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Read the community guidelinesThere is overtime pay, a meal allowance, labor and health insurance, etc. Overseas trips are also provided (after completing the three-month probationary period). You are allowed to be late by half an hour once a month without a deduction; after half an hour, $5 is deducted for every minute.
During busy months, they will not fire you, but when things are not busy, they may feel that they do not need you and fire people immediately. It feels like you are discarded once they have used you. I have seen and heard of many people being fired for this reason. They will tell you to do things according to their ideas, and the office atmosphere is very tense. Basically, you cannot chat; if you do, you will be questioned. There are many miscellaneous tasks, and sometimes you may wonder whether you applied for the wrong position. At the beginning of the interview, they said that no one would alter the designs you created, but in reality, when things are busy, the boss’s wife will ask someone else to modify your work. The overtime pay is the same as mentioned above: you must work more than half an hour past the end of your shift for it to count as overtime.
Graphic design is divided into positions with and without supervisors.
Positions without a supervisor have higher pay and greater freedom. There is also less miscellaneous work, although all designs still have to be reviewed by the boss/boss’s wife.
There is a meal allowance for working through mealtimes.
There are overseas company trips.
It is easy to take leave at short notice; a phone call is enough for a colleague to pass on the message.
Design positions with a supervisor are basically business assistant roles.
You have to prepare designs as well as perform secretarial work.
Your ideas are easily interfered with.
Sometimes they even give you ugly designs and ask you to use them as references.
In reality, you are simply expected to copy them.
Everyone above the supervisor level is very conceited.
They rely on their many years of experience in the graduation album industry,
yet fail to consider that every year brings new students and new clients.
Other objective drawbacks:
Salary: Cannot exceed NT$30,000; some of the salary is paid in cash to evade taxes.
Labor and health insurance: Both are provided, but the reported salary is lower than the actual salary.
Overtime pay: A fixed hourly rate; the first half hour after the end of working hours does not count as overtime.