香邑有限公司

1. Gives expired products to employees.

2. Likes to play musical chairs; whenever an employee resigns, they start rearranging the gossip formation.

3. Due to ongoing losses, the company has started borrowing money everywhere.

4. Likes to cultivate sycophants, as long as they know how to flatter and curry favor.

5. Likes to recruit attractive female employees; if you are not good-looking, enter at your own risk.

6. Likes to fixate on trivial matters, but rarely does the right thing.

7. Likes to talk about how capable they used to be, and also likes to shift the blame onto employees.

8. Before the stroke, their brain did not work well; after the stroke, they do not use their brain.

9. Likes to hold meetings, complain all day long, and resort to emotional manipulation at the slightest opportunity.

10. Cherish your life; stay away from Xiangyi.

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What they say in the interview is completely different from what they ask you to do after you start working.

The company does not respect professionalism.

They like to lower salaries to test your limits.

In any case, if you ultimately refuse to do it, you can at most resign.

They will also deliberately pile on a lot of work that you should not be doing.

They hope you will resign voluntarily so they will not have to calculate severance pay. Dream on~

I really can’t think of any~

Even if you’re not sick, you’ll stay here until you become sick.

Run, everyone—stay away from emotional blackmail, psychological exploitation in the workplace, and low pay~ The world outside is vast and beautiful. Even if you go work as a delivery driver, at least you’ll be happier than working here~~~

Close to the MRT station. The company offers an all-you-can-eat flatbread program, with lots of delicious flatbreads.

Policies change from morning to evening, but this will be explained away as “rolling adjustments.” Rules, regulations, and bonus schemes keep changing, always in ways that benefit the company most, making it impossible to meet the targets and receive the bonuses. When the targets cannot be met, the company will even throw out, “You need to work harder~” Yet the targets are often deliberately set higher than average, while publicly telling everyone that they hope people will bravely take on challenges.

Job rotation is actually just a matter of recruiting you into the company first, then discussing with you which other position you might be better suited for, before transferring you to a terrible position.

As for raises, the boss will say that you can discuss them with him. You speak seriously, and he listens seriously—but don’t worry, you will not be given any opportunity for a raise. Instead, your work performance will be criticized.

Many products

Way too many problems, way too many meetings

Way too many rules, way too many issues

You’ll be questioned if you take leave⋯⋯

You’ll be questioned if you leave work on time⋯⋯

You’ll be questioned for taking a lunch break: How dare you take a break when performance is poor?

Your salary will basically go toward seeing doctors ^_^

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The boss does not trust the employees.

New employees will have a period during which they enjoy a newcomer halo effect!

The boss is very pleased when a newcomer raises opinions about problems within the company.

If the boss sees a newcomer clashing with the veterans, the boss will be even happier.

Because the boss does not want to be the bad guy and communicate with the veterans, they choose to bring in newcomers to discipline the old employees. But honestly... wouldn't it be better to communicate directly?

After a new employee has been there for a while, the boss gets tired of them and will abandon them. So don't think you can keep your halo forever. Every employee has actually had a halo, only to later be disliked and targeted by the boss.

How many experienced employees at the company performed so well, yet were driven away by the boss?

The company does not value talent, and there is little room for development.

You can tell from the very first interview that you need to get away quickly

The HR interviewer had only just joined the company and had no idea about the company’s situation

They want to hire you for the lowest possible salary and expect you to do an excessive amount of work

Better to starve to death than work yourself to death at this company

If you want to challenge a slavish work environment and find out the limits of your own body, this place is extremely suitable!!!

Basically, you don't need to worry about your salary; there will be issues with getting a raise.

The company seems to think that because salaries are paid on time, employees should be grateful and indebted. (But isn't that the most basic responsibility of a company?)

To be fair:

The boss has very little understanding of the products and market conditions,

so this often causes all kinds of strategies to go wrong when the company puts them into practice.

Actually, making mistakes isn't a big deal, but the boss usually won't admit them, and then they are brushed aside hastily.

People who leave and arrive on time are singled out, and their work performance is scrutinized especially closely.

