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Read the community guidelinesSmall company, integrated marketing, feels understaffed, company located in Xinyi District
The HR person’s mental state is concerning. How can one sentence have logic that doesn’t connect with the next?? Did they eat the “nine-turn large intestine”??
They say employees will clock in and out on time, but also say the industry moves at a very fast pace during peak season, so overtime is still required 🙄 Or they say overtime is paid and not encouraged, but maybe there’s a limit on overtime hours, and any excess means working unpaid.
The salary is also concerning. It sounds like it’s base salary + performance bonus.
Will there also be an attendance bonus??
And really, who already has experience but would still want to work as an assistant?
They’re painting a rosy picture, telling me that so-and-so became a permanent employee after just one month. Who knows whether it really means one month? And is this salary for real? I’m here to make money, not to do charity work. A textbook case of answering B when asked A.
The company is very clean, the rent is very expensive, and it is very upscale.
1. The male boss has a very short temper and is rude. He is very good at berating people, but the company’s management and emotional-management abilities are poor.
2. The female boss appears easygoing on the surface but actually has a princess complex. She needs people to flatter her and keep her happy. Everyone’s mood rises and falls with hers—more thrilling than the stock market. She often keeps changing decisions, leaving people at a loss.
3. There is often more reporting than actual work, from painstakingly detailed work logs to weekly, monthly, and supervisor reports. When there is nothing else to do, there may even be a monthly presentation competition to entertain the boss. Yet even with all those reports, the boss may not necessarily read them.
4. Turnover is extremely high. Someone leaves every month, and there is also an endless supply of unsuspecting people with labor to spare being lured in.
5. Clients are allowed to demand whatever they want. Externally, the boss acts like a living bodhisattva; internally, she is a demoness. Everyone is exhausted, only to be asked in the end why no one told her.
6. The snacks and gifts given to employees are often near their expiration dates, and everyone is still expected to be deeply grateful.
7. Overtime pay is capped. If you work too long, you have to take compensatory leave, although when you are busy, you may not even manage to take it.
8. Marketing staff are perpetually overwhelmed. The supervisor refuses to take responsibility yet is very good at pretending to be busy. If you disobey and anger the boss, you will be disparaged as worthless; even after you resign, you may still be brought up as a cautionary tale and publicly vilified.
9. Designers are criticized for not making money no matter how busy they are. Their labor costs are often used against them, while they are expected to shoulder the workload from the company’s projects across northern, central, and southern Taiwan.
10. There are countless ways to become emotionally exhausted; if you are interested, you can jump into the pit and experience it for yourself.