to train new employees. Or are you clinging to control of the family business because you are afraid the resources will be taken away?

2. If you really want to save money, change the office hours and adjust each department's schedule according to its functions.

During off-peak periods, hire hourly workers to handle miscellaneous tasks.

3. Please hire more warehouse staff. Warehouse management is far too important.

4. Also~~~~~~~~~~~~~when ordering boxed lunches, don't complain. If you think a meal is unappetizing, just throw away the flyer and don't keep it. And don't tell me, "Although you don't like it, some people do, so don't throw it away." I want to tell you: If you don't eat it, so be it. People who really want to eat it will find a way to get it themselves 😑 Life finds its own way out.

Family members,

don't waste half an hour of my time every day over something so trivial.

5. Could you please stop doing things that take advantage of employees, like making lunch break start at 12:05 and end at 12:55?

Working tirelessly for the family business is your family's choice. However, I believe you also have ~more authority and receive more compensation than other people.

Or perhaps working at your own family home makes you insensitive to it, but a ten-minute break is very important to us working drones 👉👉👉👉👉 Come argue with me if you disagree.

Work and life should not be turned upside down or go against their original purpose.

But if you choose to live for work and become a workaholic, that is your choice, isn't it?

6. Please have the boss respect employees. I am not hearing-impaired—don't use sign language! Princes and princesses of the family business, please don't be so aggressive.

7. Employees and employers have a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship. A sense of responsibility is necessary, but it cannot be taken to extremes.

If you want to take it to extremes, then there must be a "price," just as there is for you: You earn more money than other people, yet you don't have to clock in; you can leave to pick up your children whenever you want, while everyone else has to work unpaid overtime. You even ask about work in the middle of the night—do you expect people to get any sleep?! We start work at 8 a.m. and spend nearly 12 hours at the company every day, working overtime! We are clearly only paid for 8:00–17:00, yet there is an attendance bonus policy, you love bothering people in the middle of the night, and then you say the boss doesn't like people being late!

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Speaking of being exhausted, I absolutely have to come and complain about this company.

(I chose a company that looks clean and beautiful, but is actually quite good at taking advantage of its employees 😈)

Never mind that it’s a family business.

Once things get busy, the family faction’s emotional intelligence is terrible 😤

What does the finished product look like?

The manufacturing process?

Professional terminology?

They just give me a structural diagram to look at as a vague description.

But what about the subsequent casing work? No one teaches you.

The boss’s son is emotional and gives unclear instructions. When I wanted to ask a question, he yelled, “Can’t you see I’m busy?”

I was still learning the inventory management software,

yet they just threw a case at me, told me to place the order, and expected me to follow up on the process.

Will anyone train me? The seniors can barely finish their own work.

The office phone never stops ringing.

Or everyone is so busy that no one is at their desk.

If there is a question about an order, it can only be put on hold.

You have to wait until someone is free, then quickly grab someone to ask.

And I’m still expected to place orders confidently. If the entire batch turns out to be wrong, wouldn’t I be the one blamed even though I’m only a small part of the operation?

Following up on progress can mean being contacted every day until the early hours of the morning.

And you tell me this is a responsibility-based system.

I don’t mind voluntarily working overtime occasionally to help you,

but if the official quitting time is 17:00 and employees are made to work overtime until 20:00–21:00 on average “every day,”

how can this be considered normal?

(Someone is assigned every day specifically to call out the 17:00 quitting time for everyone.)

Here is my advice:

1. If business is really that good, what you need to increase is the number of sales staff, sales assistants, and factory operations staff,

rather than having everyone in sales, sales support, and factory operations do everything together until everyone is overwhelmed and unable to leave on time. Only with improved efficiency will subordinates have time to train newcomers. Or are you clinging to control of the family business because you’re afraid resources will be taken away?

2. If you really want to save money, change the office hours and adjust each department’s schedule according to its work characteristics.

During off-peak periods, hire hourly workers to handle administrative tasks.

3. Please hire more warehouse staff. Warehouse management is far too important.

4. Also~~~~~~~~~~~~~when ordering lunch boxes, don’t complain. If you think a menu flyer is unappetizing, just throw it away instead of keeping it. And don’t tell me, “Although you don’t like it, some people do, so don’t throw it away.” I want to tell you: if you don’t eat it, then forget it. People who really want to eat it will find a way to get it themselves 😑 Life finds a way.

Family faction,

don’t waste half an hour of my time every day over something so trivial.

5. Could you please stop taking advantage of employees with a lunch break that starts at 12:05 and ends at 12:55?

Working tirelessly for the family business is your family’s business. But I’m sure you also have more authority—and payoffs—than other people.

Or perhaps working at your own family business makes you numb to it. But a ten-minute break is very important to us corporate wage slaves 👉👉👉👉👉 Come argue with me if you disagree.

Work and life should not be turned upside down and go against their original purpose.

But if you choose to live for work and become workaholics, that is your choice, isn’t it?