While you are at work, someone is constantly monitoring your every move through the surveillance cameras.

The number of annual leave hours is calculated incorrectly.

Capable employees are overworked. The company considers this something you are duty-bound to do, which has resulted in a work atmosphere where everyone just does their own thing, focuses on finishing the work at hand, and keeps quiet.

If you don't have the ability, don't expand the company's operations. If it really isn't working, just close up shop.

Even if you work hard and stay busy all year, there will be no year-end bonus.

The company only has to say that it didn't make any money.

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- A workplace that is not suitable for normal people to work in.

- Too many meaningless meetings. They are long and have no focus.

- Former colleagues who left the company usually do very well in other jobs and fields because they have already experienced the worst possible workplace environment here.

They will constantly emotionally manipulate you, telling you that the company is about to go under and showing you a whole bunch of data. Of course, we know that it is very frightening for employees when the company is not making money, but the boss will continue buying goods—many products that are extremely expensive and have poor profit margins—and then the employees cannot sell them. In the end, the responsibility will fall on the employees.

- If you arrive and leave work on time, you will be disliked and watched.

- There is no year-end bonus because the company is losing money.

1. The boss gives employees with ideas the opportunity to try carrying out their own goals and ideas. Of course, they also need to report their progress at the appropriate times or present a more complete plan for discussion with the boss. As long as the proposal is not something completely outlandish, the boss will find a way to support it.

2. After joining the company, there is cross-departmental interaction. Through these meetings, you can gain a clearer understanding of what other departments do (the tasks each person is responsible for), get to know your office colleagues better, introduce yourself, and share your past work experience. Everyone is very friendly, which helps you get up to speed more quickly. You can treat it as chatting and taking notes during work hours, and once it is over, you can get ready to leave work.

3. When you encounter a problem or situation and need help, simply take the initiative to ask. Colleagues and supervisors are happy to provide support or solutions.

4. The boss privately checks in and learns about employees’ performance and circumstances through supervisors, and also gives colleagues encouragement when appropriate. However, because the boss pays attention quietly and checks in discreetly and privately, some colleagues may not notice. As long as you are willing to contribute to the company, regardless of your department, the boss and supervisors will actually notice, and they are also quite willing to offer good salaries.

5. Start and finish work on time (09:30–18:30). If you have family caregiving needs, you can also adjust your schedule to 09:00–18:00.

6. If there is an activity requiring employee support under special circumstances and it takes place outside working hours, compensatory time off will be provided.

7. The more experienced colleagues in the office (calling them “old hands” doesn’t sound very nice) are all very friendly and happy to share important things to pay attention to at work, greatly reducing the likelihood of making mistakes during your work.

8. The main large bonus during the year used to be only the year-end bonus; later, a summer bonus was added.

9. If you have concerns about the work environment or working conditions, you can proactively raise them with a supervisor or the boss. If you do not feel comfortable speaking up directly, there is also an anonymous mailbox where you can state your thoughts and concerns and provide feedback to the company. (If you are worried that your handwriting might be recognized, you can type and print it out on a computer.)

10. There are no specific restrictions or requirements regarding clothing. As long as it is not revealing, bizarre, or disruptive to work, employees’ attire is not particularly restricted. However, if you are visiting clients or receiving guests, you naturally cannot dress too casually.

11. During leave or holidays, there is no unspoken rule forcing employees to respond to messages. You can reply when you have time.

12. For the year-end performance review, the boss sets aside time to interview every employee, regardless of whether their position is more or less senior; everyone receives an interview (currently, counter sales staff follow a separate evaluation system). During the interview, the boss not only asks employees whether they have encountered any problems at work, but also asks for their advice on areas where the company could improve. At the time, you can learn your score and provide the boss with feedback, helping the boss better understand your thoughts or the problems you have encountered. Of course, if you have opinions about your performance (or salary), you can also discuss them directly with the boss face to face.

13. When a foreign-language call comes in, colleagues with English communication skills promptly take over and handle it.

