地表最潮股份有限公司

There are some normal, easygoing colleagues, but not everyone is like that.

1. The salary is far below the industry standard, while the workload far exceeds what was described during the interview. The company’s owners want one person to ideally do the work of six, while offering only the minimum salary that meets the basic wage requirements under the Labor Standards Act. Salary adjustments are impossible. They make verbal promises during interviews, but in practice are completely unwilling to raise salaries.

2. Managers avoid responsibility and do not work. Some basic questions even have to be directed to very junior employees—people who may have been working for only three months—because the managers do not know the answers. The manager may even roar, “Then what do you want me to do? How do you want me to answer you?” with an attitude suggesting that you have angered them to death and that every mistake is your fault. It is also difficult to contact anyone. A minor matter requiring only an email can be dragged out for more than three months. Whenever superiors assign blame, they immediately shift responsibility and rush to report negatively about others to those above them. They are the perfect example of workplace backstabbers. If you want to experience working with people like this, feel free to come experience this workplace.

3. When you raise the many unreasonable demands, all you get are accusations that your work attitude is problematic, such as, “Please grow up. Do you really need to bother me, the boss, with something like this?” The matter is then completely unresolved or becomes even worse as a result.

4. The bosses are extremely stingy—utterly stingy—and are the perfect embodiment of wanting the horse to run well while refusing to feed it. Basically, they force you to find the best vendors and then push the prices down to extremely low levels. They will haggle until the vendors cannot even cover their costs, causing all their partner vendors to be flooded with negative reviews. As an employee, you always have to work hard to placate and apologize to the other party in order to calm the vendors’ hellish fury. You constantly worry that one day, after work, you will be ambushed by a group of furious vendors, while the bosses smugly boast everywhere about how they forced vendors to lose money doing work for them. (It is truly embarrassing.)

5. Working overtime is the norm, and it is difficult to apply for overtime pay. You are usually forced to offset it with time off because the boss cannot bear to pay you. Anyone who does not want to waste their youth and life should leave as quickly as possible. Difficulty applying for petty cash is also normal. The boss seems to think many things will simply fall from the sky; if they do not, you are expected to somehow produce them without spending the boss’s money on things they consider meaningless. If you cannot produce them, you are deemed incapable—it is all your fault, and you are told to reflect on yourself.

6. Work progress is often held back by the managers and bosses because they are not very clear about what they actually want. At Monday’s meeting, they may say to use Plan A for the exhibition, then switch directly to Plan B on Wednesday without notifying anyone. Although work on Plan A is already underway, the bosses and managers blame every problem on you and take their anger out on you. For example, even if the designer’s work for Plan A is worse than something drawn by a kindergartener, the boss will not blame the designer but will instead keep taking it out on you, berating you for two hours until they have vented their anger.

7. Once someone resigns, they are treated as untouchable. That person can stop doing any work entirely and does not need to hand things over properly. They may have no idea what they are doing at work and can even deliberately cause trouble for others. For example, a project that the departing employee was halfway through may be casually dumped on a newcomer. When the newcomer asks about specific problems, the departing employee may scold them incoherently and still provide no answer, leaving the issue unresolved. The manager will turn a blind eye and think that since the person is leaving, the newcomer should figure things out independently—even though the departing employee still has an entire month to complete the handover.

Conclusion: Since I did not stay long enough, I discovered that this workplace was extremely problematic and cannot provide other people with more information. However, judging from the reviews left by those who came before me, I have to tell everyone that everything written above is true! So I also quickly escaped from this company. I hope that none of you ever join this company in your lifetime (unless you think your life is going too smoothly and happily and desperately want to experience a problematic work environment).

The colleagues at the company are actually very easy to get along with.

You can meet many people.

Not long after I joined, employees started leaving one after another.

After the new manager took over, they only followed the boss’s lead.

If you are willing to obey orders, congratulations.

But if you offer plans and opinions, the boss and manager will turn a blind eye,

and will think you are acting like a know-it-all.

In this job, you have to shield the boss from a hundred attacks, and no one will care about you.

The people working there seem easy to get along with and also seem very resigned to their circumstances (辛苦了).

I’d like to share my interview experience; it was quite something.

After submitting my résumé, I received an interview notification. Once the time had been arranged, I called to reschedule because something came up at the last minute. When I called, the person on the other end seemed not to know that I had an interview scheduled, nor what position I was interviewing for.

On the day of the interview, after I arrived at the company, a woman asked me to sit in a chair and wait (and, once again, didn’t know what position I was there to interview for). The company had no partitions at all; desks and miscellaneous items coexisted in the same space. Just as others have shared, the office looked no different from a warehouse.

During the wait, I wasn’t asked to fill out any forms. I simply sat there waiting, and, out of boredom, observed how the other people were working.

At that point, I gradually heard people discussing things (arguing) on the balcony behind me, and they got louder and louder (the people involved were Mr. Wu and a female manager). I could hear their argument perfectly clearly, and the female manager eventually started crying (an instantly awkward situation). By then, I had already been waiting for nearly 20 minutes and was considering leaving. However, the kind woman came over and asked me to wait a little longer while she reminded the manager that there was an interview. (I even said that if they were busy, we could arrange another time, but unfortunately they came out……….)

