世潮企業股份有限公司

There are still some decent people (very few).

The supervisor always says, “We’re all one family,” and we have indeed deeply felt this family-like care.

It is best not to leave your seat for more than five minutes; if you extend that slightly due to physiological needs, you must also proactively report your whereabouts. If you fail to report in time, the supervisor will demonstrate exceptionally attentive care by thoughtfully sending various health articles, reminding the person concerned to get a medical checkup and asking whether something might be wrong.

Under such meticulous care, colleagues’ bodies have gradually developed some noteworthy changes: some have suffered severe constipation because they have been unable to relax for long periods; some have endured unbearable abdominal pain but still hesitated to leave their seats, worried that they would later have to explain the reason in detail; and some have developed the excellent habit of checking the time, arranging someone to cover for them, and looking around before going to the restroom, as though carrying out an important task requiring meticulous planning.

I originally thought that using the restroom was merely a basic physiological need. Only after coming here did I understand that it is also a specialized discipline requiring a high degree of responsibility, discipline, and team spirit.

The supervisor’s dedication to the workplace is also deeply impressive.

Especially when the boss appears, she can always be seen hurrying back and forth between departments, creating the impression that the company’s entire operation depends on her alone.

The interesting thing, however, is that when a vendor calls and says they would like to speak directly with the supervisor, this busyness instantly transforms into a mysterious state of unreachability, and junior colleagues usually end up handling the matter instead.

If things go smoothly, it is naturally thanks to the supervisor’s capable leadership; if friction arises with a vendor, responsibility is often passed downward with remarkable efficiency. Many decision-making problems that originally came from management, after passing through layer upon layer of transformation, ultimately land precisely on a particular colleague. One cannot help but admire the maturity and stability of this responsibility-allocation system.

One especially enviable feature is the high importance placed on friendship.

The supervisor specifically brought in a friend of several decades to parachute into a management position,

fully demonstrating the corporate culture’s emphasis on connections and trust.

This friend’s main responsibility is generally to observe everyone’s work,

while when colleagues need assistance,

they must first confirm whether his mood is suitable for providing help.

Sometimes, one can even sense the depth and warmth of workplace education from his facial expressions.

The company is equally full of surprises when it comes to performance management.

At the end of every month, everyone receives a heartwarming reminder of how far they are from their target.

After all the colleagues work together, work overtime, and finally succeed in meeting the target,

the bonus that was originally promised magically enters a quantum state—it seems to exist before it is announced, but disappears when it is actually time to pay it. This ability to cultivate employees’ capacity to face impermanence is probably also part of the corporate culture.

1. People with connections: many things have nothing to do with them; people without connections: everything has “something” to do with them.

2. People with connections can continually assign work, while people without connections only have the right to accept tasks and no资格 to speak.

3. People with connections are introduced by their supervisors to upper management and helped to build networks; people without connections are instead trained in resilience and a sense of responsibility.

4. The greatest skill of people with connections is not their ability to work, but their ability to push away every responsibility that should have been theirs and still walk away unscathed.

5. I don’t know what promotions are based on, but it’s definitely not ability.

6. Working like a beast of burden earns no rewards—only freshly baked promises from the supervisor, full of aroma and zero nutritional value.

7. After securing resources for the company, you’ll eventually realize that your supervisor is happier than you are, because the credit has already become theirs.

8. Some supervisors claim credit faster than slimming injections take effect; as for their speed in helping, they’re probably still waiting in line to register.

9. Supervisors love to say, “Let’s help each other.” Translated, it usually means, “You help out for a bit.” The work allocation chart is only announced today, and by tomorrow a pile of work that doesn’t belong to you will have appeared.

10. If you aren’t obedient enough, forget about benefits—even being treated fairly may be a luxury.

11. Your achievements are material for your supervisor to claim credit upward; your supervisor’s mistakes become tasks delegated downward.

12. The better your abilities, the more closely you’re watched, as if your supervisor’s biggest KPI were preventing the boss from discovering your value.

13. As long as your supervisor dislikes you, to-do items will keep appearing endlessly, as if reproducing.

14. The so-called “angel department” in everyone’s eyes is merely packaged more elegantly than the others. Its true competence is debatable, but its superficial polish is certainly flawless.

-----If life has been too smooth, I recommend coming here for the experience. I’m sure you’ll gain a whole new perspective on life very quickly.

No solution.

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1. You’ll be shocked when you first join: about 80% of the colleagues are older women and men (around your parents’ age), while the younger colleagues are almost all interns (who were tricked into coming here?).

2. You join the marketing department, but all decisions are still ultimately made by the general manager.

3. For a company with so many employees, the Office version is from 2007?!

It occasionally won’t open or crashes.

4. Miscellaneous items, packages, and cardboard boxes are piled up haphazardly: in front of the elevator, in the walkways, and in places where no one sits. You’re basically working in a pile of clutter.

