皇鈞整合行銷有限公司

The only advantage is that the colleagues are nice.

Even 5,000 words would not be enough to explain how terrible this company is.

I. Management and personnel issues

The boss and the boss’s wife frequently argue at the company, and their emotions affect the employees. You basically start to wonder whether both of them have mental health issues.

They argue about getting divorced almost every day, and even ask employees, “Who do you think is more in the right?” This puts people in the middle and creates enormous pressure.

The workload is already impossible to finish, yet employees also have to help deal with their relationship disputes, leaving people mentally exhausted.

Although the boss and his wife often argue on the surface, when something actually goes wrong, they join forces and “play off each other” to blame the employees.

They often speak ill of former employees in the office and repeatedly emphasize how pitiful they are, repeating themselves so often that people can practically memorize it.

II. Chaotic pay and policies

Salaries are often paid late, sometimes by more than a week; payment is only made after employees repeatedly follow up.

Monthly salaries are low, and there is no overtime pay.

During the interview, they promised bonuses for the three major holidays, but in reality, employees only received gift boxes.

III. Workload and overtime culture

The boss keeps assigning work without considering how many projects employees already have on hand.

The volume of work is enormous. Even frequent overtime is not enough to finish it, so employees can only continue working on weekends.

Client revision requests are endless, and the company agrees to them without limits, making overtime the norm.

IV. Outdated work environment and equipment

The company’s equipment is old. When producing large posters, the computers often crash.

Even basic operations such as moving an image require waiting several minutes. When urgent work comes in, it is practically impossible to work smoothly.

Old files are stored on machines that are nearly obsolete. Just booting them up takes more than ten minutes, and opening files takes even longer.

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A family-owned business where the boss and the boss’s wife often argue, and their conflicts can spill over onto the employees.

In my first month, they issued my salary incorrectly, undercounting it by nearly NT$4,000. They also did not provide pay slips; they only started issuing them after the colleagues repeatedly asked and pushed for them. I don’t know whether they still do so now.

1. Excessive overtime, and everything is always urgent. The boss does not care how many projects you already have on hand.

2. Although I applied for a planning and design position, I mostly ended up doing graphic design and production work, and sometimes had to help with post-production processing.

3. They constantly dump projects on you, causing you to be unable to finish them and forcing you to stay late, but there is no overtime pay. When the workload was too heavy to handle even with overtime and I brought it up with the boss, the response was, “Then can’t you just work overtime?” I also had to take projects home to work on during holidays.

4. If you help with events on holidays, you only receive compensatory leave and no overtime pay. For one event, you may have to gather at 6:30 a.m. and stay until the event ends and cleanup is finished, at least until 9 or 10 p.m. During the event, you are expected to do everything: carry entire cases of bottled water, collect chairs, pick up trash, and so on. Even all the large garbage and grease left behind by vendors must be cleaned up by the company’s own employees instead of hiring a cleaning service.

5. The company’s hardware and equipment are not very good. Even making a slightly larger poster causes the computer to lag badly, and moving a single photo can take several minutes. When you are rushing to meet a deadline, who can wait that long? Old files are stored on an aging machine that is barely functioning; starting it up may take several dozen minutes, let alone the time it takes to open a file and find what you need.

6. Overtime usually lasts until around 9 p.m. to midnight, depending on how long you can hold out and whether the computer decides to cooperate.

1. Basically, you generally don’t need much help finding vendors, as the company has a list of partner vendors.

2. At the beginning, if you have to work overtime, the company will cover dinner.

I’m just writing down whatever comes to mind, so it’s a bit messy, but I’ll try to organize it into a list.

1. There are urgent orders every day. If you don’t work overtime to help out, you’ll be subjected to sarcastic remarks.

2. There is no overtime pay. The monthly salary is actually not very high, and payslips are often not provided.

3. There is no limit to the number of revisions requested by clients, so you often have to work overtime.

4. They decide how much work to assign you based on how far away you live.

5. The boss and his wife often have loud arguments at the company, but when something goes wrong, they join forces and gang up on someone, acting in concert.

6. They speak badly of former employees, then portray themselves as very pitiful. They repeat it constantly until you could almost recite it from memory.

7. Salaries are paid late. The longest delay I’ve experienced so far was over a week, and payment only arrived after employees repeatedly pressed them about it. They were still loudly arguing at the company when they transferred the salaries.

8. During the interview, they said there were bonuses for the three major holidays, but for the Dragon Boat Festival, I only received a rice dumpling (?

9. The accounting staff seem to be driven away quite often. When there is no accountant, the designers have to help with accounting tasks, such as making nearby deliveries and issuing invoices.