台灣紋意股份有限公司

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On March 2, I received an email from 104 inviting me to an interview. I replied that same day asking whether the proposed interview time would work, and then never heard back. I called to follow up, and the employee who answered said that HR had not yet arrived at the office and would call me back later, but again there was no follow-up. When I called again four days later, I was told that they had already found someone. What is going on? Are they so comfortable that they can just ignore people and not respond? Survivor bias

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The personnel situation is extremely outrageous—truly. I sincerely recommend it.

The interviewer was very magnanimous and did not make too much of an issue about the lateness.

The company is engaging in bait-and-switch tactics on 104. It posted an administrative position for people with disabilities, but after I submitted my résumé, they said the position had already been filled and asked whether I would like to try working in logistics instead. If they were not looking to fill an administrative position, why not take down the job posting? It was clearly intentional.

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1. The year-end bonus is calculated based on a percentage and length of service.

(The percentage is so low that you’ll think, “Wow, this is shocking—if you’re trying to brush us off, this isn’t how you do it.^^”)

2. Colleagues or supervisors are extremely unreasonable, and the supervisor is very self-important. When something happens, they blindly side with whoever seems advantageous instead of distinguishing right from wrong, and they never think from the employees’ perspective. After all, the supervisor gets paid by the company, so if you feel wronged, you have to swallow it yourself. There are many outrageous and absurd incidents.

4. The boss is extremely stingy. To save on manpower, one person has to do multiple jobs, which is completely disproportionate to the salary—in other words, a typical exploitative boss!

(They ask you to do many things, such as taking outfit photos and videos every day, but the commission is extremely low. From what I’ve heard, it’s the lowest in the industry—worse than a 1% credit card cashback rate.)

5. There are virtually no benefits to speak of, just what is required by the Labor Standards Act. The bonuses for the three traditional festivals come from a welfare fund deducted from employees’ salaries every month.

6. Overtime comes with no overtime pay, only compensatory leave. They will tell you to deduct the hours instead of converting them into overtime pay.

7. Hello~ The company’s boss seems unable to understand the saying, “When you lead people, you must win their hearts.” No wonder your employee turnover rate is so high!

8. Employees only become eligible for company trips after completing four years, but so far, even those who have reached four years have received nothing. A perfect example of making empty promises!

9. All I can say is that the company really is all show and no substance. Its system is far too different from that of Japanese companies.

10. If you want to torture yourself to death, you can give this place a try and see what it means to do the ultimate in exploitative, overworked corporate drudgery.

Can seeing artists from my parents’ generation be considered a benefit?

The company is overly closed-off internally. Employees have not improved or kept up with the changing times, and information circulates at an astonishing speed—but only when it comes to other people’s private affairs and gossip. You have to be extremely careful when speaking to anyone.

I can’t speak for other departments, but in the department I worked in, the manager has long taken charge of marketing and design. Marketing is treated like an operations and customer-service role, while design is treated like graphic production. Even more unbelievable is that this 15-year-old company completely skips the design proposal process. They draw compositions that are not even to scale. If you understand them, they tell you that you’re great, but once you produce the work, they start changing their own composition again, leaving design absolutely no room to contribute creatively. When I pointed out the lack of a process, the response was, “Wouldn’t that take too much time?” Then they said, “This is my project; I’m the only one who knows what I want.” So it’s reasonable that the company’s Facebook audience has grown with the company over 15 years and is now in the 40–50 age range, right?

The manager criticizes mainstream marketing graphics and copy as “templates,” claiming they have no brand quality whatsoever. But then why are those so-called template-based brands growing so quickly? Shouldn’t the company learn from the methods that have worked for others and apply them to create better results?）

The company uses Pinterest as an image library and requires employees to download and modify other people’s work for commercial purposes. It shows an extreme lack of respect for its own company’s reputation. I’ve heard that in the past, when a designer objected to stealing images, they were told, “If you don’t like it, leave.” This shows that this 15-year-old company has never purchased an asset library for designers to use and has no concept of intellectual property rights! If the company genuinely wants to improve employee education, please first understand the principle that “to do good work, one must first sharpen one’s tools,” and stop being so stingy!

