凱渥實業股份有限公司

1. Convenient transportation, close to the MRT station, making it convenient to come to the company to work overtime

2. There is a botanical garden nearby, with many green plants, so you can rest your eyes while working overtime

3. Emphasis on environmental protection and a spirit of cherishing and preserving things; office supplies and computers that are more than ten years old can still be provided for work use

4. Pursuit of spiritual growth: salaries, holiday bonuses, year-end bonuses, and the like are replaced with verbal encouragement, allowing employees to set off again filled with positive energy

5. Many tasks and responsibilities, allowing you to quickly learn new things and develop your own portfolio of side skills

6. Someone resigns every month, helping you develop the ability to not be afraid of strangers and quickly adapt to new colleagues

7. Weekday overtime cannot be exchanged for compensatory leave or overtime pay, cultivating good work efficiency

8. Managers and senior employees like to “communicate loudly,” filling the office with a warm, human atmosphere

9. Using multiple communication apps simultaneously cultivates the ability to switch between apps quickly without missing messages

10. The managers are very caring and even send messages late at night to check on employees’ physical well-being

How could such a great company have any shortcomings?

If I really had to say, it’s that there are too many advantages to count

Please compare the pros and cons side by side. First, let me add that everything described below is true:

1. The company’s exterior looks very beautiful and lush with greenery.

2. It has a great reputation and seems to have been a well-known company in its early days.

3. There is also a café on the first floor, with employee discounts. (I forgot how much the discount is; I’ve never had anything there.)

4. You can occasionally see celebrities at the company.

5. You are trained to be versatile and take on multiple roles, while also developing your patience, brain cells, and hearing.

6. You develop a sense of loyalty to the company and experience the loyalty of standing together through difficult times.

7. You are trained to be socially adept and to interact with department heads from all sides.

8. You get to challenge the requirements of the Labor Standards Act, as well as the health of your liver.

9. You develop the social skills to flatter and curry favor with the company’s royal relatives and state-owned-enterprise connections.

Please read carefully. Unless you are cheap and useful and don’t use your brain, you can skip the following:

1. A great deal of the company building’s interior is not maintained, because five people can leave the General Affairs position in six months alone. Management is helpless and simply leaves things unattended, waiting for the next scapegoat to come along and deal with them. There is no need to elaborate on the gaps in between.

2. In reality, not many people have even heard of Catwalk now. Partner organizations have even said directly in meetings that their target audience has never heard of Catwalk.

3. At the café on the first floor, the boss’s wife—who is treated like a royal relative of the state-owned enterprise—always has all kinds of requirements and rules for Catwalk employees. She treats Catwalk employees as her own personal servants. The entire café only needs to hire attractive servers; everything else can simply be dumped on the Catwalk employees upstairs. She constantly interferes, lectures, and makes demands as if she owns the place, even though she has not spent a single cent hiring you.

(Also, the company does not provide a snack cabinet. Employees have to put in NT$10 themselves to use the coffee machine, while the café’s coffee is both expensive and terrible.)

4. They are all celebrities whose names you cannot even recognize. Even celebrities with fewer followers than the influencer cats and dogs next door will act arrogantly and give you attitude.

5-1. The offer each person receives in their interview is different from the actual work they are expected to perform. After several rounds of downsizing, everyone’s workload increased, but salaries did not. When negotiating pay, the company will only tell you that it is not making money, or say that your work performance is inadequate, then skip the evaluation and automatically extend your probation.

5-2. The company’s senior employees have been sitting in their positions for a very long time—so long that their voices have gotten louder and their emotional management has deteriorated. From time to time, you can suddenly hear someone losing their temper and shouting at their desk, or a supervisor rushing out of an office and yelling. Over time, some non-managerial colleagues also become irritable and periodically shout at people they can order around. It is quite lively.

5-3. The boss’s interview schedule can only be confirmed early on the same day. In the afternoon, they may invite someone to come and wait for two and a half hours, only to stand them up, claiming that this is a test of the interviewee’s patience and how much they want to join Catwalk.

6. There are no bonuses for the three major holidays, no year-end bonus, no year-end banquet, and no spring banquet. The red envelope given at the start of the year is a voucher for the company’s own e-commerce site (an e-commerce site that cannot even be found by searching its keywords), and only one voucher can be used per order.

7. The management of each department keeps to itself. Their approaches to work are inconsistent, communication is lacking, and mutual resentment develops. Shouting and slamming tables in meetings are normal, and it is also common for people to dislike you indirectly because they dislike your department head.

8. You are not given overtime pay or compensatory time off for working overtime on weekdays. From time to time, you can see colleagues working until 11 p.m. or even into the next day.

9-1. As long as you are good enough with words and know how to act cute with the company’s royal relatives and state-owned-enterprise connections, you can earn a high salary. You can even claim that plans and projects you did not work on were completed by you—after all, the royal relatives and state-owned-enterprise connections will believe that you completed them alone.

9-2. As long as you pretend to be pitiful enough, when you cannot finish your work, your supervisor will automatically dump it on other colleagues, allowing you to go chase celebrities.

Summary:

The boss thinks that Catwalk is big and famous, and that if you do not stay, remain, or come here, it is your loss.

So, if you are cheap and useful, welcome to the Catwalk family.

A big name

No bonuses for the three major holidays or year-end bonus.

