紳堡企業股份有限公司

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A family-owned business. The boss and his wife have very bad tempers and at least two furious scoldings are guaranteed every week, making the emotional labor extremely demanding. Being fined for arriving late is one thing, but you also get yelled at for leaving on time. They also require employees not to take Mondays off. If you make a mistake, you’ll be berated mercilessly. If you care about the workplace atmosphere, don’t come—you’ll be miserable.

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As soon as I entered the interview, I was first asked to fill out a personnel application form. In addition to my name, it asked for my date of birth, blood type, place of origin, address (???), special illnesses (listed in detail for you to check off—who would check any of these?), mental illnesses, marital status, whether I was pregnant, as well as my parents’ names, ages, occupations, positions, and salaries (how much my parents earn is none of your damn business).

Below that were four or five statements. I’ll list the ones I remember:

1. If you do not complete the three-month probationary period and the company wants to lay you off, it does not have to pay severance (illegal—they still have to pay it).

2. The 6% labor pension contribution is included in the salary and is not paid separately.

3. If you take personal leave, the deduction is calculated by dividing the amount by the actual number of days worked.

(I’m not sure whether this is illegal, so please enlighten me. But I remember that regular days off are paid, so using the actual number of days worked as the divisor would result in a larger deduction.)

4. Personal leave must always be reported to the supervisor in advance; same-day leave requests are not accepted. (This point is acceptable.)

5. For two years after leaving the company, you may not work in the same industry (the aquarium industry). I nearly died laughing ^_^

I don’t remember the rest. Anyway, as soon as I read the clauses below, I felt they were illegal and problematic. The actual interview also began with a detailed background investigation. When I left the section about my parents blank, the interviewer still kept pressing me for answers. Where is your hometown? Why are you living somewhere else instead of your hometown now? How many siblings do you have? What do they do?

Next, they began introducing the company’s business, but went through it very quickly.

Only at the end did they ask what skills I had and what compensation I expected. They also did not introduce the company’s benefits or salary system. END.

At a glance, the company seemed to have only three people: an arrogant female supervisor, who was also the person interviewing me, and two other women—that was it. I had long heard that poorly run small companies like to pry into applicants’ private family backgrounds. At the end, they also said that this job required signing a guarantee, including a joint guarantor, and asked whether I had someone who could sign. I asked directly: “What exactly would they be guaranteeing?” At that point, the female supervisor (who I suspect was also the person in charge of the company) suddenly raised her voice slightly and said, “Just some guarantees related to the job~ We’ll have it in writing~” without ever clearly stating what was to be guaranteed.

Finally, they said, “Thank you for coming to the interview. We’ll notify you if there are any results.” Personally, I think that for a poorly run small company with no proper systems, capable people should look for another job instead. There is really no need to waste your life here. Most importantly, the interview experience felt extremely unpleasant: the other person kept interrupting me before I could finish speaking, which made me feel that they did not respect the interviewee.