日商Taiwan Yamato International Logistics Inc._台灣雅瑪多國際物流股份有限公司

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Sharing a former colleague’s experience

This company’s external image is extremely polished. It benefits from the halo of being a “well-known Japanese company,” creating the positive illusion that it has a well-established system, good benefits, and is a “large, reputable company.”

However, once you actually join, you discover that internally it is severely lacking in rules and systems, and management is extremely chaotic. Because employee turnover is extremely high, the company ultimately cannot retain professional talent. The people who end up in managerial positions are often parachuted in from strange, completely unrelated industries, creating the absurd situation of outsiders leading insiders.

Working here will completely overturn your values. People who work seriously receive no recognition; instead, everyone simply dumps work on them until they eventually resign in dejection under inexplicable and extreme emotional exhaustion. Fresh graduates should think very carefully before joining. Workplace bullying incidents are common.

You get overtime pay for working overtime. If you don't mind the company's unreasonable practices, you can stay until retirement—the company won't lay you off.

When I first joined this company, I was supposed to work in sales, but my supervisor said that because I had no experience, I had to start as a sales assistant and would be promoted later. In the end, it was just an empty promise. I left the company this year, and the Japanese managers there are symbols of authority; nothing will be carried out without their approval. Every year, employees have to go to the warehouse to move and organize goods. On the surface, you can choose not to go, but it's better to go anyway; otherwise, your performance evaluation will....

For someone like me with no experience, this was a good stepping stone. Although there is a promotion system, it is basically just for show. A Japanese manager can directly promote whoever they like. So, if you have no experience, you can work there for two years and then move on. There are quite a lot of long-serving employees in the company who hold consultant positions. To be honest, I don't know what these people do. However, I have heard that Japanese companies have a lifetime employment system. If you don't mind the company's many unreasonable practices, you can steadily stay there until retirement, and the company won't dare lay you off.

The only advantage is that there is no mandatory overtime; even when overtime is required, overtime pay is provided, so some people find ways to earn extra money through overtime.

I worked at this company for nearly 20 years. Later, a manager was parachuted in and began making sweeping changes, step by step using the power dynamics of the workplace to deliberately make things difficult for me and target me, forcing me to do unreasonable things. This was verbal bullying from management. I eventually chose to retire and leave. Although the company has a complaint channel, it is used to cover up the facts—so-called officials protecting one another—and to prevent people from filing complaints with the labor bureau. During my many years at this company, there were quite a few instances of workplace bullying, but senior management covered them up, causing many people to leave silently. I strongly advise against joining this company. If you happen to join and are reading this, my strongest advice is to know how to protect yourself when something happens. Never believe what company managers say. If anything happens, go directly to the labor bureau to file a complaint—make sure to protect your rights.

Salary and benefits

Promotion system: managers promote you if they like you; if you offend a manager, you are sent into the cold palace.

Although I heard that the personnel system was updated after I left, it still requires going through multiple layers of evaluations by managers, so it is just a change in form, not substance.

If a manager likes you, you will have many privileges and things will be convenient and go smoothly. They often judge the person rather than the issue. If a manager does not like you, you will have a very difficult time.

While I was at the company, the sales staff in the business department once resigned collectively. This was only the tip of the iceberg regarding problems in one department.

At the end of every year, the entire company has to go support the warehouse... You can choose not to go, but if you do not, then... you know what I mean.