渥得室內裝修有限公司

I have been working at the company for almost a year. I happened to see the online reviews of this company, and if I were considering whether to join, I would definitely hesitate, because it makes the company look like a startup run by an idiot whose perverted boss relies on his wealthy father.

This has made me even more certain of one thing: you should hear and see the facts for yourself. At present, I feel very happy working at this company. All of my colleagues (nearly 20 people) are also in very stable spirits, get along well, and are highly respected for their expertise in their respective fields.

Pros:

1. Flexible working hours, while still having certain basic standard hours. Suitable for people who are self-disciplined and responsible for their actions.

2. The company provides free lunch every Wednesday, and the boss occasionally organizes group meals and treats everyone to afternoon tea.

3. The company values every employee’s quality of life. Taking leave for personal or family reasons will not result in difficulties from the boss; in fact, the boss hopes you get sufficient rest.

4. The snack cabinet is replenished regularly, with stock purchased according to colleagues’ preferences. Oh, and yes, it is indeed filled with more honey than we can finish—but what’s wrong with honey? Everyone can use it.

5. Good working environment: clean and bright, with an outdoor smoking area (I do not smoke). The restrooms are also very clean and comfortable, with regular cleaning staff, so employees do not need to take turns cleaning the restrooms or taking out the trash.

6. High potential for personal growth. To emphasize again, the company is suitable for people who are self-disciplined and responsible, have ideas about their field of work, and are passionate and driven. Rather than simply directing you, the boss prefers you to have your own opinions and methods. After providing the general direction for discussion, the boss generally gives you full, unconditional support as long as there are no major issues.

7. Effective meetings with good communication. I think opinions may differ on the number of meetings, but I find each meeting very brief. Communication does make everyone’s ideas and ways of improving things clear, so personally, I do not find the meetings unnecessary.

8. The company’s average age is young. Everyone gets along harmoniously, and colleagues are very supportive of one another. They are willing to share their expertise so the company can thrive and grow together.

9. Every colleague receives a birthday cake and sincere birthday wishes from the entire company.

10. It is especially worth emphasizing that although the boss likes to joke, there are absolutely no issues with sexual harassment. Some of the company’s colleagues are young and attractive, but no one appears to feel uncomfortable (those who did feel uncomfortable probably would not stay).

11. The company does not encourage overtime. If working on a holiday is unavoidable, you can freely and flexibly arrange your own work; ultimately, it is a responsibility-based system.

1. Because the company entered a busy stage soon after its early startup phase, some systems, forms, and regulations still need to be developed (the company is currently implementing an ERP system and establishing standard operating procedures for each department).

2. For the time being, larger cases can still only be assigned to more experienced supervisors due to the company’s considerations, making it difficult to distribute the workload evenly. As a result, some employees may become overworked (perhaps employees with comparable abilities are also difficult to find).

Everyone has different abilities when it comes to adapting to the workplace. Personally, I do not currently see this as a major problem, because every company has its own particular issues; it depends on how you process and accept them. However, each position is essentially a unique opening, so if you cannot accept it, you leave; if you are willing to accept it, you do your work properly. Therefore, what others consider a disadvantage may not be something I regard as a fault.

1. There is no clear attendance policy; taking leave or arriving late does not result in salary deductions. However, you must attend the morning meeting on time, otherwise the surveillance cameras will become a third eye watching you.

2. Meetings are often prolonged and ineffective. If you enjoy having meetings every day as part of your work, congratulations—this job is perfect for you. The boss may not accept suggestions because they already have ideas in mind and expect the people below them to guess what they are thinking.

3. The boss has an immature mindset. Colleagues who often cause problems at work (senior executives, department heads, and managers who rarely appear at the company) can simply get away with it by coaxing and deceiving the boss.

4. The work environment is quite beautiful—a company that is all style and no substance.

1. Claims to be a startup company, yet has no rules or systems whatsoever (the goal is to become the Amazon of the building-materials industry! They have a wealthy father. Incidentally, one year they told employees they had not made any money, but the following year they bought a new car costing more than seven million [New Taiwan dollars].)

2. No bonuses for the three major holidays. There are occasional gift boxes, and occasionally the boss treats everyone to pastries. Year-end bonuses are distributed according to the boss’s mood, and you might not even receive a month’s salary (there are no performance evaluation standards whatsoever).

3. Management relies entirely on emotional management. They like to assign employees work outside their actual duties, and if you fail to guess the answer already in the boss’s mind, they will criticize you for not working hard, lacking ambition, and being incapable.

4. The topics discussed in countless ineffective meetings frequently go around in circles because employees are expected to guess the answer in the boss’s mind during the meeting.

5. Female employees are treated disrespectfully, including excessive physical contact, intense staring, and putting an arm around their shoulders.

