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There’s an MRT station and a McDonald’s nearby.

They do pay a salary.

The hardware is all really old.

So is the office.

They keep bombarding you with LINE messages even after work.

And they’re still over there going on about “sustainable business.”

People can’t even sustain themselves.

What’s the point of a job that offers nothing but money and no life?

I submitted my résumé at 2 p.m. and received an interview invitation by 5 p.m., so the response time was fairly quick.

The manager’s attitude was extremely casual. The phone display initially showed the CommonWealth Magazine switchboard number, but after answering, I found out it was the manager personally. We had a brief phone interview in which they simply asked about my current job and background, but it felt like they were forcing the conversation (pretending to understand things they actually didn’t), which was quite baffling.

Later, because I received an offer from another job, I emailed to cancel the interview. Two hours after the scheduled interview time, the manager called and immediately berated me. It was incredibly baffling—they hadn’t even checked their email and still called to complain, which was extremely rude. Chen 00, the manager of the digital department, is this person.

Department: Digital Video

Position: Reporter

Pros:

1. NT$5,000 at each of the three major holidays

2. In addition to the salary, there are bonuses based on video traffic, bonuses for executing company advertising projects, and separately calculated writing fees—overall, the compensation is above the industry average

3. The supervisor is very good, provides many learning opportunities, and also helps shield you from a lot of unnecessary hassles

4. The female president is very encouraging and places great importance on employees and the issues they raise

5. The colleagues are very easy to get along with~ The office atmosphere is harmonious

6. You can leave work extremely punctually

Basically, I learned a lot of things here. (People who say they cannot learn anything probably have not properly confronted their own issues; personally, I think there is something to learn at every company.) There are also free weekly magazines to read~ so you can keep up with current events~

Of course, the company is not perfect, but overall, it is still a great company~

There is no fixed annual salary increase

Three sections, 5,000.

Those with experience can additionally learn financial management knowledge due to the environment.

The employer is traditional but still reasonably understanding.

1. All the supervisors in a certain department got in through connections (a fruit-themed media company), and their abilities are not particularly impressive.

2. There is a clear shortage of manpower, and some positions are almost expected to handle everything.

3. When a cushy supervisor position opens up, someone with connections is parachuted in (it will not be posted on 104); exhausting entry-level positions are posted on 104 to recruit people (note: this is the culture of that department).

4. Because the entire management level consists of people with connections, issues raised basically never reach the top level (the employer), unless you bypass the chain of command directly.

5. There are absolutely no opportunities for promotion or career development. Promotions go to people with connections, opportunities go to people with connections, and troublesome tasks are assigned to people without connections. You are basically unlikely to get a raise either.

A piece of advice for anyone considering joining this company: negotiate a higher salary from the start. You will not learn much either; in terms of new media, this company is still basically in the “crawling” stage (and shows no sign of wanting to improve).

Also, this company’s systems and the employer are actually not much of a problem (they are even fairly good). The problem is the large number of supervisors who got in through connections, which has thrown the entire company into chaos.

1. Suitable for young recent graduates to build up a little so-called reputation.

2. Everything required by basic legal regulations is provided! (But it will not go beyond what is required by the Labor Standards Act.)

3. Salaries are currently paid normally. (That is also because Business Weekly has currently applied for government relief, and the government is subsidizing employees’ salaries~)

4. A soft-media atmosphere, suitable for people with a Chinese-language-and-literature background!

5. Convenient transportation!

6. A wide variety of food options nearby, making it convenient to eat!

1. Only after joining the company do they tell you that your labor and health insurance will be insured under another subsidiary.

2. A company that shows very little respect for professionalism—the job content will later become completely different! By then, if you want to jump ship, you will not be able to get away~

3. Other than the monthly salary, do not expect much else. Just take the grand promises made during the interview with a grain of salt.

4. The supervisors are all the people who have been there the longest; if you stay long enough, that will be you~ Because everyone else leaves before completing a year!

5. The top executive is an owner rather than a professional manager and often yells loudly in the company. Things improved somewhat after the new president took over.

6. A media outlet that leans toward the pan-green camp; criticism related to articles on the website is extremely biased.

7. The building is old, the office partitions are old, and there are no dividers between desks.

8. Books and miscellaneous items are scattered all over the office floor—a company that does not value tidiness or appearances.

You can read magazines for free every week (I finally thought of a pro).

There is no overtime pay. You can only request compensatory leave when you work on activities on weekday evenings or holidays. If you do not use up your compensatory leave or annual leave, you cannot take sick leave or personal leave.

A certain vice president will keep an eye on every team member when a group’s performance is poor, or when the president reprimands them, and so on. If your overtime hours are too low, you may be called in for a face-to-face review of your work attitude. They also often assign work on holidays (especially before or during long weekends), or post assignments or motivational messages in the Line group after work on weekday evenings, requiring everyone to reply one by one while counting the number of people who have read and replied. Sometimes, they will ask an assistant to compile everyone’s reply status and submit it in a list.

Apart from those at the managerial level and above, employees who have been with the company for about one year can more or less be considered senior employees (and even many managers joined only about a year ago). Personally, I would describe the abilities, thinking, and behavior patterns of managers as being from ancient times; you can each assess whether it suits you.

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The department with the most people on the eighth floor does not pay overtime. The supervisor will keep contacting you on holidays to chat, then brag about their experience from 15 years ago.

The supervisor's writing is quite frightening; journalists who want to write good articles are not advised to come here.

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The supervisor is an incompetent person who is easily angered when embarrassed, and the job described in the interview does not match the actual job responsibilities.

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1. Low salary

2. Underreported labor and health insurance wages

3. Long working hours; sometimes required to work on days off and public holidays. Depending on the situation, required to arrive at the company early to work, but there is no overtime pay or compensatory time off

4. No overtime pay, no overtime pay, no overtime pay

5. Sometimes overtime can be exchanged for compensatory time off, but in practice the long working hours mean there is no opportunity to take it

6. When applying for annual leave... the supervisor will deliberately make things difficult

7. Work is often assigned close to the end of the workday. The supervisor considers working overtime every day to be a matter of course; instead, if you want to leave on time, you have to tell them in advance, as they believe that if there is nothing to do at night, you should work overtime

The interviewer treated me to MOS Burger black tea (but interviewing at MOS Burger was genuinely odd).

I interviewed for the editorial outsourcing department. It essentially takes on internal publications for government agencies or businesses and has nothing to do with Business Today itself. Here’s some information to save future applicants time:

The job description on the job bank only briefly says “editorial, planning, and related tasks,” but after the actual interview, they told me the role would involve everything from proposals and planning to editing, coordinating with writers and graphic designers, serving clients, and finally printing. If a writer’s draft wasn’t up to standard, I would also have to conduct interviews myself, and occasionally travel out of town and stay overnight.

I don’t really understand why a major publication like Business Today would be so secretive even when posting a job opening. When it came time to discuss the salary range, they also failed to give a direct answer, saying only that they would contact me later. Given the generally exploitative conditions in the media industry, this kind of job probably requires sleeping at the office every day without receiving reasonably commensurate compensation.

Proactively invited you to an interview

Then stood you up and never followed up. Sending a message to HR through the job bank was just as useless. What a joke~