禾場國際有限公司

The colleagues are very nice.

The boss has a serious problem with discriminating against women. They will open customers' profiles one by one in front of employees and make judgmental comments about the customers' appearances.

They exploit employees, requiring them to be on call 24 hours a day, including holidays. The job responsibilities described in the interview are completely different from those after joining. One person is required to take on dozens of roles, yet the pay is pitifully low. They are adept at intensely exploiting your ideas during the probationary period; when the probationary period is nearly over, they tell you to leave on the spot. They will also take your ideas and claim them as their own, then tell you that you have done nothing.

Policies change from day to day, and there is a serious tendency to procrastinate. A single issue may be confirmed more than ten times, both in person and online, without receiving a response. During the process of following up, the boss will turn around and blame you for “lacking time efficiency” and for “not managing them well enough from below.”

In addition, they use surveillance cameras to listen to and monitor employees at work. During working hours, you can see the camera rotating back and forth above your head.

The only advantage: Most of the colleagues are nice, easy to get along with, and help one another.

Cons

1. The company has no policies; it is completely run according to whatever the boss happens to think of, and he may change his mind the very next second. No activity or plan is discussed or planned in advance. Employees are simply called into meetings, where the boss says whatever comes to mind. He goes back and forth without any clear objective or answer, and there is no clear plan. Meetings have no focus, he does not remember what he himself said, and he constantly contradicts what he said moments earlier. He does not write anything down and does things according to his own preferences, without carefully considering the consequences. For example, when opening up preorders for products—a confidential matter involving ordering that the boss handles himself—he opens preorders for every item before even confirming what products were actually secured. A few days later, he says that some items cannot be obtained, by which time customers have already started placing orders. In the end, employees are pushed forward to apologize to customers one by one. This has even happened after payment was collected, and customers were not refunded money but were instead given so-called store credit. Then, when the products were finally due to arrive three months later, it turned out that one item was also unavailable, while another had insufficient quantities due to overselling. A single preorder campaign resulted in three separate occasions where employees had to kneel and apologize to customers and issue refunds, while the person responsible acted as if nothing had happened. He does not plan properly and sends employees to deal with the consequences whenever something goes wrong.

2. The division of responsibilities is unclear. Every employee is expected to know how to do everything. Even if someone’s position is administrative, they are expected to know marketing, warehouse operations, and sales. One person is used as if they were ten people, and employees are expected to be on standby 24 hours a day; he seems determined to squeeze employees dry.

3. Employees still receive messages from the boss after work and on holidays. If they do not answer or reply, he becomes unhappy. He believes his questions are important and that he must know the answers immediately, regardless of the time, which is highly disrespectful to employees.

4. Gender discrimination. His words, both explicitly and implicitly, are full of discrimination against women—for example, saying that one has to be very careful when talking to women, or that women are not as capable as men. Yet the employees he hires are all women, and specifically young women. He then says that because they are still young, they lack social experience. He has even tried every possible way to dismiss female employees after they become pregnant.

5. Misrepresentation. The company name used in recruitment on job websites is Green Maze Cultural & Creative Technology Co., Ltd., but the actual employer is Hechang International Co., Ltd. The boss discriminates against all women, yet blindly idolizes a certain expert, A. He even describes Expert A as an “acupuncturist” in the course instructor introduction, although it is reportedly known that Expert A only holds a Class C beauty-care certificate.

6. Arbitrary dismissals. Whenever the boss dislikes an employee, he may dismiss them at any time. This company has been operating for nearly 20 years, yet its most senior employee has only two years of tenure. Either employees cannot stay, or they have all been dismissed by the boss. Even an employee who made a very direct suggestion to the boss was later dismissed under a pretext. All he wants are obedient robots who simply follow orders.

7. Because revenue was poor, he wanted to eliminate the part-time workers. However, the administrative supervisor and warehouse staff explained that their workloads were heavy and that they still needed part-time workers to share the burden, and they tried hard to communicate this to the boss. The boss only said, “I know,” and still went ahead and dismissed the part-time workers. One week later, he discovered that the workload really could not be handled with the remaining staff and wanted to recruit part-time workers again.

