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Read the community guidelines1. The company manages each person according to KPOs and KPIs, so progress is set after discussion between the individual and the company supervisor.
2. The boss provides direction and sets goals; once they are achieved, rewards are guaranteed. I really appreciate this.
3. Work independently in the morning, and you can discuss things with the boss in the afternoon.
1. The company is small, so there are more diverse things to learn.
1. There is plenty of space to grow and make an impact.
2. The boss really respects the team's ideas.
3. The benefits are good, and the boss often treats everyone to meals.
1. The company provides too many snacks, so I've gained weight!
When it was finally time to leave
The boss's mindset and learning to respect people
1. The boss rarely comes into the office, and when he does, it is in the afternoon. Meetings continue until after working hours.
2. Meetings never have topics or agendas; everything is very improvised.
3. Even minor matters concerning the company’s operations require the boss’s approval.
Taken together, these three points make it clear that... even a small matter has to wait for the boss, who only comes in once in a long while, to make a decision. The company is extremely inefficient.
1. The boss loves to boast about having extensive marketing experience with many international companies~ Yet when it comes to the company’s own products, he pushes ahead without any market research or marketing plan. They do not fit the market at all, resulting in very poor performance.
2. Unfortunately, the boss lives in the clouds. Even though the products are already difficult to sell, he still insists on not giving distributors any price concessions. As a result, even the distribution channels refuse to sell them.
3. He does not respect people. Because his own perspective is very limited, he assumes that employees are the same.
1. Hoping to enjoy a good meal at the annual company banquet.
2. I've been working here for over a year, but my salary has never been adjusted, and I've never received a year-end bonus.
1. The company absolutely loves holding meetings, but there is never an agenda or any discussion topics. Everything is very spontaneous, and meetings always last two or three hours.
2. The company's products are developed without thorough market research or marketing plans. There is a pile of unsold books that have been sitting around for four to five years.
3. Unfortunately, the unsold products are already difficult to sell, yet the company still demands sales results every month.
4. Long-term employees are often verbally abused, but perhaps because they need to make a living, they can only endure the insults without talking back. It's truly disheartening to see.
You get the kind of manager you would expect from the boss.
A bunch of toxic relics from the last century. All they need to do is pretend to have headaches, act poor, complain about their wives, smear others, spread rumors, and shift the blame. They do nothing, know nothing when asked, and every mistake is someone else’s fault. Insecure yet arrogant and incompetent, they don’t understand the law but love spouting off recklessly. They act all day as if they’re bestowing favors on the people beneath them. Absolutely disgusting.
Doesn't treat employees like human beings
Says one thing and does another; lies as effortlessly as breathing and is exceptionally skilled at mistreating people
The resignation process is very straightforward.
1. Management’s decision-making is completely inefficient and extremely emotional. They start arguments in front of everyone at the slightest provocation, and walking into the office is the beginning of a stomachache. The highest principle for employees when handling matters is to first consider whether management will get angry—it’s practically white terror.
2. After the three-level lifting of restrictions brought an end to WFH and everyone returned to the office, people were being very cautious, but management loved to come up to people who were eating lunch to discuss work while it was #lunchtime, #notwearingamask, and #notmaintainingsocialdistance.
3. Being singled out to attend a meeting is practically equivalent to wasting half a day. I’m extremely impressed that someone can talk for three or four hours by themselves without getting to the point—perhaps they have more saliva than brainpower.
4. Management’s catchphrases: “Do you understand what I’m saying?” and “Do you know what I mean?” Then they rephrase the same thing five more times. Do they think everyone else is an idiot?
5. I don’t know whether to call it stinginess or an extreme lack of trust in employees, but taking an envelope requires registration, and even taking toilet paper requires registration, with a limit of one pack per person per month. To be honest, no one could use it all anyway; this kind of restriction only makes them look ridiculous.
6. Management often thinks they’re joking, but in reality they simply don’t care about offending others. Acting self-righteously under the banner of being “straightforward” while being completely clueless really isn’t behavior befitting someone who has been an adult member of society for a lo~ng~ time, is it?
7. Only suitable for people who are good at reading management’s mind and know how to slack off. If you have aspirations of working in publishing, please stay far, far away.
The drawbacks are just as consistent as they were in the review three years ago!
Unfortunately, the only consistently good thing may be that the boss is very generous when treating everyone to food and drinks.
1. The benefits listed in the job posting were all dreamed up—no year-end bonus, no overtime pay, no raises, no company trips. When it comes to anything involving money, just let it drift away!
2. Managers often think they are joking and treat offending others as amusing.
3. Being laid off at any time is very likely to happen.
4. From top to bottom, everyone is united in being extremely inefficient. Everything requires waiting and waiting, sometimes even repeated reminders. One command, one action: a task takes at least a week, and at most half a year or even more than a year. They become procrastination patients who appear to be really busy, while people who are punctual and efficient are naturally and constantly given new work.
5. Following from the previous point, even if you are made to work overtime because of their delays, it is still your problem! Poor performance will also be wonderfully counted against you!
6. What they call a discussion is an extended speech contest, with one person stealing the show. The people who should speak suddenly become deaf-mutes, and those who want to speak… well, just think about it.
7. Overall, the winners are those who understand the true meaning of procrastination and inefficiency. This big family, passionate about ideology, welcomes you to join!
Overseas employee trips, management with a European-American style, one or two company dinners a year, and harmonious relationships among colleagues
The workload is extremely uneven. Sometimes a large amount of work suddenly needs to be completed in the afternoon; occasionally, employees work one or two hours past the end of the workday without overtime pay. The supervisor says that colleagues need to share the burden of time, and striving for the company is naturally within the scope of their responsibilities.
The work itself is not difficult, but there are many details to pay attention to outside of the work. Each employee is given only one package of toilet paper per month, and must sign to confirm that they personally received it, so the quantity can be calculated and the supervisor can consolidate the number of packages remaining. Time spent in the bathroom is also monitored; if someone stays too long, they may occasionally be questioned.
Internal communication is conducted entirely through Skype, so employees do not deliberately log out and then log back in the next day. Later, it was learned by chance that the supervisor actually knew the content of conversations among colleagues on Skype. After checking the computer usage records, it was discovered that the computer had been restarted after work. The connection between these two facts was obvious.
A resigning employee even stated that, despite having no connection whatsoever online, they discovered that the supervisor occasionally viewed the resigning employee’s account on social media, leaving the employee confused.
The work may be easy, but interpersonal relationships are the biggest challenge of this job.
The company is all women.
The Liu-surnamed general affairs manager is two-faced. Anything she assigns must be confirmed repeatedly; she is a supervisor who could be considered lacking in responsibility.
The boss is something of a control freak. Everything has to be discussed in meetings, and because authority is not delegated, you feel tied down in everything you do.