海盜船科技股份有限公司

Management is fairly hands-off. Although it is said to be a foreign company, the management style is semi-autonomous. Overall, employees get along quite happily.

The manager of this department has many problems, and employees in the department leave at an extremely fast rate. She forms little cliques with her own team leaders, so one team ends up being further divided into three or four smaller cliques. The American managers can only be kept in the dark, while she continues to get promoted.

Before joining this company, I asked around about this department. The advice from other departments was that the woman talks too much and gossips a lot. But I thought that after joining, I would just work obediently, avoid talking too much, and do my own job. Even then, I got into trouble. When asked where I had done poorly or what needed improvement, she could not say. She had HR intervene while she stayed far away. What left the deepest impression was her sour, widow-like face, as if I owed her a lot of money, along with her verbally abusive attitude.

She says you should ask questions if you do not know, but after you ask, she looks at you with a world-weary expression—as if other people cannot sense it. You have worked for decades and know everything inside out, but how much can someone who has only been there a few months or half a year know?

However, this department is very suitable for people who know how to curry favor. As long as you wag your tail at Manager M, you can survive quite well—I am not exaggerating. Later, I kept getting more and more work, and I silently took it all on. Then she kept assigning me increasingly unreasonable and difficult tasks, so I let it go and treated it as something to learn from. But in the end, I was the one who was “let go,” not the somewhat chubby woman next to me who fawned over the female manager and followed her around (because she had been introduced to the company by a former colleague of the female manager). Why am I so angry? Because she only had to be responsible for one thing, yet I was the one who was let go. (And as for the money you owe me for the lunchbox, take the rest of your next life to pay it all back.)

Recently, I heard more about this female manager’s “achievements.” Because she failed to meet her own KPI, she started laying people off recklessly again: those on childcare leave should not come back yet; if you need a job, wait for an opening, because there is no position for you. Whoever got married should not come back either. If you want to appeal, go to the labor bureau; paying a fine will settle the matter. Those who are involuntarily dismissed can simply be paid off and sent away. In any case, the top bosses are all abroad and are foreigners, so they have no idea what you have been doing in Taiwan.

Most people in the company are actually quite nice, but before joining this department, you should think it through carefully.