日商象印股份有限公司

Enjoying a life better than retirement

A bunch of people think they’re really capable and important at this company, but the work is all outsourced. They’re just points of contact—what’s there to be proud of? Truly speechless.

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I interviewed for an e-commerce position a while ago and got the job. Before joining, the job responsibilities were presented as very respectable and ideal, but after joining I found out that it was actually assistant work. I have since left the company.

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1. The company keeps a bunch of idle people on the payroll until retirement, while outsourcing the work of many departments. So what exactly are these people here for? Then they turn around and say the company is losing money and not making a profit. When problems arise, colleagues shirk responsibility and sabotage one another without limits.

2. Field staff often go out for meals. The Japanese employees and senior managers dine at company expense, and the product department also frequently goes out to eat on the company’s tab for no particular reason. Managers in internal departments make up excuses to go out for meals and claim reimbursement as well, and some even settle expense accounts privately without disclosure. Quite a few people are using this company to coast into retirement while draining it dry.

3. The company’s old-timers are very good at increasing their own salaries. New hires receive no benefits; the company only suppresses their pay. Don’t be fooled by the sales talk—once you join, your salary will be that of a cheap laborer.

4. Field sales is not valued by the company. The Japanese employees and departments throughout the company see sales as useless and as a bunch of losers. The sales department has the lowest salaries in the company, and also receives the smallest year-end bonuses. Performance bonuses are paid only once a year. The online-channel team is also a despised department, and the managers are not clean-handed, so be careful if you join.

5. The Zojirushi brand is declining in markets worldwide and getting worse by the day. If you join, be mentally prepared for there to be no benefits whatsoever: employee trips ❌ bonuses ❌. Many benefits have been cut completely.

6. There is a lot of petty, meddlesome behavior. Every unpleasant thing you can imagine happens here. If you don’t like that, stay away.

7. If you still want to join after reading all of the above, all I can say is: may heaven protect you.

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The older employees (with more seniority) really like dumping work on newcomers and then going out to enjoy themselves. To make matters worse, they haven’t even signed an official business-trip form.

Buying personal items and charging them to the company account—it’s not the first time!

The bonus base is relatively high, I suppose. It's a typical office job with little overtime.

The Minquan Building is filthy, and the office is full of cockroaches.

There are pitifully few toilets. The men's restroom has two, which is okay, but the women's restroom also has only two. To make matters worse, sewage and urine leak out, and the toilets are often clogged and overflow—it's absolutely disgusting!

The elevators are terrible and extremely slow. They have been under repair for over a year! This has already seriously affected work!

The middle-aged women here are extremely annoying and love shamelessly gossiping about other people.

Why do you care if someone takes leave? Why do you care if someone gets married? They even make fun of people who resign. How can people like this live for so long…

Also, only a small number of the sales staff are normal people who know how to say “please,” “thank you,” and “sorry.” The rest treat people like underlings and order them around.

Please think twice before coming for an interview.