5. The company’s old-timers yell and shout as if they were at a traditional market.

6. A certain overweight female supervisor in the marketing department will loudly interrupt you while you’re taking an important call in a common area. Even taking the call for one minute is not allowed.

7. Meetings are extremely, extremely inefficient. It’s really impossible to come up with any marketing ideas when meeting with a group of older women twice your age.

No advantages whatsoever

Working at the front desk is truly miserable. The pay is low to begin with, and the workload is so heavy that it is barely different from doing odd jobs.

They tell you about tasks that were never mentioned during the interview only on your first day of work.

No wonder people quit after just two or three days. It is truly a miracle when anyone stays for a long time.

The manager of a certain department gets very loud whenever there is a meeting or something goes missing—anything that puts her at a disadvantage. She is genuinely noisy. Sometimes, even when wearing headphones during lunch break, you can still hear that manager yelling.

Naturally, the accounting department is no better.

Sometimes when a customer calls, if the loudest person is speaking at the front desk, you cannot hear the customer at all. Even with the volume turned all the way up, you still cannot hear them.

Even asking a question means being passed from person to person. They tell you to ask one person, only for that person to say the issue is not theirs and that you should ask someone else.

All I can say is that this company protects its long-serving employees. Younger employees are made to work like beasts. There are some good departments, but they are extremely few.

Officially, they say your salary may be adjusted after the probationary period, but in reality, it takes hundreds of years before it is increased by even a little.

It is completely different from what was stated in the job posting and résumé.

I sincerely advise anyone applying for this position to be mentally prepared.

If you do not mind earning minimum wage forever and just want to drift through the day, then perhaps you should still go to a better company.

At least the benefits will not be worse.

None at all—cowards need not apply!

1. The company likes to take advantage of employees. If they owe you money, they won’t pay it, because it’s supposedly your responsibility to help out; they’ll only give you compensatory leave!

2. A typical family business—you need to be very good at sucking up to the boss!

3. The second-generation boss is very full of himself and makes decisions based heavily on his mood. Be very careful not to talk back, because he holds grudges. As long as you cater to him, everything will be fine. In short, regardless of whether he is right or wrong, you have to pretend you didn’t see anything!

3. The marketing manager has very little ability, resulting in the people below being completely disorganized. There are a huge number of people, and they are very unprofessional—mostly fresh graduates (because they are easy to deceive and order around). I advise everyone that if you want to learn about marketing, this absolutely should not be your first choice. However, if you want to coast, I do recommend coming here to learn how to flatter people!

4. The family members—the marketing department’s prince and princesses—are in charge of important brands. If they make a mistake, absolutely do not scold them, because they also hold grudges. Turn a blind eye and live in your own world. This proves one thing: “Being born into the right family is important”!

5. The company’s old guard: do not offend them—remember that! Otherwise, you’ll suffer the consequences!

6. If you come to this company, don’t be too ambitious, or you won’t last long!

7. The boss decides everything, big or small; basically, it all depends on his mood!

Some colleagues are friendly

(This place is full of narrow-minded frogs; ambitious young people, do not try.)

?! A super narrow-minded frog of a company?!

Recommended for unambitious young people and skilled brown-nosers to apply as soon as possible.

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Poor employee benefits

- Only an absurd employee-purchase program

- No group insurance and no health checkups

- Salary structure includes a perfect-attendance bonus (the base salary is rock-bottom)

- Employees are told without warning to support matters at other companies, and are not allowed to take leave

No promotion path and no help with work

- Duties are miscellaneous

- Marketing is not respected

**Can you get promoted just by being an alumnus of the founder’s alma mater or by being a full-time brown-noser?!

Outdated strategy and incompetent leadership

: Head honcho suffering from big-head syndrome?!

- Likes showing off academic credentials but lacks leadership ability

- Only knows how to mock competitors, without knowing to stay alert and learn

- Hates employee collaboration and faction-building, effectively imposing martial law

: Is the department manager an untalented hypocrite?!

- Makes a full-time job of talking behind people’s backs

- An extreme fence-sitter who dislikes veteran employees but does not dare confront them

- Dissatisfied with the head honcho’s actions but only dares complain privately

- Envious of a certain department manager and frequently curses them behind their back

- Signature move: golden-cutting—cuts subordinates loose when something goes wrong

- Says marketing is incapable, yet cannot produce examples themself

- Has stated that they only want to coast until retirement and do not want to manage anything

Veteran employees abusing their authority?!

- Follows power and bullies ordinary people

- Likes gossiping about others and reporting on colleagues

#ViolatesLaborStandardsLaw

#DefinitelyWorthReporting

#DoesNotRespectEmployees

#NotWorthStaying

There are absolutely no advantages; even if you force myself, I can't come up with any...

