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The colleagues all get along very well, like brothers and sisters. Even middle and elementary school classmates would be happy just thinking every day about what to eat and what drinks to have.

The colleagues are all around the same age, and do everything together.

Everyone at the junior level is highly capable, and handles things very efficiently.

Basically, during working hours, the supervisor didn’t interfere much (in the past).

You could decide what kinds of snacks you wanted in the snack cabinet (in the past).

Graphic design,

Within three months of joining, I was moved between three different teams, moved house once, and changed workstations twice.

I changed at least three work forms. Every work form for tasks assigned by the boss was filled out exactly as instructed,

but at the next meeting the boss would still act like a computer that had restarted without saving—as if they understood nothing,

and then scold you, saying you couldn’t do things like that.

The General Affairs team went from initially handling only the magazine subscriber system to later being criticized and scolded even for the company cleaning.

Magazines could be sent by Black Cat, but to save 10 dollars in shipping, they specifically went to a post office one kilometer away,

carried 10 kg of magazines, and waited in line for an hour to send them out (saving just over 100 dollars in total, and not even that much).

Held pointless meetings every day.

Watching the boss find the form they had created would take about 10 minutes,

and then watching them fail to understand the form would take another 5 minutes.

Finally, they would angrily say: “Oh, this isn’t right! This is the wrong way to do it! Listen to me—keep it simple!”

It was extremely baffling.

Everything ultimately had to go through the supervisor’s approval and inspection before being sent out,

but all errors were blamed on the junior staff.

The supervisor would look at you with an O.O expression and blame you for messing things up.

The money was never paid on time; it was always blamed on the shareholders.

The company’s finances clearly had problems: it owed money for rent, utilities, delivery services, and printing fees and didn’t pay them.

None of the benefits mentioned on PTT existed.

Labor and health insurance were not enrolled or paid on time.

I had at least three different business cards made after joining the company.

I had to add a whole bunch of inexplicable QR codes and company mobile numbers for the sales staff.

Whenever an extension changed, the cards had to be revised again.

All the company’s lousy graphic materials came from the supervisor messaging on LINE that day: “Could you take care of this?”

Then you had to make it and give it to them (but they wouldn’t look at it right away either, zzz).

They were extremely bad at scheduling.

The magazine deadlines were only for show. No matter what deadline was agreed upon, the supervisor group would definitely drag things out before showing them to you,

and then, without telling you the deadline had been missed, continue pretending nothing had happened.

Or, after you had done a whole pile of tasks they assigned, they would tell you:

“Because of business needs, none of these are needed anymore. Please immediately change to the next one.”

After finally producing something with a fairly high level of completion, and getting their approval that it was okay to print,

they would take it privately after printing and tell other junior staff that this was how it should not be done.

During the interview,

they would viciously disparage you as worthless, then flatter you and tell you that it was your immense honor that our company was willing to hire you.

Then they would tell the other employees:

“For graphic design jobs, as soon as we post an opening, résumés come in like snowflakes~~”

A supposedly excellent company that disrespects employees and treats them as disposable.

(As an aside, after I left, the company underwent a major renovation and installed surveillance cameras. Truly excellent.)

1. The company’s rank-and-file colleagues get along well. After all, we all have a common enemy, so we can talk shit together. Other than that, there’s probably nothing else.

1. Upper management always lives in its own parallel universe. Either they think the company isn’t short of that little bit of money, and that paying you a meager salary to come work for them makes them the savior of your life, when in reality they fail to pay or underpay all kinds of fees and pay salaries late, while focusing on a pile of meaningless trivialities.

Or they think the company is amazing and can do anything others can do. In reality, there’s no equipment when equipment is needed and no budget when a budget is needed. They use the phrase “let’s all weather these difficult times together” to steamroll every proposal from their subordinates, genuinely believing they can make videos with the desired production quality out of a pile of scrap metal.

Or they just want to come to the company to sleep. Other than sleeping, eating snacks, and playing the mobile game Ragnarok Online, don’t come to me about anything else. If subordinates have problems, go to other members of upper management; if the boss has problems, go to rank-and-file employees. They only bother to lecture us a little and make their presence felt when they start yelling.

2.

