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Read the community guidelinesThe company complies with the Labor Standards Act in all respects. There is an employee trip, plus an overseas year-end banquet (they have gone to Japan for many years).
There is a flexible 40-minute start and finish time: employees who arrive early may leave early.
The office is clean.
The boss is very friendly.
When I interviewed for the position, they said the executive assistant would help the boss with both business and personal matters. For an executive assistant, that did not sound unreasonable.
In practice, the job basically involved doing whatever the boss’s wife instructed. She expected everything to be done perfectly. Her standard was for everything she assigned to be completed in full and in great detail; otherwise, she would continually send it back for revision. The key issue was that she did not clearly explain her requirements at the beginning, but kept adding questions and other information throughout the communication process.
Even when the files were already very clear, she seemed not to have read them and kept asking about points that were already covered. She expected you to clarify the situation before explaining it to her, even though all the information was already included in the materials sent back to her.
Although the position is nominally called an executive assistant, it is basically a nanny for their family, responsible for many private matters, both large and small.
People with work experience do not need to apply. You will not learn anything else, and there is no room for growth.
Those without work experience who want to toughen themselves up and build stress tolerance can use it to test their willingness to be treated like a servant.
If you want to resign, they will think it does not matter and simply hire someone else, because there will always be people who volunteer themselves for the job. I recommend asking clearly about the job responsibilities during the interview; only apply if you can accept them.
Previously, no one had shared anything about this company on this platform, so I went anyway and went through a period of hardship.
Many people had already been replaced before me. According to my colleagues, several more people joined afterward and did not stay long.