6. The managers did not major in design-related fields, and even the only manager who appears to have a related degree frequently makes mistakes. The subordinates they manage do not recognize this supervisor’s abilities. The biggest problem is that the boss does not know how to respect professional expertise and loves criticizing points related to the interior-design profession. On what basis? Based on just over ten years of engineering experience, they think their own design work has reached a certain level (they like to give directions behind the backs of professionals). But engineering and design are separate professions, aren’t they? If so, does that mean renovation contractors can also become interior-design masters?

7. Engineering projects often begin without the protection of a contract for no apparent reason. Unprofessional project-management procedures mean that design changes and additions or deductions to the account are rarely signed off, often ultimately making it impossible to recover project payments. Management refuses to take responsibility, and erroneous decisions drain employees’ energy and lead to staff turnover.

9. There are two companies, each run separately by one of two brothers. During meetings, it is often obvious that one person dominates strongly, suggesting they grew up in an extremely indulgent environment—an adult baby? In any case, the problem ultimately cannot be resolved, and the meeting ends without conclusion.

1. There is no clear attendance policy; taking leave or arriving late does not result in salary deductions.

2. Ineffective, overtime meetings sometimes come with meals, drinks, or snacks (depending on the boss’s mood).

3. The boss has an immature mindset and lets coworkers who often mess up at work get away with it through coaxing and deception (from a worker’s perspective, this counts as an advantage...)

4. Claims to have a beautiful work environment (but never examines the reasons for the constant staff turnover).

1. Claims to be a startup company, yet has absolutely no rules or systems (How can a company operate like this?! Having a rich dad sure is nice.)

2. No bonuses for the three major holidays, and the year-end bonus is paid at the boss’s discretion (there are no payment standards whatsoever).

3. Managers manage entirely based on their emotions, like assigning employees work outside their actual duties and then criticizing them for it (a stereotypical exploitative boss, no doubt).

4. Topics discussed in ineffective meetings are always treated with only three minutes of enthusiasm (all talk and no action...)

5. Female employees are treated disrespectfully, with excessive physical contact (even worse after drinking).

6. The managers did not major in design-related fields, yet do not know how to respect professional expertise (they like to backseat-manage the professionals).

7. Engineering projects often begin before a contract has been signed. Changes to the design and additions or deductions during the process are also rarely signed off, often ultimately making it impossible to recover the project fees.

8. The managers refuse to take responsibility; their poor decisions exhaust employees and lead to staff turnover.

9. On the surface, there are two companies run separately by two brothers, but they frequently disagree during meetings and eventually storm out (sigh~ another ineffective meeting).

10. Seriously violates workplace smoking-prevention laws. The boss likes to smoke in their private office and places a mahjong table outside the office area for socializing, disturbing the peace of nearby residents.

If you’re good enough at appeasing the boss and were born the right gender, you won’t have to spend your own money on lunch every day.

Unlimited honey snacks.

The office is very spacious and fully equipped.

The restroom is very comfortable; you feel great when you’re taking a dump.

1. There are no payslips, and wages are paid in cash. You’ll also be asked to sign documents stating that your base salary is 24,000.

They underreport high salaries to evade taxes, and there is no proof of salary whatsoever.

2. There is no overtime pay and no compensatory leave. Bonuses are given at the boss’s whim, but being late is not allowed.

If you leave too early, you’ll even be asked: “Why has everyone been leaving right at 6 lately?”

They don’t pursue efficiency or results; instead, they want everyone to “look busy.”

When paying salaries or bonuses, they often open with “the company has high operating costs.”

They may even renege on terms that were agreed upon and written on 104.

Bonuses are often pitifully small and delayed for a long time, yet the boss thinks he is very generous, while casually spending millions on cars and renovations.

3. The company has no systems whatsoever and no regular paper records.

This leads to a pile of problems: if you ask whether unused annual leave can be exchanged for money, you’ll be told that you’re being petty. Because they’re afraid of being targeted, many employees simply pretend that annual leave does not exist.

Since there are no payslips or leave forms, employees usually keep track of their leave days in their heads. Basically, no one knows how many annual-leave days they have left; they just estimate so they don’t lose out too badly.

If you want to take leave, you can only keep pretending to be sick, because the company does not deduct pay for leave. If you don’t actually have something going on, the boss will feel resentful and keep picking on you afterward.

4. The company has no relevant performance or evaluation standards; everything depends entirely on the boss’s mood.

Today, your hard work may still be worth less than someone who makes the boss happy.

Or you may work hard but be singled out because of a rumor spread by someone favored by the boss (a modern workplace palace drama?).

Or your performance may be excellent, but the boss may end up disliking you over one small thing and then badmouthing you throughout the industry.