The shortcomings I’m mentioning now account for only a small part:

1. The company environment is extremely noisy. The photocopiers and printers never stop all day, and even disturb employees’ lunch breaks.

2. Employees and the boss alike love shouting. They have poor manners and low standards.

3. Typhoon days off are unpaid.

4. Management really enjoys badmouthing people behind their backs and stirring up trouble. (They say one thing to people and another to ghosts.)

5. As long as someone in management takes a dislike to you, they will do everything they can to target you, find trouble for you, and force you to leave.

6. When traveling to central or southern Taiwan on business, you can only take intercity buses or ride along with sales staff; accommodation is arranged according to the boss’s wishes.

7. Senior employees like to pull rank. As long as you know how to suck up and manage upward, you can get along smoothly even without professional skills.

8. The company has absolutely no systems or procedures, and salaries are below market rates.

9. The salary structure is terrible. The base salary is very low, and they pile on a bunch of bonuses and “overtime pay” solely to evade taxes and avoid paying reasonable overtime compensation.

10. The weekly meetings are a waste of time, discussing meaningless matters. They are meetings where taking notes is completely unnecessary. (You listen to management share stories and flaunt their wealth while claiming to be very low-key.)

11. They like putting employees in unsuitable roles. For example, marketing has to do sales work; they do not want to spend money on marketing, yet they pressure marketing to generate revenue. They order all employees to take inventory or ship goods in the warehouse, work as department-store sales assistants to support anniversary promotions, or have marketing staff accompany sales representatives to visit stores and make sales pitches?

12. There is very little room to implement any proposals, and no budget is provided, so it is impossible to carry out any marketing projects. They do no marketing or publicity at all, yet expect employees to produce sales results!

13. There are no true professionals in management, only a bunch of people who make grand promises, talk empty talk, seek credit, steal credit, and love taking credit for others’ work.

14. One person may have to manage many brands, making it impossible to devote themselves fully to any one of them.

15. Every month, employees have to take turns serving as the duty person, doing the work a cleaning lady should do. (If you do it poorly, you will be scolded and have to serve as the duty person again.)

16. People in management all have friendly relationships with the boss, so they do not have to work. They especially love taking credit, arriving late, and leaving early.

17. The company has marketing and public relations, but I have never seen any new or key products featured in the media—not even a press release.

18. Colleagues do not respect or help one another, and the hierarchy is extremely rigid.

19. You may not leave your seat without permission. You may only go to the restroom, and if you go downstairs to smoke too frequently, you will be warned.

20. You must look extremely focused while at work. If you sit there blankly, someone will report that you are not taking your work seriously.

21. The general manager often says, “Don’t let everything be my idea, otherwise why would we need you?” But when we propose ideas, he makes us follow his ideas instead. It is extremely contradictory.

22. The sound of typing on the computer keyboard must not be too loud. If it disturbs colleagues, you will be warned.

23. The company does not provide toilet paper or cleaning supplies. When the weather is hot, you need permission from the old guard before you can turn on the air conditioning.

24. The old guard can chat and call one another on the internal lines, but when anyone else talks, it is considered a disruption to work order.

25. You have to curry favor with the old guard or with people in management at the appropriate times.

26. The old guard abuses their authority by relying on their association with the powerful. Because they control power, everyone still has to speak meekly to them and swallow their anger, even when they are overbearing, unreasonable, and empty-headed.

27. Senior managers in management appear to stand on the same side as you, but then go to the boss to gossip and make disparaging comments.

In conclusion, this place is suitable for recent graduates with no work experience who want to gain experience and see what the workplace is really like. (This place is not suitable for people who have ideals about marketing.)

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Cons

1. The company environment is very bad and extremely noisy. Besides employees and the boss liking to shout, machines such as the printer are unbearably loud as well.

2. Employees are not allowed to wear headphones, but they are allowed to play broadcasts.

3. There are absolutely no benefits, and typhoon days are unpaid.

4. The marketing director does absolutely no work—basically, they neither manage nor do anything, and they also like to gossip about people behind their backs.

5. There is only one microwave shared by the entire company, so you have to wait ages just to eat.

6. Management is entirely based on personal whims. If the general manager does not like you, they will do everything possible to make things difficult for you and cause you trouble.

7. The general manager is narrow-minded, lives in their own world, and is self-righteous. They also speak very unpleasantly.

8. Everything is done on paper, and no one has a habit of sending emails. Even getting a company email account takes a very long time.

9. Senior employees like to throw their weight around because of their seniority.

10. Weekly meetings are a waste of time, consisting of meaningless matters. They are meetings where taking notes is completely unnecessary.

11. They like to put employees in unsuitable positions. For example: asking all employees to go to the warehouse to take inventory or handle shipping; asking them to work as department-store sales staff to support an anniversary sale; or asking marketing staff to go with sales representatives to visit stores and make sales pitches?