6. Boss, please respect your employees. I’m not hearing-impaired, so don’t use sign language with me! Princes and princesses of the family business, please don’t act so aggressively.

7. Employees and employers are in a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship. A sense of responsibility is necessary, but it cannot be taken to extremes.

If you want to take it to extremes, then there must be a “price,” just as there is for you: you earn more money than other people, don’t have to clock in, can leave to pick up your children whenever you want, while everyone else has to work unpaid overtime. You’re still asking about work in the middle of the night—do you expect people to get any sleep?! We start at 8 a.m., spend nearly 12 hours a day at the company including overtime, and are clearly only paid for 8:00–17:00. There’s a perfect-attendance rule, yet you love bothering people in the middle of the night, and then say the boss doesn’t like people being late!

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This company’s “Graphic Design/Layout” position is more like a “Prepress Imposition and Proofreading” role. There is very little design work—almost none—and the job title does not match the actual duties.

Job duties:

1. Processing and revising clients’ design files, producing samples, proofreading, preparing final artwork, imposition, etc.; contacting clients to discuss issues with their files, and so on.

2. Evaluating artwork, preparing final prepress files, and managing color differences in printing.

3. Contacting vendors and outsourcing printing of the print-ready files.

4. The company mainly produces paper boxes, so it has a paper-box proofing output machine. You must operate the large-format printer and paper-box cutting machine.

Company environment and benefits:

Salary and benefits: The job posting states “salary negotiable (regular monthly salary of NT$40,000 or more),” but the actual salary is below NT$30,000. Salary adjustments and benefits are up to the boss.

Not compliant with the Labor Standards Act:

1. The company uses the old system under the Labor Standards Act. It does not enroll employees in labor and health insurance on time from their first day. The company’s systems are inadequate. Employees have to clock in themselves when arriving at work (the boss says he dislikes employees being late), while leaving work is based on a duty-based system (someone regularly “helps” clock employees out at 17:00 and says there is no need to clock out). In reality, working hours are 9:00–18:00, with a one-hour lunch break. Employees usually cannot leave until 19:00, and they do sometimes have to work overtime when busy, with no fixed end time and no overtime pay.

2. It is a family business, and almost everyone in the company is part of the owner’s circle. The boss’s son is in sales. He often gives unclear instructions, is emotional, and assigns you multiple tasks at once, then supervises you while saying you have not done this or that.

3. There is a female graphic artist who has worked there for a relatively long time. She has a very servile attitude and loves to smugly say, “I’ll teach you; I want to give you a concept.” She has no design experience and does not understand design, yet loves teaching others about design. She criticizes people’s designs or working methods with a very unprofessional attitude, speaks sarcastically like a veteran employee, calls herself a teacher, and teaches only dead-end tasks unrelated to design.

3. If you want to do design work, I recommend not coming here. If you want to learn prepress imposition and final-artwork preparation, you can come, because the female graphic artist and the boss’s son love to teach (they like showing off how capable they are). However, be mentally prepared: their attitude toward newcomers is not good. They use a lot of unnecessary words and give unclear instructions, so when you feel something is urgent, you may wonder, “Could you just get to the point?” They also waste your time after work. They will belittle you and then say that their way is the correct one. They do not communicate through mutual discussion; they like to stand beside you while you work and criticize every detail. If they teach you something incorrectly, they take no responsibility. Everyone works independently, and people in the same position do not help one another. The work atmosphere is poor. They will not admit when they give incorrect instructions. Even after you confirm repeatedly, you are still blamed when something is wrong. The female graphic artist or the boss’s son will badmouth you behind your back, and then the boss will come and lecture you.

4. The work is relatively routine, and most of it is not what a graphic designer should be doing. When operating the paper-box sample-cutting machine, you may feel like an assembly-line worker. Since this is not a design company, they have very little respect for design and do not understand it. They even criticize their designer clients behind their backs, calling the designers lazy and saying they do not understand printing.

Therefore, I strongly recommend that anyone who wants to do design work not come here. They do not care about your design work. Even if the company receives a design project—which is rare—you will not have time to properly think through and create the design. No matter how experienced you are as a designer, your skills will not be put to use here.

Perfect attendance bonus of 1,000 + lunch allowance of 60 per working day (in addition to base salary)

1. The company uses the old system under the Labor Standards Act: instead of granting three days of annual leave after six months, it grants seven days after one year. Regardless of whether you have worked there for ten or twenty years, you only get seven days.

2. The interviewer does not respect interviewees. Although an interview had been scheduled, the interviewer had not reviewed the candidate’s résumé beforehand and only looked at it during the interview. When I handed over my portfolio, it was pushed aside immediately (extremely disrespectful to the interviewee), and the interviewer only flipped through it casually during the interview.

3. Whether your salary will be increased after the probationary period depends on the boss’s mood.

4. If you do not care about the benefits system or annual leave, this position is very suitable for coasting until retirement.