5. The company has several employees who have managed to do quite well, and many other employees are always cleaning up after them.

I wondered for a long time why the boss never seemed to see how incompetent they were.

Then, one time, the boss said in a meeting that company cohesion was more important than anything else. That was when I realized that being willing to agree with him is more important than ability—or that you just need to be sufficiently deferential and obedient.

6. The boss’s decisions and management are problematic. He often starts developing something, then halfway through decides to change direction, so nothing ever stays on track.

Once, because he wanted employees to arrive on time, he decided to hold a morning meeting every day. After showing up to lead it three times, he stopped attending, and the managers followed his example. Some would even walk out to buy breakfast, leaving only a few unrelated people in the meeting. In the end, everyone wasted time every morning putting on a show for the boss. (If the meeting ends too early, the boss checks the cameras and asks: “Why did it end so early?”)

7. The boss claims it is a technology company, but there isn’t a single engineer.

He hires a bunch of designers but looks down on designers from the bottom of his heart.

He thinks he has a grand vision and will stand behind designers telling them what to draw, despite never having studied design himself.

The boss is often looked down on because he is too young, but deep down he is extremely traditional and looks down on the company’s younger colleagues.

Employee turnover is extremely high. The goal the boss set for the company is an absurdly high number, but he has provided absolutely no explanation of how that number was determined.

8. The company offers various “benefits,” such as snacks and drinks in the snack cabinet, occasionally paying out of his own pocket to treat everyone, and meager bonuses.

Because of these benefits, the boss believes employees should count their blessings and willingly accept the company’s other shortcomings—or, rather, he thinks that providing these things means he does not need to improve the benefits employees actually care about.

For example: complying with basic labor laws (the company was once inspected by the labor authorities, after which employees were asked to sign some strange documents).

I once heard him say: “Even if I score 100 points, there will still be people who think it isn’t good enough!”

The company does not hold year-end banquets. Every time, they say, “Sure, which restaurant do you want to eat at? We’ll book it.” When you actually try to make a booking, they say, “It’s okay, I’ll book it,” and then nothing happens. Yet he remembers every amount of money he has spent on himself perfectly clearly.

9. After an employee submits a resignation, the boss will tamper with their computer, open their private email, ask about job searches and other private matters, and then find fault with them.

He has absolutely no trust in employees and thinks they will steal company property or ideas.

He also likes to use the surveillance cameras to watch what employees are doing.

10. The boss loves taking on projects for terrible clients and is extremely proud of it, keeping these bad clients around.

He says, “At least we get paid” (?), which makes you wonder whether there are many clients who do not pay at all.

Then he only ever remembers the parts you failed to accomplish and never cares about the problems you encountered along the way.

11. The clients served by the company are pitiful.

Some employees have little ability but are very good at flattering the boss, so problems pile up as the work progresses. Yet during internal meetings, the boss and senior management unanimously conclude that they were simply unlucky enough to encounter a bad client.

The company’s solution is for everyone to go pray at a temple to change their luck, rather than examine why the client reacted that way.

12. Oh, and the boss really likes to approach female colleagues through inappropriate physical contact.

I have seen him press directly against someone, touch women’s heads, or put his arm around their shoulders. Perhaps that is just his way of being friendly. Strangely, he never does this to men.

13. “沃得室內裝修有限公司” and “樂居空間選材” are basically owned by the same boss.

Around 20 employees left within one year after the pandemic began.

After reading this far, you may think the boss is an old-fashioned, awful old man.

Quite the opposite: he is in his thirties. When you first meet him and chat, he will make you feel that he is young and innovative (false), and the office is extremely large and beautiful (thanks to the colleagues’ hard work).

So I feel responsible for telling everyone: please protect yourself. Your abilities deserve a better place.

But if you don’t have much ability, are good at flaunting your feminine features, and happen to love honey, please do apply here ^_^

Occasionally buys drinks for employees

Honey that is eaten quickly, though not finished

There is a snack cabinet, and the snacks are quickly eaten

The colleagues are all easy to get along with

•The company has no systems in place

1. Employees are paid in cash, with no payslips.

2. There are no uniform requirements for client contracts or quotations.

3. Nothing the company verbally promises employees is honored.

4. The company has no consistent practice for managing data; files are transferred between people via USB drives.

5. Regardless of salary level, all employees are insured under the lowest salary bracket for labor and health insurance, and no receipts are provided.

6. There is no standardized vacation system or record form, and requesting annual leave is even made difficult.

7. The benefits listed on 104 differ from the actual situation, so all benefit information has now been deleted and replaced with “adjusted according to individual circumstances.”

•Bonus system

1. There may only be a company dinner after more than six months; there is no year-end party, spring banquet, or lucky draw.

