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Read the community guidelines1. Convenient location near central Taipei, close to an MRT station
For commuters, this can save a lot of time—the company building is right next to the MRT station exit.
2. Easy to take leave
3. The boss himself does not put much effort into matters concerning his own company, so it is easy for all of us to slack off.
1. Absolutely no benefits
The only beverage benefit is a NT$50–70 subsidy once a week. There is no travel allowance or company trip. The three holiday bonuses are NT$1,200, the back-to-work red envelope is NT$200, and the birthday bonus is NT$1,000 (the three holiday bonuses used to be NT$600 and the birthday bonus NT$500; perhaps too few employees were left, so they raised them to try to retain people). Employees also have to do the year-end deep cleaning themselves.
Although the company holds public-interest health lectures and organizes group meals, if an employee’s birthday happens to fall in that month, the boss takes the opportunity to use up the group-meal allowance to save money. For example, when the October birthday celebration was held at Second Floor Café for brunch, the boss combined it with the meal opportunity from the September lecture. Even when the birthday employee objected, it made no difference.
2. Absolutely no room for salary increases
During interviews, the boss says, “Your salary will be adjusted after three months or six months.” Many former colleagues said that even after working there for a year, they never received a raise—it is simply a lie! And even when a raise is possible, the salary bracket for labor and health insurance is not adjusted, so the raise is only a tiny amount (NT$500; this amount was provided by a former editor).
There is only a five-minute grace period for being late. If you exceed it, NT$1,000 is deducted from the perfect-attendance bonus. Taking sick leave also results in a deduction from the perfect-attendance bonus. Absolutely terrible!
3. The boss and supervisors lack professionalism, and their decisions frequently change from one moment to the next
Although this is a marketing company, it has no marketing expertise whatsoever; the employees themselves prop it up with their own professional skills. The boss also likes to interfere excessively in employees’ work, which affects the quality of their professional output. Some of the company’s clients are B2B, but the boss’s marketing concepts are limited to B2C, and he orders the digital marketing staff to apply his B2C concepts (arguing with him is completely pointless!).
An essential employee skill is “mind reading,” because the boss only says half of what he means, or gives instructions with no beginning or end, leaving employees to guess for themselves. The boss also frequently contradicts his own words—sometimes contradicting what he said only a second earlier—and keeps changing his instructions. This makes it extremely difficult for everyone in the company to work and increases the cost of doing the work, yet he shifts the blame for the problem onto us. If we argue back and he reacts angrily, that means we were right.
The boss does not distinguish between public and private matters. We have to create our own work accounts because the company does not provide them, and even the boss’s email account is his personal one. When creating Facebook pages and YouTube channels for clients, we also have to use his personal email account.
4. The boss has absolutely no respect for employees’ professional expertise
This boss is extremely self-important and frequently interferes randomly with employees’ work. In my view, it has reached the level of “trampling on other people’s expertise”! He is also extremely concerned about the “results employees bring in” and whether labor costs are being wasted.
〔Project Management〕
Although communicating with clients is supposed to be the PM’s responsibility, the boss handles it personally instead. This causes information errors in communication between the PM and clients, wasting time revising the work. Project progress has to be checked repeatedly because, due to the boss’s interference, projects do not follow the contracts at all. He even scolds the PM for not being proactive and assigns some of the PM’s work—compiling project progress and developing project topics—to digital marketing.
The editor-in-chief changes the press releases handled by the PM, focusing on unimportant details (to put it bluntly, she has a compulsion about wording), and she often replies to messages very late.
〔Video Editing〕
This is the position the boss most loves to interfere with and give unsolicited directions to. Several editors before this could not stand him and were driven away, or were dismissed because he complained that they had not edited videos in the style he wanted. The previous editor who was let go was dismissed because the boss disliked the person’s editing style and demanded that they revise it according to his wishes—not the client’s. Before leaving, the editor told me that the client was very satisfied with the video, but because the boss was dissatisfied, it had to be adjusted again.