Basically, whenever something can only be handled by upper management, you probably have two options: first, wait; second, take on more and more other matters and pile them onto upper management until everything explodes together. Have you ever played Bomberman? The more bombs you place, the larger the range, and you still have nowhere to hide. In the end, your conscience will make it impossible to explain things to the client. You won’t bring in any business, and you’ll still be “encouraged” by upper management—read: mocked—to keep working hard because you didn’t land any projects this month. Please, can you at least give me the complete materials first? And even if you get them at the last moment, you have to face a battle between heaven and humanity: if you don’t send them out, you can’t account for yourself, but if you do, you’re basically killing your conscience, because the placement data you received is even more fake than the fabricated data made by soldiers during military service. You can’t even convince yourself—how are you supposed to convince the vendor? How are you going to bring in business afterward?

3. Do you know what a pyramid scheme is? If not, you should know now. Senior management will constantly encourage you, making you think they’re on the same side as you, but in reality, they’re probably just watching to see how long you, with nothing, can hold out under this rotten system. You left? Great—now they can find someone else to deceive.

It depends on what you consider to be an advantage.

The list is endless.

1. The supervisor constantly talks about transformation, but in the end still runs the company using the same approach that has failed to make money.

2. The boss privately lends or sells products obtained from vendors to friends, and the products are never seen again.

3. The boss constantly claims to have no money, yet always spends it on strange things, such as Uni-President trash cans, surveillance cameras even though there is already a fingerprint access-control system, or pepper buns.

4. The boss wants to keep track of every employee’s work progress at all times. The problem is that, while comparing himself to Terry Gou, he is only contradicting himself. Sir, have you ever seen Terry Gou know what every employee is doing?

5. The number of supervisors is completely disproportionate to the number of front-line employees. Some do not think, some are two-faced, some love sleeping, some do not communicate, and some are self-important. Oh! I heard a very “Buddhist-style” one recently joined—I mean the beads on his hand.

6. They tell employees who have not resigned how terrible former employees supposedly were. As soon as an employee leaves, they immediately make disgusting comments in the office about things that were never actually completed.

7. Some people also openly lie to other employees, for example: “After working for a year, his salary definitely won’t be higher than yours,” “We tried to keep him many times,” and “I’m definitely on your side.”

8. I do not know why the job titles posted on 104 and PTT clearly say “Art Editor” and “Technical Editor,” but when you arrive, they tell you, “You can only start out as an editor.”

9. Labor insurance is not enrolled on time when you start, and it is not withdrawn on time when you leave. When you present the Enforcement Rules of the Labor Insurance Act upon resignation, the boss still scolds you: “Are you stupid? The company isn’t short of this little bit of money.” (Oh, really.)

10. Supervisors mostly mock you in front of everyone, saying through their own twisted reasoning that you are not qualified, and then pat you on the head in private. However, looking at the two articles, their writing styles and approaches were similar. Yet for one, they told the person it was detailed, while the other was suddenly criticized for only covering the surface.

11. Supervisors tell you that you can propose any ideas you have, but in the end they will not even discuss them, provide no reason, and say nothing about how to improve them or how we should implement the project. They simply let two weeks of everyone’s hard work die on the spot.

12. If a proposal or project you submit cannot make money within a month, you are only allowed to stop. The problem is that the clients the boss personally brings in are all described as possibilities for the future—ones that need more cultivation and might work out.

13. The boss always tells the sales staff how close he is to this person or that person, saying that they only need to mention his name. Some people also like to say that a particular contact is their apprentice. Then why do they keep letting that person make unreasonable demands for no apparent reason?

14. They do not respect professional expertise, constantly requiring art editors to help with unrelated, non-creative tasks. On Monday morning, they ask a director who just finished filming a video on Sunday, “Can you have the trailer ready by noon today?”

15. Supervisors love telling employees, “Just do something simple.” But then they complain that simple work lacks creativity, while anything more elaborate is criticized as inefficient. Their preferred method of improvement is about 20 years out of date.

16. The boss is always demanding employee efficiency. But when you ask the boss for documents that have to go through him—such as pay slips, salary payments, or settlement reports—he only replies, “Wait until I’m back after one ‘summer.’” Yes, about as long as an entire summer.

