理財周刊股份有限公司

Very close to Exit 3 of Shandao Temple MRT Station

1. The building’s elevator is extremely old, and the office is very run-down. During the interview, I kept worrying that a cockroach might suddenly scurry out.

There were surveillance cameras at the interview location.

2. Upon entering, I saw a large number of feng shui objects (a half-body-sized Guan Gong statue, wood carvings, crystal geodes, a jade pot, hanging coins, etc.—more than 10 items in total). The form completed during the interview also asked for my lunar-calendar birthday.

3. I have a finance background. Since the job description said accounting and administrative experience was preferred and that the position would also involve procurement, I stated a relatively high expected salary.

However, the interviewer did not mention the procurement duties at all. The salary offered was even below the current minimum wage, and they said it would increase by NT$3,000 only after obtaining an investment consulting license.

In the end, we wished each other well and concluded the interview.

The only advantage is the convenient location; otherwise, it has nothing going for it.

1. Old and hot office environment: Located in an old building, the interior environment is terrible. Every time I take the elevator, it feels too small and cramped, creating a strong sense of oppression. The elevator may not even have air conditioning, making it very stuffy.

2. Extremely lacking in structure: Policies are decided by the president and the audit department. The bonus system can also change constantly. At first, they say there is a bonus, but in the end they keep delaying it, using various methods to stall or cut your performance rating so that you no longer qualify for a bonus. Even submitting a formal request is useless; the audit department will only tell you that it was approved previously and does not count now.

3. So stingy they do not even provide enough toilet paper: Each month, male employees are allocated one roll of toilet paper and female employees two rolls. Use it sparingly.

4. Monitoring employees: The president uses surveillance cameras to monitor whether employees are obediently staying at their desks. They even check the cameras when you take leave. If you apply for official leave after returning from a business trip, it may be rejected on the grounds that you did not request it in advance. They do everything they can to deduct money from you. The president also likes to see people working overtime; ideally, you should not apply for compensatory leave either, because that is what makes a “high-quality” employee. Once you “quibble” with the company, the president will hold it against you.

5. Extremely chaotic division of responsibilities among departments: If this unit cannot handle its workload, it will not outsource it or ask other units for support. Instead, you may be assigned work that does not belong to your own unit. Management calls this “making the most of internal resources” and says not to make the company incur “costs.”

6. Forget about bonuses for the three traditional holidays: Do not dream of getting the company to spend money. There are only gifts for the three holidays, and even those gifts were obtained by internal employees through advertising exchanges. If you want a gift, you have to contribute your own labor.

7. An incredibly clichéd “Lizhou Song”: As soon as you join the company, training requires you to learn the president’s life philosophies and sing an extremely tacky “Lizhou Song.” If you do not sing it for the president after completing three months, you are considered an employee who lacks a sense of belonging and cannot become a regular employee. As a result, you cannot receive benefits such as a birthday gift—which are not particularly good anyway.

8. The president likes listening to flattery: Whenever the president posts some content from clickbait “content farms” in the company group, everyone has to hurry over and praise it.

9. Year-end banquet and Lunar New Year prize drawings are very unfair: They are calculated according to seniority, meaning that executive assistants who have worked there for 20 years will always win the major prizes.

10. No year-end bonus: Company policy states that if you choose to receive bonuses during the year, you will not receive a year-end bonus; you have to choose between the two. But then the bonuses are constantly made difficult to obtain—the company simply refuses to give you the money.

11. You have to clean the office yourself every Friday: The office must be cleaned every week; that is what a good employee who loves the company does. In the past, employees even had to clean the toilets themselves. That is no longer required, but recently, when the person responsible for cleaning the toilets was absent, no replacement was hired, so employees had to do it themselves.

12. No grace period for lateness: Being one minute late counts as tardiness, but taking leave involves an extremely cumbersome process. The company can nitpick with you, but you are not allowed to nitpick with the company.

13. Leave approval is troublesome: Leave requests must also be reviewed by the president, who is the kind of person who wants to control every detail, big or small.

14. Vacancies are not filled: When a unit is short-staffed, no replacements are hired. The president considers a salary of 31,000 to be a high salary.

