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Read the community guidelines1. Taking leave is easy
2. The supervisor has high EQ
1. The total annual bonus is less than one month's salary
2. Unequal distribution of work and rest
1. Easy to take time off
2. The company provides indoor parking spaces
3. The new factory environment is good and not stuffy or hot
4. There are no tests, either during the interview or after joining the company
1. The systems are incomplete
2. There is no training process at all
3. In this family business, the boss has the final say; whenever problems arise afterward, they are all pushed back onto frontline staff
4. The total of the year-end bonus and quarterly bonuses for the entire year is less than one month of base salary; the year-end bonus is only a few thousand dollars
5. After the veteran employees in each department retire, there may be no one to take over
6. New hires rarely stay for more than two years
1. Always arrive and leave on time; never work overtime
2. The company has parking spaces
3. Company vehicles are provided for business trips
4. Colleagues are easy to get along with
5. There are often snacks to eat
6. Two days off per week; public holidays are days off
7. The company has a cafeteria
8. Suitable for coasting toward retirement—you get paid just for sitting there
9. Pleasant environment
10. Easy to take leave
1. The position I applied for turned out to be like doing odd jobs: touching a little of this and a little of that. Even though the work belongs to different departments, its nature is actually quite similar.
2. New employee training = none. There is absolutely no SOP. If colleagues are busy, you have to sit around doing nothing all day (when I was new, I had roughly a week with nothing to do at my desk). You have to figure everything out and do everything yourself.
3. The supervisor is too young; they change things whenever they think of something, so everything is perpetually being renewed.
4. The colleagues are nice, but they are all half-hearted about teaching. They will teach you a little only when the supervisor tells them to; at other times, you just do odd jobs for your colleagues.
5. The colleagues in the warehouse department use their seniority to throw their weight around. They have a bad attitude when you help them with things, refuse to admit when they give you the wrong items, and keep changing the requirements every time they explain something, so the work never seems to end.
6. On make-up workdays announced by the government, employees are forced to take unpaid leave (you have to submit personal leave yourself).
7. You cannot learn anything; you only use basic Excel and simple photo-taking and image-editing skills.
8. One of the heavier security guards has a very bad attitude. When you borrow keys for a business trip, he treats you as if you owe him money.
9. HR only explains the leave rules halfway and criticizes you after the fact if you do not follow something.
10. The office layout is strange; basically, the colleagues nearby know what everyone is doing.
11. There are no opportunities for promotion.
Take leave whenever you want; managers approve it all, and no proof is needed for sick leave.
Everyone turns a blind eye to slacking off.
The interview is relaxed, just like having a chat.
Those who can endure it can work there until retirement without a problem.
The old-timers are difficult to deal with.
The manager lacks management experience.
As a result, the department has no SOPs.
Traditional manufacturing family businesses simply have no systems.