17. One supervisor’s specialties, besides eating and grabbing snacks, include taking the company’s most powerful computer to run an emulator for Ragnarok M and sleeping at work. Of course, dumping tasks on employees three days before the deadline is also routine. Or they simply ignore the contents of an entire magazine, leaving almost the whole issue to be completed by one person.

18. You can never tell whether anything communicated by supervisors is actually true. Every time, the versions coming from three different people are different, and none of them matches the others. In the end, the boss became so angry that he directly asked the supervisor whose specialty was sleeping, “Is this company yours or mine?”

19. The boss has an enormous vocabulary of emotionally charged remarks, such as: “Get clear on whose salary you’re taking.” “Miss, are you stupid?” “What you’re doing is really too much.” “Is this company yours or mine?” “Everything is someone else’s fault; it has nothing to do with me.” Ah! The last line is the inner monologue I filled in for him.

20. One two-faced supervisor is very good at painting grand visions and making empty promises, constantly claiming to give young people room to develop, while in reality using ingrained thinking to limit their imagination.

If I keep writing, it feels like I’m going to finish all 5,000 words. To sum up, if you happen to come across this article, please remember: do not be deceived into joining this company. Some people, things, and practices simply deserve to be eliminated.

Colleagues have great relationships with one another

You can talk nonsense at work

Lunch breaks are very flexible

Flexible working hours

1. There’s no overtime pay, and exchanging it for compensatory leave would be bad enough—but one month I worked 118 hours of overtime, and then got chewed out for taking compensatory leave!

2. The average production budget for each episode of a web drama is only NT$10,000. What the hell can you produce with that? Do they really think a budget of NT$10,000 per episode can recoup anything?

3. The managers are two-faced—everyone knows it, yet they still lie about it. We all know how much everyone earns, but they still make up nonsense.

4. At first, they’ll let you freely create what you want, but the time is limited—at most a little over a month. If they don’t see results, they immediately shut everything down. Seriously, what kind of results can you produce in a little over a month with video content? Which YouTuber didn’t become popular gradually? If you want immediate profits, why not go into scams?

5. There are six managers and four employees, a 3:2 ratio. In a military unit, how does it make sense for there to be more platoon leaders and senior sergeants than soldiers?

6. Salaries are paid late, and then they blame the shareholders for not paying employees. I’ve never seen shareholders personally pay employees’ salaries—what, is the boss just a puppet?

7. They spend all day thinking they’re Terry Gou. He started from nothing—what about you?

8. There are already very few employees, and we often help one another, yet we still get criticized for it and told to apply for cross-department support???? Do you think your company has 500 employees?

9. We fill out forms every week. Even when they’re basically the same form, there are three or four different versions to complete. Then they don’t even read them?

10. The managers’ efficiency is truly at sloth level.

11. They often badmouth employees who aren’t present.

12. A company of only a few ping needs to install five surveillance cameras, with the excuse that employees might steal company equipment. Why not just ask if you see it in a drawer, for fuck’s sake?

13. A company with fewer than ten employees has a boss, COO, director, editor-in-chief, managing editor, and sales manager? What the hell is that?

14. Employee turnover is insanely high—more outrageous than a restaurant’s table turnover rate.

15. The video equipment is terrible and all from Taobao. After only a few uses, the fluid head on the camera tripod came apart. In the past it was even worse: they used a photography tripod for video recording. How the hell are you supposed to pan with that? The audio equipment is even more shitty; the recording quality is worse than an old cassette recorder.

16. The water is often cut off, and they don’t pay their bills. They owe money everywhere, including the delivery service, and then angrily ask why I have to deal with such trivial matters.

17. I don’t know what the managers’ brains are made of. We finished filming on Sunday, and on Monday they immediately asked me, “Have you finished editing the trailer?????” Bro, I only finished filming yesterday, for fuck’s sake!

18. In one week, one person edited one web drama, one trailer, three video unboxings, and one tech report, while also preparing the next web drama, coordinating schedules, locations, and the budget with the actors, and creating storyboards. Am I Superman?

19. They carelessly throw employees’ belongings on the floor.

20. They bully the kind and fear the aggressive; they tremble when they encounter an intimidating employee.

Standard two-day weekend (except in special circumstances); they generally don’t like having everyone work overtime.

Colleagues get along very well (although the relationship between supervisors and employees is poor).

Flexible working hours, plus cookies, instant noodles (← the supervisor in question consumes these two items especially quickly), and drinks.