During an interview, a former editor asked the boss how many editors the company had. He said there would be three, including that person, but in fact there was only one editor. After joining, the person learned that they alone handled all editing work. After a while, they discovered that the boss had no professional filming knowledge whatsoever and did not even know what color temperature was. Because the editor had sufficient practical experience, clients approved the work, leaving the boss unable to do much. Before closing a project, the boss would ask to review the video. Occasionally, he would nitpick and demand changes and a re-edit, only to have the client insist that it be changed back. After that, the boss became less willing to direct or interfere with the editor.
〔Digital Marketing〕
The boss also regularly interferes with the work, such as advertising copy and SEO content. Although he lacks marketing expertise, he insists that marketing staff follow his instructions. When they give professional advice, he says it is too technical for him to absorb (whether he can absorb it is your problem!). Whenever marketing staff propose the correct approach and challenge his ideas, he becomes angry but dares not say anything because he cannot find a basis on which to argue. In the end, he uses his position as boss to force them to follow his method, saying things like, “Then you be the boss!”—an exaggerated and childish emotional outburst intended to emotionally manipulate employees (but it ultimately failed). Marketing staff eventually proved that their approach was correct, so the boss became even less willing to speak with them or try to interfere in their work.
He also likes to dump unrelated tasks on marketing staff, such as consolidating PM project information, planning website architecture, and helping write press-release interview outlines. None of these duties were mentioned in the 104 job description or during the interview. Fortunately, the marketing employee was clever enough to deliberately act clueless, so the workload did not increase.
〔Design〕
The boss often asks designers to handle “tasks outside their job duties,” such as promotional design for a religious foundation or a birthday graphic for a doctor (neither of these had anything to do with health-education content or clinic promotion).
The boss has always believed that design work is extremely easy and can be completed without spending much time. Previously, a doctor asked marketing to plan a large set of social-media infographics—eight images in total. After marketing quickly prepared the materials and commissioned design to produce the graphics, the designer was also rushing to complete graphics for other clients, so it took five days to finish. At a meeting, the boss publicly accused the designer of wasting time and labor costs. He also said the company should not make so many images for a client and lose money. However, the boss himself had failed to agree with the client in the contract that only two images would be included and that additional images required extra payment. He shifted all the blame onto the designer instead of reviewing his own cost control. That designer resigned at the end of the same day.
The same thing happens with the current designer. The boss sends messages to marketing after working hours; marketing handles them first thing the next morning and gives them to design. The boss does not even wait and then suddenly asks the next day whether the doctor’s graphics are finished. This has become routine…^_^
In addition, the editor-in-chief often asks design to revise news images, usually changing completely insignificant details (such as removing a money tree from a clinic image). She never explains all the requirements at once when revisions are needed (the boss is the same way; neither of them ever explains tasks clearly in one go). She also takes several hours to reply when the designer asks questions and loves asking for image revisions right before the end of the workday, delaying the designer’s departure.
〔Finance and Accounting〕
There have been two accountants in succession. The first was dismissed for workplace bullying, but was also a pitiful person who privately worked extremely hard for the boss. Many miscellaneous company tasks fell to this position. Rather than a finance and accounting role, it was more like being the boss’s secretary (to put it kindly). Besides managing finance and accounting, the role included personnel matters and, even more often, handling the boss’s insignificant personal affairs; company matters came second. Since the first accountant had been a long-term employee with 13 years of service, the boss frequently emotionally manipulated her. On one occasion, she privately complained to everyone that the boss had jokingly told her to go clean his house.
The second accountant handled the same miscellaneous tasks for the boss, but dealt with fewer personal matters. The boss often ordered him to complete tasks within a short time and would add more work at the last minute.
In summary, this is how the boss treats employees in every position in the company. And he is becoming increasingly outrageous. Apart from accounting, he tells people in every other role—including editing and design—to “just use ChatGPT” while working. He has essentially begun treating ChatGPT as a magic tool. Now everyone in the company figures that since the boss himself is making such a mess of things, they can all use ChatGPT to muddle through until quitting time—after all, the boss cannot tell that anything is wrong.
