睿澤企業股份有限公司

The interview process was fairly pleasant.

The HR manager and an HR representative called separately to inform me that I had been hired and said they would send me an offer. However, because they urgently wanted me to start work, I said I needed to follow the normal handover and resignation procedures. After that, I never received the offer, nor was I notified that I had not been selected. After waiting a day, I had to call them myself to ask.

The job responsibilities and salary are described very attractively.

They give you time to get up to speed.

In reality, it isn't like that.

The workload only keeps expanding,

without any increase in salary or bonuses.

The company's vision is very vague, with no way to achieve it.

There are few resources, yet a lot is expected of you.

Colleagues are easy to get along with

The systems are very disorganized

Complies with the Labor Standards Act.

Basically, there are no standard procedures, systems, or documentation. There is no project management or information integration system; information is exchanged through instant-messaging groups or by phone. It is a traditional-industry company that has remained in startup mode for more than 20 years.

Many meetings are held every month and every week. Topics are only raised and discussed during meetings, and there may not necessarily be conclusions or meeting minutes. Everyone’s offices are within walking distance, but most people prefer to discuss matters only in front of their superiors, letting them listen and make the decisions. Meetings last at least two hours.

Roles, responsibilities, and job scopes are poorly defined. You have to do whatever your supervisor tells you to do; otherwise, they will tell you to get lost.

You can glean this company’s corporate philosophy and inherited culture from the catchphrase of a senior retainer: “I don’t give a damn what happens to you” (in Taiwanese Hokkien).

The founder believes employees should complete preparatory study before coming to work. HR may also forget that new hires have not yet received training, but corporate wage slaves are expected to be combat-ready from day one. Keep it up!

The company purchases fragrances from other manufacturers and then adjusts the formulas, and designs, manufactures, or purchases the containers. If you think this is a fragrance company, think carefully.

[Afterword]

Before reporting for work, I had read all the articles written by previous employees and thought, “Are these people’s stress tolerances really that low?”

Only after working here did I realize that everything written about this place is in a realistic style. Anyone with the insight to understand it will get it instantly.

Believe me, I’ve tried my best, but I really can’t think of any pros to write.

The company looks like it has everything, but once you really join, you realize it actually has nothing.

Whether it’s policies or benefits, they’re all like this!

I’m only happy on the morning of the first day of each month because I can go to the 4th floor and get a good rest.

There’s no break in the morning, so I’m exhausted. They keep pushing productivity all day, and there’s also a team leader. Emotions can run wild. Even small processed items come back defective, so I always have to spend time reworking them myself. The company even canceled lunch. How good can a company like this really be?

Overtime pay can be exchanged for compensatory leave, so you don’t have to go to work so early because you can take compensatory leave. The company understands how hard we work and has extended the deadline for using compensatory leave to three months.

I can’t think of any advantages.

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You can work overtime, but the overtime budget has been completely cut, so you can only accept your fate and choose compensatory leave instead (which must be used within three months).

All senior managers are helicopter managers, and the average employee tenure is less than one year (the company has been established for 20 years).

The senior managers are very capable: they do not write approval forms themselves, but know how to let subordinates take the bullets. You must be prepared to make sacrifices and dedicate yourself.

Punctual working hours

1. The company’s organizational structure changes every few days. Today you are responsible for Client A, and next week it becomes Client B. The division of responsibilities between departments is also unclear. Especially when a department messes up, because it has strong backing, other departments end up taking the blame—you can get caught in the crossfire even while doing nothing.

2. This is a company with a 20-year history, yet fewer than half of the non-production-line full-time employees have been here for at least one year. In one unit, someone with eight months’ tenure is already considered a veteran. As a result, everyone is new and out of the loop. Even clients find the turnover unbelievably high because the people assigned to handle them are constantly being replaced.

3. There are far too many pointless meetings. Sometimes, even decisions reached in meetings with clients are later denied by a certain department on the grounds that they “didn’t know,” effectively pretending the matter never happened. This angers the clients and leaves other departments to clean up the mess.

4. You still have to reply on LINE after work, and the same applies on holidays. If you don’t reply, people will even criticize you for it.

5. Work procedures are constantly changing. Today you are told to use Method A, and before long you are told to use Method B. Everything you did before becomes wasted effort, and you may even be sarcastically told, “I was just giving you a direction—you need to use your brain!”

6. Salaries are generally low. Infighting among senior management is severe, yet they assume no one knows who is behind it. They are too cowardly to send emails themselves and instead make others send, under their own names, whatever they dictate, thinking this is clever. They only dare reply to emails when it concerns trivial matters.