Very suitable for people seeking stability (basically, an easy paycheck).

Convenient transportation near the company.

1. Labor and health insurance enrollment is always processed late.

2. Salaries are always paid late (and employees have to repeatedly remind them); they say it is all the shareholders’ fault.

3. Supervisors’ work efficiency is always extremely low (even when something is finished early, it may still not be given to the client two or three weeks later).

4. Supervisors often act two-faced (using slick rhetoric).

5. There are more supervisors than employees (you could say the ratio is 1:1).

6. No holiday bonuses or gifts for the three major festivals; most benefits exist only for reference (if the company makes no money, where would the benefits come from?).

7. Supervisors never respect professional expertise (in the art-related department).

8. They do not trust employees (secretly install monitoring software without employees’ consent).

9. There are often endless forms to fill out (even after you fill them out, they will not look at them) and endless meetings.

10. Equipment and facilities are unusable (they really like buying cheap Taobao goods).

11. Salaries are remitted from another company, which can cause problems when applying for a credit card (the boss owns two companies, one of which is a shell company).

12. It feels like a large company, but it is actually a small one; excluding supervisors, only five employees remain.

13. The boss does not spend money where it matters (for example, they will not replace unusable equipment, but will buy telephones—one for every desk—or standardized trash cans, etc.).

14. They often use personal favors as leverage (front-line employees are always stuck in a dead end).

15. Problems with the company are frequently brought up, but there is never a solution; we are instead expected to be understanding.

16. They often toss out remarks like: “Are you done? Just make it simple.” (How simple is it supposed to be?)

17. “Aiya~ I’m speechless!” (An in-joke known by the company’s employees.)

18. The company’s reputation in the industry is terrible, making it difficult to get projects (a similar company gets more projects and even made sarcastic comments about them).

19. Among internal entry-level employees, the longest tenure is no more than one year (recently, it may be changing to one or two months).

20. There is an OO with poor emotional control who often makes shocking remarks (very poor EQ).

21. There was also a web drama that stopped halfway through production (very short-sighted); the production budget per episode was guaranteed to be frighteningly low.

22. They often badmouth former employees.

23. Policies are frequently changed (as are the forms).

24. Employees are all required to wear multiple hats (the company has no dedicated accountant).

25. The company has moved locations several times and often secretly changes the office layout.

26. Employees are always expected to clean up the mess (a pile of crappy tasks).

27. The salary offered does not match the duties listed in the job posting.

28. It is a small company, yet even transferring between teams requires filling out a form.

29. There are often strange policies (for example, no headphones at work because you might not hear the phone or doorbell?).

30. They say they want to be a startup and change the company, but their policies often rely on old-fashioned practices.

Conclusion:

Interviews usually last around 2–3 hours, so use the restroom before going in (most of the time is just casual conversation). If your abilities are acceptable, you will basically be hired on the spot.

That is my personal experience! I cannot see a future at this company, so all job seekers should think carefully.

The company's location is fairly convenient for commuting. Clocking in and out is done on a tablet, so it is easy to clearly keep track of how many hours of overtime you have worked.

The relationships among colleagues are pretty good (limited to entry-level staff), and you also get an early look at quite a few of the latest products.

Short version:

This company does not provide salary statements, and salaries are often paid late.

(Also, salaries are paid by another company owned by the boss, but the person in charge is not listed under his name, so you cannot apply for a credit card.)

The benefits listed on PTT are all fake. There are no holiday bonuses, and none of the benefits that should be provided are actually available.

The number of employees is nowhere near as high as claimed, and the operations are extremely problematic.

Detailed account:

The people in senior positions are extremely disrespectful of professional expertise.

They treat technical editors like production-line workers,

using standards from twenty years ago to demand that editors write a certain number of words per article in order to count toward performance,

and only caring about word count while ignoring the content and quality. This approach is truly laughable.

The audiovisual department suffers even more. The supervisor has no understanding whatsoever of professional workflows or staffing arrangements,

and demands that the audiovisual department produce at least 2–3 videos a week (even though the available manpower simply cannot manage it),

while the company does not provide any equipment. Photographers even have to use their own equipment to cover for the company.

The supervisor only says, “What’s so difficult about shooting and editing a video? Why does it take so long? Is the output so low because you’re having it too easy?”