12. There is very little room to make an impact, and no budget is provided, so it is impossible to carry out any marketing projects.

13. There are no marketing professionals at all, and the boss is not one either.

14. One person may be required to manage many brands, making it impossible to focus on any one of them.

15. You have to serve as the person on duty.

16. The general manager has extreme distrust of employees and spends all day suspecting this and that.

Conclusion: It has all the shortcomings of a Taiwanese-owned company and a family business. Think twice before going!!

You can leave work on time because there is no overtime pay anyway.

1. An extremely conservative family business, where the boss’s management philosophy is to do everything personally. But one person is fundamentally incapable of managing dozens of brands, so the efficiency is predictably terrible.

2. The Dragon Boat Festival bonus is NT$500—so little it’s laughable.

3. Typhoon days off are unpaid, which effectively means your pay is deducted; it also puts the NT$1,000 perfect-attendance bonus at risk.

4. Mid-level managers are extremely good at making empty promises. During interviews, they lure people in by claiming there are performance bonuses, but later you find out they are team bonuses, and if even one team fails to meet its target, it is impossible to receive them.

5. A weekly meeting can go off on endless tangents and is extremely inefficient. Every week, you have to waste an entire afternoon listening to the boss talk about his past glories, as well as whatever superficial thing he learned from an app that he considers a great discovery on the level of Columbus.

6. There are no management guidelines or strategies whatsoever. The “do it the hard way” approach is the truth of a typical Taiwanese family business.

7. The company is heavily governed by personal relationships. If the boss takes a dislike to you, you are immediately blacklisted, for highly subjective reasons. For example, he might see that you are too friendly with a colleague he dislikes.

8. The boss likes to take afternoon naps but also wants to control everything. The result is that anything requiring his decision has to be put on hold.

9. Employees are deeply distrusted, because no matter how well you perform, you can never be closer to him than family members by blood.

10. Employees fall into two categories: ambitious types who love currying favor with the boss, and retirement-minded types with a civil-servant mentality. The ambitious types will stop at nothing to take credit.

You can leave work on time because there is no overtime pay anyway

1. An extremely conservative family business, where the boss’s management philosophy is to do everything personally. But one person simply cannot manage dozens of brands, so the efficiency is predictably terrible.

2. A Dragon Boat Festival bonus of NT$500—so little it’s laughable.

3. Typhoon days off are unpaid, which effectively means your pay is docked, and the NT$1,000 perfect-attendance bonus is tied to it.

4. Mid-level managers are extremely good at making grand promises. During interviews, they lure people in by claiming there are performance bonuses, but later you discover they are group bonuses; if even one group fails to meet its target, it is impossible to receive the bonus.

5. A weekly meeting can ramble from one unrelated topic to another and is extremely inefficient. Every week, you have to waste an entire afternoon listening to the boss talk about his past achievements, as well as whatever superficial thing he has learned from an app—which he considers a great discovery on the scale of Columbus.

6. There are no management guidelines or strategies whatsoever. The “learn by doing it the hard way” approach is the truth of Taiwanese family businesses.

7. It is heavily governed by personal preference. If the boss takes a dislike to you, you are immediately blacklisted. The reasons are extremely subjective—for example, he might see that you are very close to a colleague he dislikes.

8. The boss likes taking naps but also wants to control every detail. The result is that anything requiring his decision can only be left pending.

9. The company has extreme distrust of its employees, because no matter how well you perform, you can never be as trusted as family members by blood.

10. Employees are divided into the ambitious type, who love currying favor with the boss, and the retirement-minded type, who have a civil-servant mentality. The ambitious type will use any means necessary to take credit.

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1. The benefits are terrible. Typhoon days are unpaid, there is no group insurance, and you only get three days of leave after completing six months. They only follow the Labor Standards Act. Sick leave results in a NT$1,000 deduction from the perfect-attendance bonus, and being late also results in a NT$1,000 deduction from the perfect-attendance bonus.

2. The general manager is impractical and has wild ideas. When performance is poor, marketing is told to place products in stores. In addition to being responsible for monitoring the sales team’s performance (which should be the sales manager’s responsibility), marketing also has to pack goods in the warehouse and visit clients. Marketing handles all kinds of miscellaneous tasks, as well as processing returns and repairing products.

3. The chief marketing officer is not responsible for performance and has no practical channel experience. They just tell subordinates to do everything. The CMO has no ideas and an empty head, and does not need to care about performance at all.

4. The entire company uses paper-based processes, and the office is noisy, with people shouting.

5. Employees have to take turns serving as the duty person and help send faxes and turn off the printer.

6. The company has no systems whatsoever.

7. In this family business, they do not let you know anything. When they tell you to do something, you just do it.

8. Suitable for very obedient, compliant, inexperienced people.

9. They will cut your salary.