5. The boss likes to sexually harass female employees physically and verbally
First of all, I dare to say this here because I have evidence proving that he has engaged in sexual harassment, and this is a matter of public interest. It can help people reviewing the company for interviews evaluate whether they should accept a job there.
The boss casually touches or pats employees on the shoulder. Since the office is almost entirely female, employees in accounting, marketing, PM, editing, and sales have all been harassed by him. Sales staff have more contact with him and, according to other former colleagues, have suffered more harassment QQ. As far as I know, some newer employees are less likely to be harassed, but even some new colleagues have been victims in private (one person told me that the boss touched their shoulder). I once saw a former designer having both of his hands placed on her shoulders while she was eating. I checked on her afterward, but unfortunately could not record evidence at the time.
His usual method of sexual harassment is to deliberately walk over to or stand beside your workstation, look for an opportunity to pat or touch your shoulder, and touch you while talking (yes, exactly the stereotypical method of harassing women shown online or in public-service videos).
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★The following is a statement provided by one victim:
I have personally experienced having my shoulder touched and verbal sexual harassment. The shoulder touching was the most outrageous. The first time, the boss was talking to me and, while speaking, reached out and patted my right shoulder. When I moved away, he switched to patting my left shoulder.
The second time (date: 2025/2/20), the boss suddenly and silently came up beside my workstation and touched a spot slightly below my shoulder—specifically, near the “shoulder blade.” After I told the coworker next to me about it at noon, I decided to message the boss and tell him that his behavior was inappropriate. He later publicly apologized to me in a meeting (he apologized voluntarily).
I originally thought that since he had swallowed his pride and apologized, I would not make too much of it. But I was wrong—you really cannot tolerate a repeat offender! ^_^
At 6:01 p.m. on 2025/11/11, after working hours, he suddenly looked at me and said, “You look cute in shorts.” This unsolicited verbal sexual harassment was disgusting. I immediately messaged him after leaving the company to tell him that his behavior was inappropriate. Some people may read this and think that what he said was not so bad, but he could have said, “Your outfit is cute,” instead of, “You look cute in shorts.” To use another example: if you went to meet a business client and directly complimented a female client by saying, “You look beautiful in that short skirt,” would everyone consider that appropriate and proper? ^_^
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I am quite grateful to this brave former employee for speaking out. Oh, and men can also be sexually harassed. The editor who was previously dismissed by the boss privately told me that the boss had also touched his shoulder several times; even when he moved away, the boss continued touching him.
6. The boss may have a “narcissistic personality”
To summarize the situations encountered at this company, several colleagues and I speculate that the boss may have a narcissistic personality. Based on what we experienced, he displays all of the following characteristics of a “narcissistic personality”:
● Exaggerated self-importance: Believes he is the center of the organization and demands special treatment.
● Takes sole credit and shifts blame: Success is his, while failure is someone else’s fault.
● Craves admiration and praise: Has an extreme need for flattery, attention, and praise from others.
● Lacks empathy: Does not care about employees’ needs, feelings, or problems.
● Cares only about personal interests: All behavior is aimed at maintaining and enhancing his own status.
● Extremely sensitive and unable to accept criticism: Cannot tolerate opinions that differ from his own or questions directed at him.
● Likes to manipulate others: May control subordinates by alternating between praise and belittlement.
● Tends to promote flatterers: Suppresses professionals and favors people whose loyalty exceeds their ability.
When the boss is in a bad mood, he takes it out on employees—not by looking for actual work mistakes, but by nitpicking over trivial matters. For example, company rules state that breakfast must be bought and eaten before 9:30. One day, when the boss was in a bad mood, he said to an employee eating breakfast, “It’s already this late and you’re still eating breakfast!” But the employee was eating at 9:15, within the time range he had announced in the group chat. The employee completely ignored what the boss said, and the boss silently walked into the office.