14. The company has many perfume testers available for use. Basically, you can wear a different scent to work every day. After working here, aside from buying perfume as gifts for friends, I buy perfume for personal use much less frequently.

1. You will gain weight working here. Colleagues often recommend and share delicious snacks, and if a colleague takes annual leave to travel abroad, there will also be souvenirs (snacks and treats) after they return. There are also office “sisters” (aunties) who occasionally bring their own ingredients and prepare delicious food for everyone. The soups are especially plentiful, made with real ingredients, and served in huge pots—so much that it can be intimidating—but they are truly, truly delicious.

2. There is a wide range of products, and employee shopping is too convenient: just tell the colleague who enters the orders what items you want, and it is done. If you do not control yourself, you will keep buying.

3. The sound of tape in the packing area (sealing boxes) can sometimes be a little noisy, haha. But the noisier the packing team is, the better business is that day, so it is a minor drawback that does not really matter.

4. There are currently two offices (the Qiyan Office and the Shipai Office), and there are far too few lunch options around the Qiyan Office.

5. There are no handsome men in the office. But everyone is very friendly. The male colleagues occasionally make crude jokes, which are actually quite funny.

6. The printer usually jams when you are busiest. It is really frustrating.

1. The colleagues are generally quite easy to get along with. Basically, they don't engage in backstabbing or form factions. (Except for one department manager who likes to mess with people and play the victim, while thinking they are acting very well.

2. When problems come up at work, most colleagues are very willing to offer assistance.

Well, it seems this company doesn't have any other advantages. Its greatest strengths really are all in its colleagues. Unfortunately, the boss neither knows how to use people nor how to judge them, and likes to treat incompetent yes-men as treasures, while making excellent employees work like dogs.

1. The company provides no training. New hires basically have to rely on psychic powers and teach themselves. After about a month, the company expects new hires to be ready for immediate combat, and they also have to complete some incomprehensible cross-departmental exchange records.

2. Can you handle the heat? The company has two office locations. If you're lucky enough to be assigned to the office where the air conditioning can't be turned on, remember to bring your own fan to keep at your desk, because you'll be in an environment where you can count the number of times the air conditioning is turned on during the entire summer on one hand.

3. The company upholds a supposedly employee-friendly environment and doesn't want employees to work overtime, so it has no overtime-pay system whatsoever. However, the company is very happy for you to work overtime voluntarily, because that is considered a good sign that you take responsibility for your work. If you leave on time as normal, the boss will think you only want to coast and wait for your paycheck.

4. When it comes to the Labor Standards Act, the company has absolutely insufficient relevant knowledge and often acts according to what it thinks it understands, while repeatedly claiming to be a legitimate, law-abiding company. However, when employees raise questions, it becomes furious.

5. According to the boss, salaries are adjusted every year, but it is best to take that with a grain of salt, because some people have gone two or three consecutive years without a raise.

6. Note that this company has no fixed lunch-break period, so be careful not to let the company steal your lunch break. As long as your lunch break does not exceed one hour, you have done nothing wrong, regardless of what the company owner or managers say.

7. The company's performance reviews may appear transparent. Apart from attendance, which can be measured fairly and objectively, there is no fair standard for anything else; ratings are still based on the impressions of managers and the boss. You may even receive comments completely unrelated to your work. Over the years, only one department manager has been able to receive the best rating; the best ordinary employees can hope for is merely slightly above average.

8. If you usually feel that you don't hear much nonsense, then coming to this company could be a good choice. Going to work and receiving a salary is perfectly normal, but the boss will tell you that paying salaries on time is a great achievement. They will also casually tell employees to resign if they don't like it. Yet when you actually submit your resignation, they will say they were only joking and ask why you are so petty as to take it seriously.

9. I believe all you Asian children are familiar with emotional blackmail, right? This company will tirelessly reiterate how good the boss is to the employees and how much money and effort they have invested. They claim that everything they do is for the employees, and that employees should know how to repay their kindness. Before complaining, employees are expected to think about how good the company has been to them instead of considering whether the matter is reasonable.

