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Read the community guidelinesBoth owners really like dogs—one Shiba Inu and one red toy poodle—and they often bring them to the office.
If you like dogs, that’s great.
The female owner makes pour-over coffee for everyone.
1. The boss uses the surveillance cameras to check whether employees are late. If you’re two or three minutes late, they immediately message you on LINE to ask about it, while they are never on time leaving work. The average finishing time is around 8–9 p.m.; sometimes it’s as late as 11 or 12 p.m., or even after midnight.
(Of course, there’s no such thing as overtime pay—don’t even dream about it.)
2. Employees’ computers "may have" screen-monitoring software installed, and the boss "may" secretly read employees’ LINE conversations. If they discover that someone has criticized the company, they may lose their temper and retaliate.
3. I’ve already stopped caring about the frequent unpaid overtime. After all, we can understand that running a company is difficult, and everyone should meet each other halfway. But I discovered that the company sometimes tries to save money on employees’ dinner boxes through various tactics. (Do they really have to save on this too? Do they think nobody notices?)
For example, around 5:00–5:30 p.m., the extremely busy boss will—how strange—happen to come into the kitchen to cut fruit, or proactively bring out snacks to share with the employees. Then, when around 6:00 p.m. comes and they ask whether anyone wants a dinner box, on the one hand, people aren’t hungry for the moment because they’ve just eaten something; on the other hand, the company mainly recruits young people who have just graduated and lack work experience. Facing the employer, everyone is polite and doesn’t want to make an issue of it, thinking it’s okay, so they continue working overtime while hungry.
4. Although lunch is clearly supposed to be a break starting at 12:00, the workplace culture is for employees to continue working as if nothing were wrong until around 12:20 before starting their break and eating. In effect, this cuts 20 minutes from the break, and the boss never proactively steps in to say, “Hey everyone, take a break and eat!”
There’s actually more I could write, but I’ll leave it at that.
May Buddha bless those who are meant to encounter this.
Designers, keep going.