This also suggests that he tests employees’ obedience. In addition, as mentioned earlier, the boss likes to call employees into his office for discussions (other interviewees and former employees have also pointed this out). Each time, the boss sends a message saying, “Come here for a moment,” believing employees should come whenever summoned. He may even call employees into the office during lunch breaks or after work, taking up their rest and commuting time. Even after an employee clearly refuses, he continues sending messages to pressure and emotionally manipulate them.
7. The boss’s personal hygiene habits are terrible
I originally did not want to mention this, but some employees tried telling him and it was useless, so I am making it public here!
He has bad breath and smells of cigarettes and sweat. Employees privately reminded him out of goodwill (giving him a chance to save face), but he did not improve. At one point, an employee who was unwell wore a mask every day. When the boss called the employee into his office for a discussion, perhaps out of insecurity, he pressured the person to take off the mask.
In addition, the boss does not cover his mouth when sneezing or coughing, let alone wear a mask. For a while, everyone caught colds, and we all knew who had infected us.
8. The office equipment is very old, and nothing is upgraded even after complaints
The computers’ graphics cards are extremely outdated—older than the graphics card in the laptop I used at university. The design computer frequently crashes when running Illustrator, and on other computers, Google pages occasionally crash. The editing computer is barely the best one, but it is still terrible.
The office chairs should all be replaced. Besides the cushions having lost their elasticity, the gas lifts are broken, so we cannot adjust them to a comfortable sitting position. Everyone leaves work with aching backs and sore bodies.
We have to carry the water for the water dispenser ourselves. The company could clearly switch to a floor-standing dispenser, but the former accountant wanted to save money, so everyone has to carry the water. I also think they order very cheap water because it tastes much worse than the bottled water at my previous company.
The air conditioner should be replaced. The air it blows is not cold. The filters are cleaned regularly and the refrigerant is checked, so everything is functioning normally; the model is simply too old.
Also, the boss worships the Tudigong’s household guardian in the office. He chooses lunchtime for the ceremony, filling the office with incense smoke. Quite a few colleagues feel uncomfortable, and after they complained, he told them to eat outside and return afterward. But some colleagues bring their own lunch…
Summary:
This company is experiencing the “Dead Sea effect.” I highly recommend that “men without ability who put on an act come in to coast and slack off.” The boss cannot detect it anyway, and when professionals join, he neither respects nor adopts their suggestions. I recommend men because they are less likely to be harassed by him.
At work, the boss likes to add tasks outside employees’ job duties to their workload. So you have to learn to pretend to be busy and clueless; that is the only way to make things easier for yourself. Adopt the attitude of “do as much as you are paid to do, and pass off any work you can.” The boss spends working hours watching stocks, so there is really no need to take this job too seriously.
★All of the statements above are a summary of the horror stories experienced by former employees of the company! I hope this helps everyone~
Only a 3-minute walk from Exit 7 of Guting MRT Station to the company
There are drinks every week, as well as birthday parties and birthday bonuses
About 80% of what the boss and editor-in-chief do is probably shown in this video
https://youtu.be/DLsi8OVMlFg?feature=shared&t=105
If you want to experience what the video talks about, feel free to come and try it
Although I still don't understand why I was laid off
Very close to the MRT station
A shitty job. It feels like a small company where you’ll waste your youth and develop an inflated ego. The interview gave the impression that you’d have to do everything. Anyone considering going is advised to think twice.
The company is conveniently located for transportation
Employees get free drinks
1. The boss loves to make grand promises, but in reality has very little ability to execute and often says things that leave people speechless
2. The boss often tells newcomers that he is very generous, but is actually extremely stingy
3. The boss does not listen during meetings; just 10 minutes after the meeting ends, he immediately asks you the same questions
4. The management system is seriously problematic; for most decisions, you have to listen to the editor-in-chief
5. The editor-in-chief’s mood is unpredictable and he often targets employees or plays petty tricks
6. The editor-in-chief does not like to work and dumps all kinds of messes on subordinates to handle
7. The editor-in-chief and the boss are both idiots; they often ask you to come into the office to sit with them while they open files and look for links