10. The boss is constantly shouting that the company is losing money, but travels in business class, stays at star-rated hotels, and eats delicious meals, then takes photos to show the employees while emotionally blackmailing them to care more about how tiring the business trip is for the boss.

11. Job transfers happen very frequently. It is presented as giving you the opportunity to explore the possibilities of different departments, but bluntly speaking, it is simply because there is a staffing shortage and they think you are useful.

12. Seats are changed very frequently. Once you have changed seats for the first time, settled everything, and are ready to get into work mode, you may have to change seats again. There is no particular reason; the boss simply wants to rearrange everyone's seats. (It is possible to change seats three or four times a year.

13. The boss themselves is the system. Every word they say must be treated as an imperial edict by those below them. You cannot offer suggestions or have any complaints. If you dare complain even once, be prepared to be labeled a heretic. The company will regard you as someone who came only to cause trouble.

14. The company's decisions change from morning to night. The boss says this is to keep up with trends and adapt to circumstances, but anyone with eyes can see that the boss simply has no idea what they want to do. They only want to follow whatever others are doing successfully and profitably, while pretending to understand and thinking everything is simple.

15. The company's understanding of marketing is extremely bizarre. As long as you know how to operate an e-commerce platform, you are considered to possess professional knowledge of marketing, advertising, branding, and so on. It doesn't matter if you have never studied these things; those are apparently abilities you should have been born with. The annual marketing budget can probably be assumed to be free wherever possible—free things are the best.

16. This company loves toxic positivity and making grand promises, treating all its staff as ignorant students. It enjoys summoning people for lectures that waste employees' time, then going back on its promises afterward. Not to mention that the manager of one department will occasionally make you take the blame for certain things.

Most of the colleagues are quite nice.

As long as you know how to flatter OO and keep yourself busy for show, you can become a manager and get a raise.

1. After you are hired, your position and work location may be changed at any time, depending entirely on the boss’s mood at the moment.

2. Treats professional expertise like xx.

3. Allows incompetent managers to sow discord and smear others in the company.

4. Company policies change from one day to the next, and the bonus system is just for show.

5. Likes to placate employees with grand promises but fails to deliver afterward, habitually choosing to selectively “forget” or go back on their word. If you don’t have a sufficiently mild temperament, you definitely shouldn’t work here, or you’ll only end up furious haha.

6. When the company can’t make money, it takes aim at the employee bonus system (but the actual reason is even more childish—they simply take it out on employees they dislike).

Many employees are inexplicably treated as enemies. I hope those who are still here can escape this ordeal soon.

There are no advantages; everything is a disadvantage.

The company is located in a residential area, and the office workstations are extremely basic. You even have to ask them to replace your chair before they will do so; otherwise, you have to sit on a metal chair. There are relatives of the boss, as well as the daughter of one of the boss’s benefactors, working at the company. They can slack off without consequences, but if you do, you may be called in for questioning. The restroom has no windows or screens. You have to carry the water up to the water dispenser yourself. The accounting staff member, 小X, always has a very sour expression and an extremely poor attitude. She is unclear about the Labor Standards Act and employee leave matters, and knows nothing when asked. Even when you correct her, she will argue back. If you call the Labor Department to confirm something, you may still be told not to be so impulsive and not to ask questions. The supposed flexible hours of 9:00–9:30 a.m. for starting work and 6:00–6:30 p.m. for leaving are fake. If the company opens at 10:00 a.m. that day, you have to work until 7:00 p.m., because the boss goes by the time clock. In other words, if no one opens the company that day, you will be considered absent without leave :)))

Once the boss is done using you, they will want to ask you to leave—and may not even want to pay severance.

Also, you are not allowed to chat at work, or you will be asked: “Have you finished your work? Is there nothing else to do? What next?”

Every day, you will also be asked a bunch of questions like, “Do you know why?” Then, if you say a couple of extra words about something unrelated to work, you will be asked again, “What are you doing?”

Even when the boss’s business is doing poorly, you have to be careful not to get caught in the crossfire, so please think carefully before joining.

I hope everyone avoids this pitfall. Best of luck with your job search.