When it comes to the sales staff, all they do is tell them to find ways to get money and projects from clients.

But whenever a decision needs to be made and the boss is asked to provide data, he always says he is busy.

The information is delayed for three months at a time, or fake data is provided,

and afterward the sales staff are blamed for having such poor performance.

The graphic designers are treated like disposable workers. Every kind of miscellaneous task is handed to them:

printing, layout, customer service, subscriber management, e-commerce, administration, accounting, attendance tracking, and traffic statistics.

Even when the company's utility bills and management fees have not been paid, the graphic designers are told to handle it.

Deadlines are constantly postponed.

After layouts have already been completed, getting the supervisor to confirm them always drags on until right before they are sent to print, when he says they need to be revised or replaced.

At other times, the supervisor is busy secretly sleeping or playing Ragnarok Online.

The company even thinks graphic designers have it too easy, since they only spend a few days each month laying out the magazine.

Offering you a salary of 26K is treated as an enormous favor.

The articles written by the boss himself have no professional substance and are not fact-checked.

(Previously, he would take screenshots of comments from netizens on PTT and treat them as an article, and he even dared to publish them in the magazine.)

Vendors have already ordered a boycott and do not want to see his articles anymore,

but from time to time he still secretly takes old articles from a year earlier, changes the submission date, and reposts them.

When readers discover this and leave comments on the fan page, he simply ignores and deletes the comments.

The poor entry-level staff are always the ones on the front line taking the brunt of the backlash.

The supervisors are also a major problem. One constantly fills the boss's head with flattery,

while another only shirks and does nothing; as for the rest, nobody knows what they are doing.

They also constantly pass the blame onto their subordinates. They always say one thing and do another.

After being chewed out by a client, they comfort themselves by saying that the client does not know how to appreciate things.

The fact is that everything they handle gets changed into something cheap and lacking in quality, yet they still try to bamboozle clients with empty rhetoric.

It really is a wonderful company—consistently so. It has made no progress at all from beginning to end!

None of the managers take responsibility, so it’s great for some people.

Whether or not you’re enrolled in labor insurance is uncertain; some people weren’t enrolled until nearly a month after starting work.

The company’s policies change from day to day. The boss keeps making you fill out countless forms—so many that even he can’t find where they are. The format of the forms is constantly changed, as if that somehow means work is being done. Then they keep holding meetings and telling you to fill out even more forms because they’re afraid you aren’t doing anything (the form is your work progress for the week). Once, they told us to fill out a form the day before and write up the meeting minutes. Everything was saved in the designated cloud folder, and the meeting minutes were left on his desk. The next day, they still held another meeting and aggressively questioned us about why he didn’t know our work progress.

The managers are two-faced, saying different things in front of and behind people’s backs.

Whenever there’s a problem, they push all the blame onto the employees below them.

Even when something clearly passed through their hands and was reviewed by them,

they still blame you for everything afterward.

Not to mention that after you leave, people will keep spreading all kinds of gossip about you. Basically, every mistake gets dumped on you, haha.

There are more managers than employees in the entire company.

The boss spends all day spending money on a bunch of meaningless things.

He completely ignores everything needed for equipment, facilities, and staffing.

There is a manager who does nothing but sleep all day.

I don’t care if she sleeps; it’s just that basically most things in the company have to go through her.

So most of the progress gets stuck with her and can’t move forward.

Ask her anything and she knows nothing about it.

She only pretends to get serious and asks about our work progress when the boss chews her out.

Sorry, but the work progress, finished products, and items requiring review were all sent to you one or two weeks ago.

Then she’ll say, “Send it again,” haha. And the cycle repeats.

Oh, and she also spreads things around carelessly.

She even twists your words before repeating them to other managers.

The boss would never fire her, no matter what.

The boss is constantly fantasizing that he runs a large company.

He apparently doesn’t realize that the entire company only has a little over ten people, with managers making up more than half of them.

Even a tiny company like this requires us to fill out all kinds of cross-department support forms.

Sorry, but I could just turn around and tell her directly.

There are far too many other shortcomings to mention, haha.

Overall, it’s simply a company that has no idea what it’s doing.

I genuinely advise newcomers not to be fooled.

There are people inside who are very skilled at using rhetoric to manipulate you.