15. All gifts from clients must be handed over to the audit department: Anything received while doing public relations work outside the company must be handed over to the audit department, because it is considered company property. Gifts delivered to the company are also confiscated first so they can check whether they belong to the company; if they do not, they return them to you.

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The office is extremely old and rundown The working environment is very poor

The work atmosphere is so stifling, it feels like the Valley of Silence

Cameras monitor employees at all times

The leave-request process is overly complicated

I can't think of anything—perhaps the only positive is that the transportation is fairly convenient.

The environment is extremely poor. On the second and sixteenth days of each lunar month, they hold worship rituals in the building corridor. Yes, not in the building lobby, but in the corridor. The incense used for the rituals is also the really cheap kind, so every month you have to be smoked like a ham. It feels like my future salary won't even be enough to pay for medical treatment.

The boss loves watching the surveillance cameras to check whether you're obediently at your desk, whether you've properly requested leave, and whether you're late (they already deduct your pay for being late, yet they still have to monitor you specifically!).

The office environment is terrible. They are unwilling to hire cleaning staff, so everyone cleans their own workstation on Friday afternoons, and the restrooms also have to be cleaned in rotation. The water dispenser is placed right outside the men's restroom—disgusting. I don't even dare drink from it. The scrubbing sponge by the sink is black; the whole thing has gone moldy, but they still refuse to replace it.

The boss really likes hearing people flatter him. When work starts, all employees have to line up and say auspicious phrases. The only difference from a costume drama is that we don't have to kneel while saying them. If your auspicious phrases don't include things like “make a great fortune,” you'll even get feedback saying that you didn't properly ask the God of Wealth for blessings—no wonder your performance is poor!!

You have to memorize the boss's “business philosophy”; during the interview to become a permanent employee, you'll be randomly quizzed on it!! There's also a “financial management song” that has to be sung on certain occasions. We're forced to suck up to an unbearably disgusting extent.

They suspect employees all day long and don't like employees bringing their own computers to use (well, the equipment you provide is terrible), believing that employees will steal company data.

All the gift boxes for Lunar New Year and other holidays are obtained through advertising exchanges. They are completely unwilling to spend any money. I heard that even gifts intended for journalists have to be confiscated. It's absolutely laughable.

Nothing commendable.

A company with a workforce 15 times larger has only one HR employee, who is incompetent and arrogant;

Interviews are scheduled entirely on the company’s terms, with no buffer of at least three days. They always call hurriedly the afternoon before the interview and ask you to come in. The same applies to second-round interviews. They arrange interviews like elementary school students, making arrangements on a whim, with no planning or professionalism whatsoever.

During the interview, someone may suddenly barge in, only to say they are there to pick something up. HR even smiled and said it was fine for them to come in. This shows no respect for job candidates. After listening to your self-introduction, they leave you alone in the conference room without introducing any details about the company—as if HR is only responsible for scheduling and all the details must be explained by managers from other departments.

The company’s systems are terrible. You can experience this deeply ingrained attitude just from the interview process. I sincerely advise all job seekers not to waste their time with this company; you will only receive extremely poor responses and arrogant demands.

It would be nice if I could encounter some normal employees.

The company policies are extremely poor.

Benefits:

1. Training: Handled perfunctorily—you are simply sent into battle.

2. Bonuses/gifts: None. Don't even think about it.

3. Insurance: Labor and health insurance are provided, but I heard from someone in HR who resigned that there may be underreporting and underpayment.

4. Recreation: Come organize the office every Friday afternoon.

5. Policies: Regular performance evaluations; if you fail to meet the target, prepare to be called out relentlessly. Promotion? You don't even get a raise, and you still want a promotion?

6. Leave policy: Annual leave? You may not get the chance to take it. Menstrual leave for female employees? It still requires the president's approval.

There is no overtime pay—only compensatory leave. However, you usually cannot use all of the compensatory leave because you will be very busy, too busy to take time off.

High turnover

There are surveillance cameras everywhere in the company

The boss is ridiculous and published a magazine with the final section dedicated to praising himself