I, Chen An-jie, made false statements on JobSight, causing reputational damage to Taiwan Wenyi Co., Ltd. and Ya-lan Chan. I hereby clarify that the aforementioned parties did not engage in the conduct described, and I sincerely apologize.

I, Chen An-jie, made false statements on JobSight, causing reputational damage to Taiwan Wenyi Co., Ltd. and Ya-lan Chan. I hereby clarify that the aforementioned parties did not engage in the conduct described, and I sincerely apologize.

I made false statements on Job Search SkyEye, causing reputational damage to Taiwan Wanyi Co., Ltd. and Ya-Lan Chan. I hereby clarify that the aforementioned parties did not engage in the conduct described, and I sincerely apologize.

I made false statements on Job Search SkyEye, causing reputational damage to Taiwan Wanyi Co., Ltd. and Ya-Lan Chan. I hereby clarify that the aforementioned parties did not engage in the conduct described, and I sincerely apologize.

No pros

Terrible company, and the people conducting the interviews are terrible too

I’m not sure what the culture is like in other departments, but all my colleagues in my department are kind and good people.

For recent graduates entering the workforce, the overall atmosphere is relatively similar to that of other companies and schools, and there is quite a lot of room to apply and develop your own expertise.

The location is fairly convenient, with many lunch options nearby.

I think the salary is reasonable for recent graduates just starting out, but if, like me, you have moved north and need to pay rent, it can be genuinely rather tight.

Sometimes deeply rooted ideas need to be integrated with the new era. For example, allocating the necessary budget to online marketing and advertising is essential! The systems also need to be updated appropriately.

Also, outdated equipment that should be phased out should really be replaced.

Everyone’s scope of work needs to be clearly delineated. Cross-disciplinary learning is great, but everyone has tasks they are originally supposed to handle, and this kind of plus should not become the norm or a responsibility.

Cutting the manpower budget will only lower the quality; assistants should be hired when needed.

Cleanliness needs improvement. Whether or not toilet paper is placed on the desk should have little to do with it—the company has far too much dust.

There are absolutely no advantages to speak of. 0 points.

They think they’re a prestigious luxury brand, but the quality of the office staff is beyond criticism.

They don’t have the products customers want, and the ugly ones are beyond words…

Those considering applying should think twice.

None. According to labor law standards, this doesn’t count as a benefit; it’s something that should be provided.

I’m Joseph from the systems department. The trade department at the company is terrible. When I handled a work matter with her in a strictly professional manner, she replied, “What the hell does it have to do with me?” Sorry, but I can’t put up with that. She is the worst coworker I’ve encountered so far, without a doubt. After that, I handled things myself whenever I could, and only went to “communicate” with her when I couldn’t handle them myself. Later, I went to the shared folder to verify things myself, and she actually wanted me to handle matters with her strictly professionally? First, send her an email asking about the incorrect information, and she’ll correct it. I’d have to be an idiot to handle things with you strictly professionally and then wait for you to curse at me and say, “What the hell does it have to do with me?” With such a failure at dealing with people, of course we don’t get along.

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Quotes from General Manager Chiu

2022/8/29

At the weekly meeting, he shared that a friend of his who works in futures had been promoted, saying that the friend had to get up at 4 every day to answer the assignments given by the boss, every day except the first day of the Lunar New Year. He said that the intensity of our work is not that high and that we should do a little more. Inner thoughts: Can the two really be compared...? Is there some misunderstanding in asking someone earning 200,000 a month and someone earning a little over 30,000 to do the same thing? Let’s not even mention how different the two industries are; let’s just focus on one question: Are you paying enough? If you pay enough, even the boss’s farts smell fragrant. If you don’t pay enough, of course people do as much work as they are paid for. When will General Manager Chiu finally realize this problem?