8. He only wants to use free options. Anything that costs money is avoided whenever possible. Everything is done through primitive, makeshift methods, such as using shared spreadsheets in free online office software. You cannot see any efficiency brought by high technology in this company; everything is manual, manual, manual!!

9. He does not trust employees. If a customer complaint is received, his first reaction is always to suspect that an employee did something to sabotage him. For example, when a customer reported that a product was like water, he suspected that an employee had put water into it! He is also extremely suspicious and distrustful of all employees, acting one way in front of people and another behind their backs.

10. All the equipment in the company is very old and outdated. Employees are expected to use the oldest, worst equipment to produce the best results, while he uses the best equipment himself. He wants the horse to run well but does not want to feed it. He then claims that he treats employees very well. There is nothing for Labor Day or the Dragon Boat Festival; he only says that he is good to employees, without taking any substantive action.

11. In short, the biggest problem with this company is the boss!

My colleagues are very NICE

1. The actual job duties differ drastically from those described in the job posting, with less than 10% similarity. Although they claimed to be offering a lecturer contract, they did not provide the guaranteed teaching hours or protections that should have been included under the contract. Every day in the office was spent doing miscellaneous tasks. As a full-time lecturer, I was not allowed to prepare lessons during working hours. The company required lecturers to observe classes using their own time without pay. I have never seen a company's training require employees to have their wages deducted.

When concerns about the job duties were raised with the supervisor, they were always brushed off with jokes, as if we were just children arguing. They completely ignored us and did not respond, no matter how many times we raised the issue.

The supervisor and boss always had the same response: criticizing me for not being good enough, saying I was incapable in one area or another. They said that because my performance was poor, I could not be scheduled to teach, but they could not provide concrete evidence such as performance targets or achievement rates. When asked to provide evidence and review the performance results, they began pretending not to hear.

2. Company policies changed constantly. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the company had no policies at all; every decision was made entirely according to the boss's preferences.

Something decided in the morning could be changed in the afternoon—or no, it could change immediately.

The boss would delay making decisions and then blame employees for being inefficient, even saying to employees: “You can waste your own time, but you cannot waste mine.”

3. Part-time teachers were treated with extreme disrespect: one way in public and another behind their backs. In front of the part-time teachers, the boss pretended to be very kind to them and claimed that the teachers' feedback was intended to help the company grow and improve. Behind their backs, however, the boss called the teachers ungrateful and said things like: “Only this place would hire inexperienced teachers like you. You don't even know how to be grateful, yet you still dare to make so many demands. If this continues, we'll replace all of you.”

4. The company had a flat organizational structure, so one person had to do the work of several people. The boss also treated everyone as personal secretaries. Whenever the boss thought of a task, they would loudly call out to employees outside the office. Employees were expected to handle finance, accounting, general affairs, and HR all at once—more powerful than Jay Chou's Superman Who Can't Fly!!

5. When employees resigned, the boss never reflected on the company's situation or on how employees had been treated. Instead, the boss simply assumed that everything was the employees' fault: their work efficiency was poor, it was a personality problem, or they had been negatively influenced by other former employees. The boss genuinely believed that they had never wronged any employee and were the kindest and most considerate boss.

However, this supposedly wonderful boss most liked to make employees leave by telling them to quit on the same day. The legally required notice period was completely disregarded. Instead, employees were told to work until that day and not come back the next day—effectively being kicked out immediately.

6. As an education and learning company, after collecting students' fees, the company did not focus on how to educate students properly. The teaching materials were full of errors, and even after students reported the problems countless times, nothing was changed. The company only thought about how to extract more money from students, encouraging them to buy more essential oils and pressuring teachers to sell products. If sales performance was poor, it meant that you were teaching poorly, were not a good teacher, and that students did not like you. The company would then indirectly reduce your teaching hours. Everything was entirely sales-oriented, with no respect for teachers' expertise. If that was the case, the company should not have claimed to be in education while actually letting sales performance determine everything and treating teachers' hard work preparing lessons with contempt.