So I was interviewed in turn by the two people who had just finished arguing. First was the female manager. She had not yet recovered emotionally and had a face that looked like she had just been crying, so naturally she asked the questions rather perfunctorily. Then it was Mr. Wu’s turn. His main question was whether I could accept working overtime, despite the salary not being very high. He also seemed quite opposed to people with families (so why did he invite me to an interview in the first place?). When I showed him my work samples, he didn’t seem interested in looking at them seriously either. (His attitude was quite casual.)

This was one of the more ridiculous and speechless interview experiences I’ve had. I was lucky enough to see the office’s true atmosphere on the day of the interview. After just one visit, the image I had formed of Mr. Wu and this company instantly collapsed.

The initial interview felt quite normal. The interviewer (presumably a junior manager) came across as very professional and articulate, and the interview questions were also quite standard. Overall, the junior manager’s image made me quite interested in joining the company.

In the second interview, I met the legendary CEO/boss, and my entire impression of the company was shattered! Compared with the initial interview, the boss’s questions were very unfocused. He first criticized me, then said he was willing to give me an opportunity, and offered a salary for a fresh graduate. It made me feel that the purpose of the second interview was simply to haggle down the salary (my salary). If the boss is really as “demanding” about everything as his Facebook image suggests, then employees would presumably also hope to get things “right the first time,” wouldn’t they? If he thought the candidate’s qualifications were insufficient, he should have rejected me during the initial interview—otherwise, what was the point of the initial interview? It was quite humiliating!

For everyone’s reference: My previous salary was n(k)-----I was directly asked about my previous salary during the initial interview as well

The salary range stated in the initial interview was approximately n+3(k)–n+6(k)-----During the initial interview, they mentioned that the work would be extremely, extremely exhausting

The boss offered me n-2(k)----There was also a probationary period, and whether there would be a raise after the probationary period was “based on performance”

In addition, they only said that the job operated under a responsibility-based system, but did not clearly explain the vacation policy, benefits, or employee rights. When I asked, they still did not provide clear answers. They also kept saying that they were hiring several people at once because of expansion, but the colleague who interviewed with the boss had only been with the company for a few months and was already planning to leave! (Hmm... being able to interview together with the boss after only a few months at the company, and then planning to leave after just a few months, really makes one suspect that this is a terrible job.)

To be honest, there are plenty of companies and bosses like this. The main issue is that the boss cultivated an image on Facebook of being very considerate and nice, but after the interview, discovering that he was actually different made me feel that it was quite disappointing! Other than the boss, though, the rest of the colleagues seemed like nice people!

From the outside, it is as appealing as an image advertisement for the Republic of China Armed Forces; outstanding young people with burning passion and lofty ambitions would probably all want to join. As a result, the employees are generally very capable.

In fact, it is just like the military. Everything is gay. Only the boss’s obsession with money is genuine.

Designers have flexible and free working hours (because the boss likes running around everywhere and showing off as a fashionable man)

The relationships among colleagues in the company are good

In addition to the advantages mentioned above, because the boss likes running around everywhere, he only understands the surface of what you are doing. He is also a very superficial businessman who is very good at negotiating prices: he will negotiate your salary as low as possible and take advantage of you as much as possible. Many of the clients who have worked with him have fallen out with him.

The boss has an extremely poor EQ—so poor that all the employees resigned together. This was the first time since entering the workforce that I had encountered someone who would publicly insult and berate people, calling them pigs and humiliating them. He believes that good performance requires being scolded (whether employees, vendors, or clients).

Another classic example is that he will lie to you about how capable and impressive the designers he has paid are, and how high his own standards are. Even when everyone is following the schedule and solving many practical problems that he does not care about at all (because he only likes acting as the public-relations person) and cannot solve himself, he only cares about his mood. If the progress does not look fast enough, he scolds people. In the end, after everyone resigned one by one, he spent twice as much time himself and still had not started construction. After construction began, he rejected the vendors we had spent a long time comparing and selecting at good prices, and found vendors he had originally claimed were inexpensive and professional. Those vendors ended up abandoning the project halfway through.

He also takes advantage of the designers and architects he originally worked with whenever he can.

The boss is very good at talking nonsense and deceiving people. For marketing purposes, before you join, he tells you how important you are, how grand his ideals are, and how much you can learn from him. In reality, from the day you join until the day you leave, you learn nothing. Even the famous Red Dot Hotel has now had its CEO dismissed. More frighteningly, now that he can no longer make a convincing case, when he goes out to discuss projects he often falsely claims that we did projects such as XX, or that he gave the input, and so on (which is completely unrelated to reality).

If you like watching him do marketing, you can go to Facebook and praise this “seafood” for a while.

All the colleagues are kind, and everyone supports one another.

The work environment is extremely poor—essentially a construction-site shed, with absolutely no interior decoration to speak of. Four IBM desks are simply set up, along with a second-hand air conditioner, and it is called a design and marketing company. The temporary office that the boss refers to has already been temporary for a year and a half. The boss is very prone to verbal abuse, using phrases such as “pigs,” “useless trash,” “I raised a bunch of animals,” “your brains are filled with shit,” and “sooner or later I’ll shut down the entire department.” The boss has very poor emotional control; making people stand in the blazing sun while berating them, throwing things, kicking walls, and slamming the desk are all common occurrences.