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Read the community guidelines1. Good relationships among colleagues
2. Snacks are provided
3. Cats to pet
1. Frequent overtime
2. An autocratic boss and company
3. You’re asked to propose solutions, but in reality you’re expected to guess what the boss is thinking
4. Overtime pay requires an application (which usually isn’t approved)
5. The boss’s moods are unpredictable
6. Lots of meetings
7. The boss loves making grand promises, but there’s never any money to carry them out; everything depends on employees working overtime to achieve results
The rest is basically the same as the previous reviews, so I won’t elaborate.
1. There are about ten cats to cuddle.
2. It’s not very clear what you’re supposed to do, so going to work feels like being on vacation.
3. The work is very flexible.
4. Cleaning the environment before work in the morning can be calming and meditative.
5. The company is located on a quiet little street, and when you don’t feel like working, you can walk around the alley.
6. Close to the Anping Historic District.
7. When the boss isn’t around, you can sneak into the room to take a look.
8. There are small cookies you can keep eating, but be mindful of your carbohydrate intake; increasing your protein intake is recommended.
9. Sometimes colleagues are assigned to take out the trash, giving them an excuse to go out, buy food, and take a little walk.
10. There is a canal nearby where you can take a walk and relax.
11. Close to Tainan’s Grand Ballroom, where you can go dancing at night and experience the nightlife.
12. A-Wen Beef Soup is nearby.
13. There is a delicious Jin-Feng noodle shop nearby.
14. If you work overtime on holidays, the cats will worship you.
15. You can occasionally feed stray cats.
16. There is a refrigerator, a small steamer, and an oven.
17. There is an end-of-year banquet.
18. There are prize drawings.
Honestly, if you want a job but don’t have any particular expectations of yourself and feel that simply finishing the tasks is enough, you might consider submitting your résumé. This place is very suitable for you.
1. The internal structure is collapsing.
2. If you bring your skills here, this is as far as you’ll go; you won’t learn anything (because there’s no one who can teach you).
3. After reaching an agreement during the interview and starting work, basically 70% of the job consists of work outside your professional expertise.
4. It seems like a management position, but it isn’t actually a management role.
5. The internal staff is small (and lacks technical ability), but the boss wants to make very ambitious things.
6. A workplace that consumes your professional life.
7. It’s not very clear what the actual benefits of completing the work are.
8. It looks like an animation company from the outside, but after joining, you’ll wonder whether it really is an animation company.
9. It feels like working on a university graduation project.
10. Cat attacks (a tragedy for your hands).
11. Cat-hair attacks (a tragedy for your clothes).
12. Cat-urine attacks (a tragedy for your computer).
13. The boss has a very unusual temper.
14. The taste in the company’s works is very unusual.
15. They keep bringing up old works from several years ago.
16. There are no new productions.
17. The story of Little Cat Berkeley is very touching.
18. New colleagues keep joining and leaving not long afterward, which makes you feel lonely.
19. The salary is extremely low. With the same abilities, you could get better pay elsewhere, so why not go to northern, central, or southern Taiwan’s major cities?
20. No overtime pay, unclear arrangements for compensatory leave, underreported labor and health insurance wages, and an extremely meager year-end bonus.
21. Because the company doesn’t make money, the boss keeps changing decisions from one day to the next, and your salary may be reduced.
22. Clocking in uses paper time cards, and the time clock is constantly malfunctioning.
23. Internal cohesion is extremely poor (people keep coming and going).
Honestly, if you are passionate about animation, this really is not the place you should come to look for a job. The same applies to recent university graduates. You may think you’ll be able to learn at least a little, but you’ll discover that you’re mostly doing miscellaneous tasks, and there is only so much of what you want to learn that you’ll actually learn. As someone who supports Taiwanese animation, seeing the state of this company is truly very disappointing.
The work environment has cats and dogs, the location is quiet in a residential area, and the colleagues are easy to get along with.
1. Employment is on a one-year contract, with a high likelihood of non-renewal.
2. The pay and benefits are not very good, turnover is high, and promotion is difficult.
3. The probationary period may be extended based on the boss’s subjective judgment; it averages more than three months.
4. The workload is relatively heavy, but overtime pay is promised more often than it is actually received.
5. The boss’s demands are very “high” and they are subjective and autocratic; revisions are the norm, and creativity gets revised to death.
6. Every detail must be approved by the boss. The supervisor, who works overtime every day, is only responsible for assigning work.
7. Cleaning and taking out the trash are required, including picking up dog poop, which smells very bad.
8. Men may be required to help trim tree branches and replace fluorescent tubes.
Experience at a Taiwanese original cultural and creative company, learning in a new field, a serene environment with animals at work, kind and friendly colleagues, a wide range of sweeping and cleaning duties, and improved cleaning skills
The company’s systems have many loopholes, promotions and salary increases are questionable, job responsibilities are unclear, frequent excessive working hours create enormous pressure, overtime pay is unclear, the boss is emotional, supervisors are caught in difficult situations and must bear the burden, and employee turnover is high. Learning about a new field can be a short-term experience and an opportunity to make friends, but do not stay long (the probationary period is often extended for unclear reasons).