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Read the community guidelinesThe design supervisor and business manager seemed friendly and professional.
1. The boss has very traditional views. During the interview, they asked whether I had a boyfriend and whether I was getting married soon.
They would not hire people who said they were getting married soon, claiming they were afraid the person would leave shortly afterward to get married.
2. The packaging projects displayed in the interview window could give the impression that they were designed by the company, but after joining, I learned that more than half of the work merely involved assisting with printing.
3. Although the company was hiring a designer, prepress work and personnel-related tasks made up 70% of the job.
1. A job where you can accumulate a large portfolio in a short time (although the versions you personally like are often not selected)
2. Quickly build up prepress knowledge
1. The boss often raises their voice when in a bad mood
2. There are many internal company rules (for preparing designs), and they often change according to the boss’s mood. This often results in cases that the client and sales team have already agreed on being rejected because the boss insists on not approving them
3. Because the internal rules (for preparing designs) are frequently added to or changed according to the boss’s mood, you have to constantly adjust or relearn the design-preparation procedures. At the same time, you are expected to produce work both quickly and accurately, but the rules change so frequently that it becomes difficult to know which rule was the “correct” one at the time
4. Although the company has no explicit rule requiring designers to pay compensation for printing errors, there is still such a risk of having to pay when an incident occurs
5. Under the company’s internal policies, annual leave must be taken as a full day; if you take it by the hour, the leave will be deducted
6. When the government announces a typhoon day off, you still have to go to work if there is no wind or rain that day; otherwise, you will be criticized in meetings
7. At all-company meetings, everyone has to take turns reading articles about “wolf mentality” in the Chinese workplace