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Read the community guidelinesFreedom; you can get aesthetic medical treatments, I guess.
The supervisor likes to draw sun cakes, moon cakes—every kind of cake.
Deliberately sows discord and speaks ill of employees to each other.
Causes misunderstandings between employees, leading to arguments at work.
Later, both sides talked it out privately and discovered that the supervisor had secretly taken sides.
BTW, when employees get into trouble, the supervisor will not step in to handle it.
Employees are expected to face it themselves.
Think twice before joining.
When the supervisor makes a mistake, they push the blame onto others.
The interview didn’t involve much waiting.
I was proactively invited to an interview through 1111. The job description indicated that it was related to medical aesthetics, but the interviewer opened by saying they were recruiting a beautician to operate body-treatment equipment..... However, 1111 did not state this. It felt like they were casting a wide net to catch whoever they could; if they found someone, it was a bonus. The position was not clearly described, wasting both parties’ time.
Advice for people who want to interview for a “marketing-related” position at this company: due to various circumstances, I left after only a few days.
The position I originally interviewed for was “Digital Advertising Specialist.” During the interview, I was told that I would be responsible for the company’s digital advertising placements and some work with agencies, while the company had dedicated “graphic designers” and “social media specialists.”
It sounded like the internal structure was very sound, so I decided to join the company.
(I had previously worked at companies with inadequate systems, so I was currently looking for a company with a sound organizational structure.)
But when I joined, my official title was “Marketing Planner.”
The HR staff I encountered were very nice, and my coworkers were also fairly good in terms of their attitude.
The company environment was good.
I did not encounter any internal infighting. It seems that the people who needed to be let go were all cleared out during the wave in March, and the people recruited in July and August seemed to be intended as a new group of staff.
The boss seemed like a reasonable person, but everyone appeared to be very afraid of him?!
I had a brief chat with him before resigning, and it seemed that the company’s problem was that it kept failing to find suitable people or kept encountering the wrong people.
(On the day I resigned, I sent the boss a Line message about the handover items, but he read it without replying.)
Here are several stories to share. Everyone can judge the good and bad for themselves, but after evaluating the situation, I decided that this workplace was not suited to my personality.
When I joined, the company’s digital marketer had already been gone for some time.
Coworker D gave me a sheet of paper and told me to read it myself. After reading it, I found some parts I did not understand,
so I asked D to explain them, and D reluctantly provided an explanation.
After organizing the work content, I found that the most useful information was the contact details for each vendor, because the vendors understood what the company’s advertising was currently doing better than the other internal employees did.
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Me: Does the company have an online image library? (The company actually does not have a dedicated graphic designer; the work is outsourced to mainland China.)
B: I don’t know... But you can look in the company folder. There are images you can use in there.
(I went to look for the company folder; it was very messy...)
Me: Are the images in the folder that are labeled with previous years available for use? Were they purchased outright, or can they only be used during that year?
B: I don’t know....
Me: Then who should I ask?
B: I don’t know. I’m not responsible for this.
(B’s position was in social media, but B did not know the scope of image-library usage.)
D: Those images... (pause) They should be usable, right? Just use them first~ If there’s a problem later, we’ll deal with it then!
Me: .....
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Me: I just confirmed with the boss that these images will be pushed out this week.
D: This image is so ugly... No, you can’t use it! It has absolutely no sense of quality!
Me: But I just confirmed it with the boss! (It seemed that all the employees were very afraid of the boss, so I always confirmed things with him directly to get the fastest answer.)
D: Have you looked at our Instagram? Try to follow the same style as Instagram as much as possible.
Me: Then may I ask whether this Instagram image is copyrighted? Do we have the original image?
(The coworkers began looking at one another.)
A: The copyright... should be there, right? I remember it was handled by a previous coworker. It should be in the company folder.
Me: Could you tell me which folder these kinds of images are kept in? (The company had many messy folders.)
A: I don’t know... They “should” all be in the company folder. Try looking for them.
(A, who was responsible for social media and Instagram, also did not know the scope of material usage, and the images on Instagram were not necessarily copyrighted.)
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Me: Boss, I’d like to discuss the ad settings with you briefly.
Boss: Huh? Ask B. B should know, right?
Me: Okay! I’ll confirm with B later.
(After the boss left, I asked B.)
Me: I’d like to ask about the advertising.
B: I’m not responsible for advertising. I’ve never dealt with it before. (shaking head nervously)
Me: Then who can I ask?
(A and B looked at each other.)
A: I think the coworker who resigned said that we could ask them to come in one day for a handover.
Me: Who can I contact?
(A and B looked at each other again.)
A: HR or D, perhaps?
Me: Okay, I’ll ask them for assistance.
(The next day....)
D: Do you have any other questions about the handover from the departing employee?
Me: Some of the ad settings are a little unusual, and I’d like to ask them about it.
D: But the person who resigned has been gone for a while, so maybe....
Me: They’re not coming back?
D: Right~ So if you have any questions, see who you can ask.
(But when I asked questions, the answer was almost always, “I don’t know”...)
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A few days after I joined, something happened in which several branches had failed to properly handle certain matters (hereinafter referred to as the “Y matter”), which was E’s responsibility. E was supposed to monitor the branches and ensure that they handled the Y matter properly, but it seemed that the Y matter had not been done for several months.
After each store learned that its failure to handle the Y matter had been discovered, they called senior people at the office and tried to smooth things over with E, hoping the boss would not find out.
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Me: I’ll push out product information this week! I’ll schedule it for Sunday.
A: Uh... Do you want to confirm the push time with F?
Me: Hmm? I already confirmed it with the boss.
A: Although F is responsible for replying to messages 24 hours a day, it might be... difficult on holidays. You should contact him by phone.
(I called F.)
F: Sorry, although I’m responsible for replying to messages 24 hours a day, holidays may be inconvenient, and the store is closed on Sundays, so it may be difficult to coordinate. Ah! Whatever you do, don’t tell the boss.
Me: I understand. Should I schedule it for Saturday or something? (People are more likely to see a push notification on a holiday.)
F: Could you schedule it on a non-holiday? That would make it easier for me to arrange as well.
(The company operates under a responsibility-based work system.)
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That’s my experience. Sharing it with you~
The company’s social media employees were not originally social media staff. Because the previous people had all resigned, they began helping with social media and were responsible for publishing posts.
When asked questions, they would say: “I wasn’t originally responsible for this. I don’t know...”
Regarding performance, digital marketing carries greater responsibility. Anyone with experience knows that social media and digital advertising content are inseparable. Before I joined, the company said it hoped I could use data to provide suggestions for its social media, but once I joined, there were no images when images were needed, the social media staff did not know anything when asked, and there did not seem to be any intention to discuss marketing strategy. As in the situations above, when it came to sharing information and cross-departmental communication, basically everyone just did their own tasks.
Before I resigned, I suggested that the company would be better off finding a manager to coordinate everything, but they said their experience with managers had been very poor, so everything was handled directly by the boss. But..........
I’ll leave that to the brave ones ^_^
No advantages
The company uses extremely underhanded tactics to force employees to resign
The boss also verbally humiliates you to drive you out
They make you resign voluntarily
That way, they don't have to pay severance
The infighting within the company is terrifying
The interview was fairly friendly....
The company’s HR notified me by message that I had been hired and congratulated me on joining the company, and told me what date I could start work. After I confidently resigned from my job, I called to ask about it, only to be told that due to staffing arrangements, they currently had no need for me! They even said, “You can go look for another job.” I was speechless⋯⋯
What kind of company is this? They don’t keep their word!
They explain things unclearly. Everyone, please be sure to choose carefully!