2. Year-end bonuses are not paid on a prorated basis to employees who have worked for less than a year.

•Incidents that have occurred at the company

1. The boss tends to get handsy with female employees and often gets physically close to female staff. It is really disgusting.

2. The boss easily gives up on projects related to the company’s future development. He initially becomes very enthusiastic, but cannot maintain it for more than two months before giving up. In the end, the project has to be restarted and done all over again, only to be abandoned again after less than two months, then restarted several months later… an endless cycle.

3. Case bonuses are very low.

4. The boss loves gossiping about people. He likes calling employees everywhere and asking, “Don’t you think so-and-so is…,” then starts criticizing that employee. He likes to receive agreement, and gets upset with anyone who disagrees with him.

5. The boss always forgets what he has said.

6. He is emotional. When another colleague upsets the boss, he instead calls a bunch of unrelated people into the office and repeatedly scolds the colleague who angered him.

7. Customer service is very poor. When the company receives a complaint, the boss only feels that he has been unlucky and goes to temples to pray for better luck, rather than reviewing areas where the company’s internal service could be improved. He only blindly demands service process forms, even though these issues have nothing to do with the process; rather, the supervisor failed to deliver on promises made to customers, designs take far too long to provide to customers, and the company cannot figure out what customers want, while constantly blaming customers for being troublesome.

8. The boss requires the company to hold a meeting every morning, but the supervisor is almost never there. Even when the supervisor is present, Supervisor Shen will run out to buy and eat breakfast during the meeting. Mornings are almost entirely wasted talking about what I did yesterday and what I will do today.

In short, nearly 20 people left the company in less than a year, yet no adjustments or improvements were made to address the company’s internal problems. Instead, the blame was placed on people who had already resigned, while the people who truly needed to make changes remained comfortably supported by the company. It is as though every dissatisfied customer is the customer’s problem and our company is always perfect. Perhaps this is also why everyone eventually left the company.

There is plenty of honey to eat

- Policies

1. Regardless of the actual salary received, the labor and health insurance salary bracket is always set at the minimum level.

2. No salary details are provided; annual leave is not handled in accordance with the Labor Standards Act, and there are no records showing how many days of annual leave each employee is entitled to. The company shows no concern or interest whatsoever in providing employees with the systems and benefits they are legally entitled to.

3. Although 104 indicates that sick leave can be taken without salary deductions, taking too much sick leave will still draw concern; for the past two years, there has been no year-end party or spring banquet, and the company has made no statement about it.

4. The boss once said that the company did not need to follow legal regulations or formal systems. Despite not providing overtime pay, the boss frequently complained that employees left work on time and did not devote more effort to the company.

- Disrespect for employees

1. The boss has no respect whatsoever for boundaries between people of different genders, and incidents involving putting an arm around someone’s shoulders, pressing against their body, and even worse behavior occur frequently. Female colleagues are not unconcerned; they simply do not know how to respond. That does not mean they accept these disgusting behaviors.

2. Employees’ positions are changed or their workloads increased arbitrarily, in ways that do not match the work discussed during the interview, which is highly detrimental to employees’ long-term career planning. If things do not go the bosses’ way, employees will also be subjected to the bosses’ backbiting and low-class comments about their work abilities.

3. Female colleagues have been assigned work other than that of an administrative assistant, yet were repeatedly required to clean the bosses’ offices and bring them water every day. Even after the colleagues protested, this impolite and undignified behavior was not corrected.

4. During the pandemic, the boss ignored protective rules regarding mask-wearing and mocked colleagues who were concerned about infection and took strict measures to protect themselves. After work, the boss would also invite various union personnel to gather in the office, making loud noise and commotion.

- Nowhere to place the grand vision

1. The company dreams of becoming part of the tech industry but uses traditional-industry thinking to carry out everything.

2. The company is run with an engineering-oriented approach. The boss looks down considerably on interior designers, but publicly acts like close friends with famous designers, while privately saying that all interior design companies will go out of business within five years and that the future trend will no longer include the interior design industry; instead, engineering combined with information technology will dominate.

3. The company often says it wants to provide customers with the best solutions and service, but ultimately fails to meet customers’ needs. One customer once complained about poor service quality, but the boss considered the customer a difficult client who did not understand engineering.

4. The company imagines rapidly expanding its scale like Amazon and Google, yet in less than a year, 16 colleagues have successively resigned. (The headcount is approximately 20 people.) The turnover rate is unimaginably high. There is no self-reflection; instead, colleagues are blamed for inciting others. Everyone is an adult, and no one can influence others that easily. Moreover, this occurred during the pandemic, and those who insisted on leaving were deemed abnormal.

If your work has no goals, you know how to flatter people, and you are good at using company resources (you like eating snacks or drinking honey), you definitely need to board the bosses’ great aircraft carrier!