None of the benefits you imagined. Ideally, you should be capable of handling both internal and external functions, and provide the company with top-tier feedback.

Because my company is big!

Then there are some people who can't produce anything as an example but talk as if they know everything, while their execution is zero and they say, “I don't know how.” 😆😆😆😆

The company is located in a neighborhood near the botanical garden (a large villa). It is impressive and beautiful, and transportation is fairly convenient.

The explanation of the brand’s operations made no sense.

It didn’t answer the questions: What is the name of the brand? What is the advertising and business-operation plan? Although they said it involved developing products related to celebrities, they still couldn’t explain the marketing plan… (I really searched online and couldn’t find much about the Kaiwo brand side.) Only two years into the business?

Live streaming and selling products? What exactly is the business model? 😥 A quality-brand e-commerce business?

😂 I still really don’t know what brand it is or what celebrities are involved. They went on and on about so many people I’ve never even heard of…

Is the entire Catwalk system really going downhill? 🤔

The internet is highly developed, so I suggest doing some research first to find out what kind of brand marketing they are actually engaged in…

Convenient transportation

There’s too much～ Let me take a deep breath first......

❶ All that glitters is not gold (the office space is like this; the company’s operating condition is the same).

Things are no longer what they used to be. The company no longer has any decent artists to manage (don’t mention Lin Chi-ling, Sui Tang, Tiffany Hsu, Patty Chen... those are all painful history; they and Catwalk are no longer in contact, until death do them part....). Senior management always says, “Catwalk is a tall, big, and high-end brand,” using this to suppress new employees who were foolishly deceived into joining and wanted to innovate and make changes. Yet, from top to bottom, they are all helpless fools!!!

❷ From the general manager to the minor staff, anyone can arbitrarily “shout loudly at people.”

It is recommended that you wear earplugs at work so your ears are less likely to suffer occupational damage. The so-called senior executives (the founding veterans from back then) lose their tempers at the slightest thing, glaring and blowing their tops; both their appearance and voices are quite frightening!

❸ Low-paid people are pitiful; high-paid people are in danger.

Agents are generally between 30 and 50 years old, and their salaries are unbelievably low! When asked why they don’t resign, they can only put on a bitter expression and say: “I can only do this.....” Truly a traditional industry! Newly recruited, god-tier employees easily “resign of their own accord” in a short time; or, because the company cannot sustain their high salaries for long, they are “asked to leave.” In short, high-paid people never stay long!

The interview was clearly explained. They said that people at the company are all impolite and like to directly and harshly order people around, calling out instructions for everything, so working in general affairs would be very exhausting.

Today I’m here to talk about the outcome of not showing up after the interview: Kawo reported me for being hired but failing to show up, and I was suspended by the recruitment website for one month.

This is what happened. During my interview with Kawo, I explained that I still had interviews with other companies and said that I hoped to report to work one week after receiving notification. The information I filled out also clearly stated this. It happened to be around the Lunar New Year, and on the last day they notified me to report on the day work resumed. However, I had to prepare to open a bank account, so I requested to postpone my start date. Kawo also did not send me another hiring notice afterward (that is, I never received a single hiring notice from them). Only after the Lunar New Year holiday ended did they send me a hiring notice. However, after consideration, I decided not to go on the day I was supposed to report and sent an email at 8:00 a.m. explaining the reason (I disliked the company’s impolite atmosphere) and informing them that I would not be reporting to work (Kawo’s working hours start between 9:30 and 10:00). After that, 104 notified me that I had violated the rules and suspended my account. They explained that the matter was resolved, but I feel that I had already notified them in advance that I would not be reporting, so this really wasn’t necessary. Sure enough, just as they said during the interview, everyone there is impolite, because they themselves are too…

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As soon as the supervisor came in, they didn’t even look at me and immediately told me to introduce myself. After I introduced my previous work experience, the supervisor responded with a very disdainful expression.

Throughout the entire interview, I felt as though I was being looked down on, which was extremely uncomfortable. The process ended after about ten minutes. If you feel that a candidate’s work experience is unsuitable, please don’t invite them to an interview, only to continually humiliate them at the interview and look down on them from an extremely arrogant position. Anyone planning to interview should be mentally prepared.

1. The location is fairly convenient

1. The supervisor seemed very tired

2. The interview content was COMPLETELY different from what was required for the posted position!

3. The office felt gloomy, and everyone seemed rather dispirited

4. There was a lot of information to fill out before the interview

Fortunately, there was an interview; otherwise, I would have been very disappointed

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Exploiting employees by relying on its (past) reputation; the pay is extremely poor and there is no overtime pay. The system is traditional, the thinking is rigid, and it is very old-fashioned and authoritarian.

People with ability, expertise, and ideals are not suited to working here; this place only needs people who can endure hardship and follow orders.

Unlimited coffee

Departments merged. Everyone, don’t be foolishly deceived by the reputation. The shameful practice of opening a job posting to trick people into working on a single project actually exists.

You can get in touch with many PR professionals from well-known brands.

The overtime is extremely serious, the starting salary is very low, and there is no proper overtime pay. The boss verbally abuses people with humiliating language, and veteran employees also bully newcomers. The company completely disrespects employees’ personal space, expects them to be available whenever called, and does not care about their physical or mental well-being. I hope everyone will not naively join this company just because of the prestige of the KAOHSIUNG name. This company has none of the dignity or systems befitting its reputation.