Taking leave is easy.

It is, in a sense, a company that is all show and no substance.

1. There are no Lunar New Year or work-start bonuses for the three major holidays.

2. The year-end bonus is calculated proportionally.

(The proportion is so low you can't imagine it ^_^)

3. Colleagues or supervisors often use emotional blackmail.

4. One person, multiple roles.

(It's taken for granted that you'll be asked to do many things, and you're also expected to be better and know how to do even more.)

5. No matter which department you're in, you need to be good at math.

6. Toilet paper cannot be placed on the desk.

7. There are many absurd things—go experience them for yourself d(^_^o)

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1. Perfect attendance is included in the base salary??

2. The base salary is even split into meal and transportation allowances??

3. There is no overtime pay for overtime work, only compensatory leave—and it only counts after 6:30 p.m.??

4. I heard that you have to work for four full years to qualify for the employee trip??

5. And there is no year-end party or spring dinner?? Nor is there any subsidy.

In short, the benefits are extremely poor.

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Holiday business

Benefits and salary are not at Japan's level

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The interviewer was incredibly arrogant—I have no idea what they were so cocky about—and kept making things difficult. I would understand being criticized for only having Japanese N2, but a woman with N1 interviewed with me and was still taunted: “Your certificate is from two years ago. Are you still capable now?” Yet they didn’t directly test her Japanese ability either. I had even prepared for a spoken Japanese interview, but it wasn’t used; they just kept making snide remarks for no apparent reason. They also repeatedly said the job was very difficult and that they were looking for exceptionally talented people (but the salary offered was only 25,000–28,000? What a joke.) Then, a few months later, I checked the earth music EC website. Seriously, the product photos for one of the dresses looked like they had been taken for trash. I even looked at the Japanese version of the earth music website: the product photos of the same dress looked like a luxury-brand item on the Japanese site, while the Taiwan version had the cheap, street-stall-trash feel. So tell me, how exceptionally talented are the people working on this EC site?

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The company is a bit self-satisfied...

The test questions in the interview should be completely unrelated to the actual work and will never be used.

The salary cap for this position was listed on 104.

My requested salary was also the cap.

But it was quite obvious that your company either couldn't afford that salary or didn't want to pay it.

You kept saying that many of your information-related projects are outsourced, which basically means you wanted to push down the salary and benefits,

but you wouldn't say so explicitly.

If that's the case, then lower the salary cap listed for the position.

You want talent but don't want to pay more.

That doesn't make sense, does it?

I originally had a fairly positive impression of the boss,

but now... you've really made me mark your company's brand with an XX

in my mind.

I think the frivolous, unserious, fake-apple “Aoli pear” who spent her whole life wanting to bring down the boss’s wife and climb the ladder has left—I'm really happy, incredibly thrilled.

If you have a baby voice and are good at math, you can definitely rise through the ranks.

Open to job applications from anyone in the early childhood education sector.

You must be patient and willing to play along. If you can’t, learn from Nai Ge: ki pupu

Work responsibilities are unclear.

Even employees who only graduated from elementary school are heavily relied upon.

The Hakka spirit: exploit employees—squeeze them so thoroughly that even orange and lemon juice wouldn’t be spared.

1. Working hours and leave comply with the Labor Standards Act.

2. Most colleagues are easy to get along with.

1. Overtime cannot be exchanged for overtime pay; it can only be counted as hours to offset working time. (An overtime-pay option is provided, but they always tell you to choose time off in lieu.)

2. You have to buy the brand’s clothing yourself to wear as a uniform. The uniform allowance is only $1,000 per month, and buying two or more pieces already exceeds that amount. They will also ask you to buy more clothes and vary your outfits. If you need replacements, it is basically impossible to get by with just one set.

3. The pay is very low. The commission percentage is, from what I have heard, currently the lowest in the industry—a figure so laughable that people would mock it. Elsewhere, it is at least 2%.

