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Read the community guidelinesLooks like a stingy boss ran into lousy employees—no doubt about it; they’re both as bad as each other.
How can you retain talent if you can’t offer high salaries?
How can you get things done if you haggle over every price?
Both of you should go back and reflect on your mistakes instead of putting on this prime-time TV drama here.
The biggest improvement would be for neither of you to come here and leave this kind of worthless, irrelevant drivel.
I originally didn't intend to leave a comment, but someone came to defend the company, so I'm replying～
The advantages are just as the previous commenter shared: the boss comes into the office late, and there are company dinners about two or three times a year. The boss lets employees choose where to eat～
The company hierarchy is flat: aside from the boss, there are just employees. In other words, if you take good care of the boss, you'll be very happy at this company, you tyrant～
The salary is simply 23K. Regardless of your degree, it's 23K. A tiny bit more after passing probation—I think everyone knows what that means.
As for whether the boss is stingy, in all fairness, that's a matter of opinion. However, there's no denying that the boss is clever: spend a little to save a lot (keep salaries very low, but let you choose the restaurant for company dinners).
I've been away from Leon for several years now, but I still keep in touch with several current or former coworkers. Everyone agrees that the problem is that you can only afford to hire monkeys when you're paying peanuts. Nowadays, the boss expects you to know how to do more and more things, but your salary doesn't increase along with it. As this situation keeps accumulating, everyone can only quit after working there for a short time.
A “good coworker” came forward to defend the company earlier, and I think that's great～ It's just that the post mentioned asking other coworkers to provide evidence. I'd actually like to see what there is in this place that could be produced as evidence. I'm also quite curious about the boss's private messages, hehe.
The employee turnover rate is high. I think it has something to do with the industry, but the company's system definitely has something to do with it too—and, in my opinion, no small amount～
That's all～
Judging from the comments, it was probably someone who didn’t get along with Leo (the boss) causing trouble, right?
I think it really depends on the person. We got along pretty well with Leo back then. I wouldn’t say he was easygoing, but he was a good person. When I first joined the company, I was broke and didn’t have much money. Leo somehow noticed and messaged me privately to ask whether I wanted to get my salary in advance, then transferred the money to me right away without a second thought.....
He really isn’t very generous with vendors, but he’s very generous with us. He lets us choose wherever we want for group dinners XD. My impression is that he clearly distinguishes between his own people and outsiders.
Leo really doesn’t arrive at the company early, but he’s always the last one to leave. Who does that hurt?
It was quite fun when I was there. Did they change managers?
PR agencies are very demanding.
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Employee turnover is extremely high; very few people stay for more than a year. Job openings are posted almost all year round, and the supervisor position is basically only posted for show. Normally, the company consists of just the owner and two or three employees. In the past, when things were better, there might also have been interns from Shu-Te University, but I heard that Lyon's reputation at Shu-Te is now also quite poor, so no interns are willing to come.
The owner is extremely emotional—if they have a bad mood after seeing the dentist, they take it out on employees. They cannot keep track of the company's affairs, forget all the plans they themselves proposed, and yell at employees, saying, "I never made a proposal like this." When they are in a bad mood, they slam the door to the small room and chain-vape. They are very difficult to get along with. In addition, the owner is also very dishonest. There was a need for an extra performer; at first, they said they were willing to pay 1,000, then later said they would only pay 500, and in the end it became a 200 gift voucher??
The company normally relies on one or two regular clients to make money. Although it occasionally gets some good new clients, because the owner is extremely lax and stingy and only cares about listed-company clients, they have also made some long-term clients extremely unhappy. There will probably be fewer and fewer projects.
The boss comes into the office very late every day
The boss is really fucking difficult to communicate with.
She only takes on difficult, crappy clients and works desperately hard to curry favor with them.
She quotes clients arbitrary prices, then turns around and cuts the vendors’ pay.
One time, she told us to cut the price, slashing off the entire fractional amount while still requiring the price to include tax.
The vendor said that the price she had offered was already fair and asked us not to cut it recklessly—to avoid cutting it so much that people would be upset, because then there would be no future business.
The company has very little structure. On the first morning of every new employee’s first day, they just sit around staring into space, waiting for the boss to come into the office.
A client can ask for a quotation and wait several months. Every time a client calls, the first thing they ask is, “Has the boss come into the office yet?” It’s really fucking ridiculous.
Nothing ever changes; they never stop to think about why people can’t stay.