If all you talented people out there think this kind of environment sounds like fun, our company welcomes you to join us!

If you're thinking of applying for the Sales Specialist position, please think twice～ The sales team here mainly handles products for OEM customers, but the costs here⋯ make customers want to simply skip past us whenever they come across us. Yet the boss requires the sales staff to come up with every possible tactic to keep pushing proposals, and to have at least one conference call with customers every quarter to reiterate the progress of all current projects, chase orders, and put pressure on customers. But if customers want a price reduction⋯ no way. If customers want to look for other products⋯ there aren't any. It ends up being neither genuine contract manufacturing nor genuine branding.

It's like a beef noodle shop: customers only want beef noodles or half-tendon, half-meat noodles, but the noodles cost more than those at competitors', and the taste⋯ you can't really feel that it's 'better' than the competitors'. Yet the boss requires us to promote beef meatballs / beef rice bowls / beef shabu-shabu / steak / premium filet mignon to customers⋯ and to keep walking over to their tables to make sales, while reciting the current preparation stage of the beef noodles they just ordered. Then they ask for chopped scallions⋯ which is inconvenient, so the customer is told to wait a moment while we go out to buy scallions and come back; it will take about three hours to be ready⋯ Right now, beef shabu-shabu would be more suitable; it's faster, so order first and eat first. Of course it's more expensive, because the broth is made from beef soup stock, and the meat slices have to be specially selected with marbled fat⋯ Are you interested? Our minimum order quantity is three liters of beef soup stock. A deposit must be paid in advance, but the beef noodles you just ordered cannot be canceled, and payment for the noodles has not yet been received. Please pay quickly, or we won't let you have the shabu-shabu.

This is what the specialists are required to do⋯⋯ If all the talented people out there find this interesting, Rui Ze welcomes you. Oh⋯ as for the salary, only those with five years of experience earn over 40K. We have an ABC in our department who worked in the UK for two years and in the US for five years, yet earns less than 37K. They also have to reply to the boss or supervisor's LINE messages at eleven or twelve at night. This is what a sales specialist's work life looks like here.

The company changes its policies from morning to evening and has no principles; everything depends on the boss’s mood and ideas.

The boss and managers have no professionalism at all. When they say they want something, they demand it immediately, without considering whether there is enough time or staff.

They favor specific vendors. Policies are sometimes implemented not based on whether they are effective, but on whether the vendor can make money. After the vendor makes money and the product is produced, the boss also expects the staff below to be responsible for making the product profitable.

Internal conflicts are severe. Senior managers like to push work onto others, but they like taking credit even more.

When something goes wrong, they push subordinates out to take the blame, so turnover is extremely high...

They also prefer employees who have no opinions; robots would be ideal.

People with their own ideas are either dismissed or unable to tolerate it and resign.

They will also become the subject of gossip.

If possible, they would use foreign workers, dispatched workers, and part-time students for everything to save on personnel costs.....

When they have no choice but to hire full-time employees, they make them take on multiple roles to recoup the cost.

The turnover rate is outrageously high, but during interviews, HR will only tell you, “The turnover rate has been high in recent years because of the factory relocation.”

Anyone unfortunate enough to interview there can ask, “When will the factory be relocated?” and “How many non-production-line employees have been there for more than a year?”

The rules change at the drop of a hat, and the system is run entirely according to someone’s whims. When certain people are involved, things take a complete 180-degree turn, while everyone else is expected to take responsibility for “them”; meanwhile, those people abuse their connections to do whatever they want!

Salaries are generally low, and there are constant disturbances on LINE even after work. Anyone considering joining should think it through carefully—don’t waste your time earning little money while also having to put up with this treatment!

The boss is very good at public speaking—a typical cultured, literary speaker—and treats people kindly. He is also a devout Christian. However, the organization’s leadership is very poor. Major company matters require consultants from a certain business management consulting firm to make internal company decisions, and the organizational structure is frequently changed, which can easily leave people at a loss. They are also only willing to pay low salaries while demanding extremely high-quality work. The people in our laboratory have highly qualified backgrounds, with master’s degrees and TOEIC scores of 800 or above. Other than the manager mentioned above, none of our general specialists earn 40,000, and the manager says that he earns only a little over 10,000 more than us. You can imagine… As for other departments, I heard that the sales department replaced more than 20 people last year. Management says they all ‘left voluntarily’ because they failed to meet the company’s performance targets within the required period…