亞立田股份有限公司

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About six or seven years ago, I stayed for just one month before running away! I advise everyone not to go there! I only later discovered that they had underreported my labor insurance salary bracket, though I’m not sure how much they deducted; I just happened to check one day and found that the reported bracket was far too low. It’s a family business with an extremely high turnover rate. The supervisor, Harry, is really strange. He didn’t treat me badly, but he really wasn’t capable. There was also a woman responsible for another department who spoke English and loved badmouthing the company, but her salary was relatively high. I don’t know whether those people are still there—I’m posting this to remind everyone not to take the hard way. The company atmosphere is just very strange.

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Throughout the entire process, the interviewer kept asking questions without caring to listen to what I had to say. They repeatedly asked the same questions that had already been asked several times. They also expressed dissatisfaction with my mode of transportation during the interview. In the end, after hearing what they wanted to know, they simply said that was all for today and walked away. It was an extremely frustrating interview experience.

1. The company’s office is very luxurious; it feels like a company situated inside a luxury mansion.

2. You can experience life here—it will absolutely teach you what human nature’s viciousness is like.

If you don’t have strong enough psychological resilience, don’t like forming factions, don’t know how to put on an act, don’t know how to flatter the boss, can only get things done but don’t know how to show it, don’t know how to slack off during work hours, or don’t know how to talk big... if you have any of these symptoms, please think very carefully about whether you want to join this company.

After I left and worked somewhere else for a while, looking back on the experience, I really... There is an underground general manager here whose English name starts with T (the head of the Commerce... Department). If you don’t integrate into her faction, life will be very difficult.

You really see every aspect of life at this company. Several managers here (including T) constantly complain in private about the company, the boss, the junior boss... and then act extremely deferential in front of the boss. One second they’re cursing and slamming a mouse, and the next, when the boss walks over, they use an extremely coquettish voice to ask how the boss is doing. Although I was in a different department, I also saw this huge contrast. It made me lament that I’m just not good enough at acting~~

She (T) showed me what slacking off really means: playing mobile games and watching YouTube videos during work, and for a while even doing handicrafts—discussing whom to prepare gifts for during working hours... Sometimes I would walk over to their department to ask about something and see this scene. I was stunned. This wasn’t ordinary slacking off; it was practically fishing for whales or great white sharks!!

They often fish for great white sharks during work, yet their daily work reports are still filled to the brim. Then they pretend to care about what other departments are doing, stick their noses into everything, and claim that they helped the department with this or that. In reality, they only said a few pointless words, while constantly刷存在感 throughout the company. If you have this skill—making the boss feel as if you do a lot and help the company tremendously—you have a very good chance of becoming a manager here. Then the managers also accuse one another of being fake while going around刷存在感. Those of us underneath them hear all this and are speechless. The pot calling the kettle black; the one who walks fifty steps laughs at the one who walks a hundred—it really is exactly like that.

She and the other managers put on a daily show of *The Empresses in the Palace*—they compete with one another to flatter and curry favor with the boss and junior boss. In private, they keep talking about how the company is, how the boss is, how the junior boss is, and so on, until you think they’re about to leave any day now. If you think that, you’re mistaken. According to former colleagues who are still employed there, they’re all still there.... And they’re doing just fine.

The boss and junior boss like people who are good at expressing themselves. Unfortunately, they lack subtlety and seem unable to see employees who quietly work hard. So if you’re someone who doesn’t know how to talk big, who isn’t the type to do one unit of work and claim to have done three, or who isn’t the type to speak to the boss in an extremely coquettish voice, you can really come here to develop these skills. There are master-level experts here to teach by example.

There’s actually much more, far too much to list. But seeing is believing, so come experience it for yourself; otherwise, everything you hear from others is just hearsay. Experiencing life here yourself is what really counts.

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Time: July 2017

I was previously a marketing planner in the brand department of this company.

The supervisor and brand director, whose surname is Li and whose name is “Harry,” knows nothing about marketing planning.

He is good at driving away the people under him. During his two years there, more than 20 people had already left the brand department because of him (and he still doesn’t know it).

His other specialties include nitpicking and making employees clean up his messes.

I worked there for two months and could no longer tolerate the head of this brand department, so I resigned.

The following are several of the main reasons:

1. He did not understand Google keyword advertising but pretended that he did, and accused employees of being lazy for not making proposals.

It was not that we did not want to operate Google keyword advertising. The main reason was that it must run for more than six months before producing meaningful results.

