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Read the community guidelines1. Constant surveillance and monitoring, keeping you safe and worry-free—but with no privacy whatsoever
2. Employees pay for group meals out of their own pockets. The boss pays for their own meal too, with no distinction between ranks—very fair.
3. Bonuses are always quarterly bonuses: 3,000/6,000, very consistent figures
4. Clock-in system: one minute late means one hour’s pay deducted. Leaving work is based on personal responsibility, with no overtime pay—only a measly meal allowance for working through mealtime
5. When presenting proposals to clients, you can even connect on-site to revise the designs. The SNG connection is very immediate, exciting, and fun
6. For the three major holidays, premium gifts worth a few hundred dollars; holiday bonuses = 0. Such generosity is truly rare
7. You have to prepare a performance for the year-end party, perform in it yourself, and entertain the boss too, boosting your own creativity
8. If you upset the boss, you’ll be called into the office for a shocking lesson, allowing you to benefit tremendously
There are too many advantages to count
From Tuesday to Friday, 9:00–9:30 is flexible working time. If you clock in at 9:00, you finish work at 18:00; if you clock in at 9:30, you finish at 18:30. Usually, it is not possible to leave work on time. On Monday mornings, there is a regular meeting, so there is no flexible working time and work starts at 9:00.
Being one minute late results in a deduction equivalent to one hour. There is no overtime pay, and overtime of less than 24:00 cannot be exchanged for compensatory leave; you still have to start work on time the next day. If overtime extends past 24:00, you can take half a day of compensatory leave the next day.
If holiday overtime is less than eight hours, you cannot take compensatory leave, and of course there is no overtime pay. You must work more than eight hours to take one full day of compensatory leave.
If you go out to eat during the lunch break and exceed the allotted time, the second boss will ask you to fill out a leave request form.
There are no employee trips, but the second boss really likes sending travel promotion emails to the entire company. What is that supposed to mean?
The second boss’s responses to employees’ questions can be summarized in two points:
1. Because you are not working constantly like factory workers, compensatory leave cannot be provided on a one-to-one basis.
2. People should be more magnanimous; don’t be so calculating.
Complete audiovisual system
Money is deducted punctually in the morning; there is no overtime pay. It is recommended to arrive and leave work on time and complete responsibilities during working hours.
There’s a Seven downstairs.
A company in decline... The above is actually an understatement.
The turnover rate over the past two years, calculated together, has exceeded 100%.
The remaining employee benefits are basically gifts for the three major festivals and an average year-end bonus.
There is surveillance, audio monitoring, and possibly even screen monitoring (speculation).
The director and the people above him really do remotely monitor what you are doing and saying, which is extremely uncomfortable. For example, they may call the hotline to tell you to hurry up and work instead of eating breakfast (even though he isn’t in the office), or summon you in to berate you simply because he is unhappy (even though everyone else is eating breakfast while working, checking email, and so on).
There is no overtime pay, and the compensatory-leave system is not on a 1:1 basis. If you do not cooperate with overtime, they will put pressure on you in various ways and use you as an example to intimidate others. The company takes projects from mainland China, and the boss likes to “cooperate” with the client, so overtime is unavoidable.
You will not learn anything from the boss here. The promises made during the interview that you would be guided and given opportunities to learn are mostly just empty assurances. You have to rely on yourself and learn from your colleagues.
An office space with large desks facing each other?
Three installments of bonuses/gifts and occasional group meals?
Overall, if you can get through all the drawbacks below, you will improve.
The boss likes to rush to finish drawings right before meetings...
The boss is accustomed to reviewing all designs in 3D, then making revisions over differences of nearly realistic millimeters and lighting effects.
Without seeing the 3D, he has no impression.... (If you have modeling experience, you can understand the kind of work I’m talking about.)
There are positions for 10 designers, and employees come and go; the annual turnover rate is 80%...
Working overtime until midnight gets you half a day of compensatory leave; working until 6 a.m. gets you one day. Oh right, he calls it a “special task,” not “overtime.”
The clock-in system applies when you start work, while leaving work is based on personal responsibility—I won’t say more.
Before leaving work, you have to write an email reporting that day’s progress to everyone, so the boss is also accustomed to using peer pressure to attack people (for example, replying to the email with everyone included as recipients).
The year-end bonus is “an average” of one month’s salary. In other words, if you took leave and came to work 280 days out of 365 in the year, it would be one month × 280/12...
As for other project bonuses, if you negotiate them during the interview, you get them; if you don’t mention them, you don’t. The amount depends on the boss’s mood.