4. The pay is very low, but the demands are numerous. Store operations are complicated and involve many tasks, and employees are always expected to do more. If you do not take on extra work, it is difficult to get promoted, and you may even be considered unmotivated. (If you are paid 20,000, they will expect you to deliver work worth 30,000.)

5. There is a salary confidentiality policy, but everyone’s pay is more or less equally bad.

6. There is a huge difference in pay between large and small stores; employees at small stores are practically destined to receive only the base salary.

7. Other than complying with the Labor Standards Act, there are almost no other benefits. The bonuses for the three major holidays come from a benefits fund deducted from your salary every month.

8. Supervisors like to make grand promises and also play favorites.

9. You cannot sit while working, and there are no chairs behind the counter. Besides receiving very little pay, you may also develop irreversible varicose veins as an occupational illness.

10. Turnover is high, so you often have to clean up the mess left by previous employees.

This is a work experience review of a certain brand under the company.

Basically, to be an employee of this company, you need to master all kinds of skills and be an all-rounder. Whatever you do, and however well you do it, is considered merely expected. They can only afford to pay you peanuts, but they do not want to hire only monkeys.

I will come back and add more if I think of anything else.

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You can't sit. Apart from a one-hour break, you have to stand almost the entire time at work.

Clothes can only be folded while held against your body, and you can't look down while folding.

You must fold seven pieces of clothing within one minute.

You can schedule one weekend day off yourself; the store manager schedules the rest of your days off.

You can't decide for yourself when to take your days off.

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The pay is very low, and the company is neither open nor transparent. The company is exploitative, and there is a lot of work.

The benefits package is not any better either.

Moreover, it is very easy for large amounts of work to come in, resulting in excessive overtime (with no overtime pay).

Some supervisors speak very rudely, creating an awkward team atmosphere, yet they simply feel that they have done nothing wrong.

They think they are the best, but they do not even do the basic work well.

The personnel policies themselves also have problems.

A certain supervisor in this company's Taiwan plateau region will make everything sound good before the interview. After you join, you will gradually discover that there seem to be discrepancies, one thing after another—but this is still a minor issue.

They may say that you do not work hard and spend all your time chatting during work. At that point, you will feel baffled: you are clearly very serious about your work and your performance is also good. But this is still a minor issue.

You may not even be able to rest or eat during your break. You will have to watch helplessly as your area supervisor goes to eat first, while you continue looking after the store even though you are almost off work. Your feet and lower back will ache, your stomach will be hungry, and you will not be able to take a break first—but this is still a minor issue.

They may say that you are slacking off at work. On the day you receive eight boxes of goods, your slender body keeps carrying them up and down, dragging large boxes from one side to the other. Although you are young, you go home with pain here and pain there. Later, when you hear from someone else that the supervisor said you were slacking off, you will feel disappointed, desperate, and angry—but this is still a minor issue.

They may say that you spend your entire shift chatting. Yet you watch the supervisor chatting or repeatedly coming over to chat with you. You cannot simply ignore the supervisor at the time, but later you hear from someone else that the supervisor thought you spent the whole day fooling around. You may feel helpless and angry—but this is still a minor issue.

You may wonder: why does nobody stand up and speak fairly?

I will tell you why: because everyone still wants to survive and earn and save money in this society or at this company. Everyone is working hard to stay alive, then using “every possible means” to keep themselves going.....

You may hear the supervisor say that you chatted with the counter next door that day, even though it was extremely busy and the neighboring counter had only come over to exchange change. Meanwhile, the supervisor was chatting nearby that day. You will feel angry and unhappy. I can tell you that this really is also a minor issue.

Everyone is just out here trying to make a living. The supervisor really does not need to take things this far.

These are all minor issues, so when they accumulate, you will truly start to question your value at this company. These minor issues happen roughly once or twice a week. I am sharing this for newcomers considering applying. I do not know about the other regions, but I hope people will not apply to this region with high hopes.

Very little money