A fixed amount of the marketing budget must be allocated every month to generate exposure. Otherwise, using a lower budget would not only be ineffective but would also cause the advertising expenses to disappear without results.

I had explained this to the supervisor, but in the end he thought I was slacking off and simply did not want to run the ads. This was ridiculous. The supervisor also did not understand keyword advertising, and even after I explained it, he still could not understand. That was truly unbearable.

2. He held one-on-one meetings with me and criticized A for mistakes.

The company is a family business: the father is the owner and the son is the vice president.

During the days when the vice president was away, he repeatedly called me into the meeting room for “one-on-one” meetings (this supervisor became very arrogant whenever the vice president was absent).

He told me to independently handle the marketing planning activities for “all headphones” and report to him “the day after tomorrow.” Is there a problem with that?

Me: Can I ask A to attend the meeting as well?

Supervisor: A will be leaving soon. You are the marketing planner, so this is your responsibility.

From the time I joined the company until I resigned, I can say with certainty that he completely failed to fulfill his responsibilities as a supervisor.

As the brand director, I never heard a single proposal from him.

On the surface, he said I could make my own decisions, but in practice, he not only rejected the proposals I submitted to him, he also provided no guidance on what to do and no examples.

In addition, during one-on-one meetings with me, he would complain about people in the other brand-department teams, saying that they had poor attitudes toward him and so on.

Why, during a private meeting, would he fail to discuss the main points and instead talk about other people’s mistakes? Was this because he did not dare to hold a meeting with A present as well?

3. He wanted to change the campaign only after the MOMO e-commerce information-month campaign had already started (he had no objections during the meeting discussions or in the daily reports), ignored MOMO’s e-commerce rules, and blamed all the mistakes on subordinates.

- Previously, e-commerce promotions could be offered at 20% off, but because he wanted to make things difficult for me, when I set it at 20% off, he said I was “slacking off.”

- He wanted to make changes only after the campaign had started, even though the matter had been mentioned in the daily emails and weekly meetings beforehand and he had raised no objections.

- He harassed me via Facebook on multiple nights.

- After I explained why the price could not be changed, he still acted as though it was the subordinate’s problem (why had he raised no objections in the daily emails and weekly meetings?).

- In the end, he told MOMO that it was all the subordinate’s fault.

4. The content of his report at each weekly meeting was almost identical and essentially had no substance.

5. The supervisor handled the image advertising video, and he participated in both the pre-shoot discussions and the filming itself.

However, the final filming and post-production of the video were poor, so he dumped all the problems on A to clean up and told her to meet with the advertising agency.

A went to the meeting without understanding what was going on. The supervisor said, “A can decide how to revise it; do whatever she decides.”

After the revisions were completed, the supervisor was still dissatisfied and continued telling her to meet with the advertising agency.

6. If he wants to drive you out, he will first overwhelm you with a pile of work, and then, once you submit your resignation, he will send you to the warehouse to do useless miscellaneous work.

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Time: 2016

-I originally applied for a position in overseas sales. On the day of the interview, the company asked whether I was interested in e-commerce. I said I was willing to learn, so I was hired. The salary was 30,000, plus 1,000 for perfect attendance.

-What they called e-commerce was actually online customer service: replying to customers' inquiries every day, which was quite boring. The company's headphones were very expensive, and the boss was unwilling to lower the prices. Basically, everyone was scared off by the prices, which were often double the usual price. But if you didn't get any orders, the boss would keep asking from time to time, "Any orders lately?"

-The job listing said there were 200 employees, making you think it was a large company. Most employees were at factories in mainland China, while the Taipei office had only a little over ten people. However, quite a few employees were very scheming, and there was severe infighting.

-It was a family business: the father was the general manager, and the son was the vice president.

The son did not have very good emotional intelligence. Once, I needed him to reply to a customer about an issue. The company used Skype for internal communication. I messaged him several times, but he simply refused to respond, so I had no choice but to walk over to his desk and ask him directly. However, he was playing a mobile game and did not want to deal with me. He just shouted, "You're so annoying."

-When I received my first month's salary, I discovered that I had only been paid 29,000. When I asked about it, the boss said that because I had started work in the middle of the month, I was not eligible for the perfect-attendance bonus. Okay, fine—but that was still 1,000 short. He said that the 30,000 he had agreed to with me included the perfect-attendance bonus, rather than being 30,000 plus 1,000.

So I argued my case, and in the end, he reluctantly paid me the missing 1,000.

-Everyone at the company pretended to work overtime. I left on time every day, and eventually the boss directly said, "If you don't work overtime, then resign." So I resigned.