阿通伯樂器有限公司

Extremely bad, with no advantages.

The boss constantly changes decisions, has narcissistic and self-centered tendencies, and is incredibly difficult and impatient to deal with. The only somewhat favorable impression was on the first day, during the interview.

The colleagues are all very nice.

It’s rare to encounter so many good colleagues in the workplace.

The company’s policies and benefits have major loopholes. Before joining the company, you should study the law carefully. Labor laws and such are still stuck several years in the past, even though they have been changed many times—they have not been updated at all and still follow outdated rules. Therefore, you have to actively fight for all your rights yourself; otherwise, they act as if nothing happened. When you ask about it, they say, “I forgot”??

It’s quite absurd that this conclusion can actually come from a boss.

This company’s perfect-attendance bonus is apparently included in your salary instead of being paid separately. So if you take personal leave, not only will half a day’s pay be deducted, but your perfect-attendance bonus will also be deducted!

First of all, Boss M gives people the impression that he looks down on others. He constantly disdains people and is extremely self-righteous.

When you often talk to him, you can feel how perfunctory his attitude is. He also has absolutely no sense of time. Meetings scheduled with him for 3 p.m. are usually delayed by an hour before they can actually begin. Either a friend has come over and he wants to chat, or he has invited too many people to the meeting. He has no control over his schedule at all, causing meetings to be pushed back and preventing work from proceeding smoothly. Even if you manage to start the meeting on time, Boss M often suddenly leaves to chat with vendors or friends, leaving you sitting there waiting for him in the office. Extremely inefficient!

Meetings are also extremely inefficient. Communication is truly a major obstacle. He keeps aggressively asking how you plan to solve these issues. When you offer an idea, he keeps arguing against it and acts as if he cannot understand how you could think that way. He says he has a poor memory, so every meeting requires a written record and everything must be written down. But every time you do so, he finds other reasons to argue back, or accuses you of recording things incorrectly, saying that he never said it that way last time. Every meeting with him is an enormous headache.

Meetings should solve problems, but every time it feels like participating in a debate competition with him. He loves arguing against everything employees say. When you say something he cannot refute, he starts going in circles, or exaggerates and redirects your issue while blaming you for something else.

Every meeting reveals a new version of him. During meetings, he keeps contradicting theories he proposed previously and then comes up with new ones. Very often, you do something according to his instructions, only to be told next time, “Why did you do it this way? That’s not what I said last time.” Even when there is a record, he can still claim that you remembered it incorrectly, leaving employees confused. So are we supposed to follow your instructions or not?

He often gets sudden ideas and immediately tells you to do something, expecting you to do it at once. He thinks one person can handle ten things at the same time. He keeps piling tasks on you, then asks why you have not finished everything, why you cannot finish, and why you are taking so long.

You need to be mentally prepared not to expect that you can simply focus on doing your own job. Whenever there is a shortage of staff, he will additionally ask you to do other people’s work. The division of responsibilities is extremely unclear, and the tasks are all over the place.

The working environment is poor, with lots of dust and outdated equipment.

In front of new employees, he pretends to be a very generous boss, saying that any equipment problems can be solved by replacing the equipment with new ones.

In reality, we have reported these issues to him many times. He either delays by saying they will be replaced later, or tells you not to complain about the equipment and to improve your own work abilities—to survive in a harsh environment??? I just came here to work, not to participate in some outdoor reality show. In reality, he simply has no intention of making any changes.

There is no standardized SOP. Everything is chaotic, including internally. Boss M and the manager are even in meetings all day long, yet I never feel that anything changes after their meetings. They are just wasting time and their lives. Despite holding so many meetings, there has been no change to the system—not even the slightest change.

You have to figure everything out yourself. If you cannot think of a solution, he criticizes you for not discussing it. If you go to him to discuss it, he says that this kind of thing does not need to be brought to him and that you should not mention it next time. Then he says that everything must be reported in the future. After going through this several times, your head will genuinely explode! Whenever you report an issue, you cannot get a solution. He only comes out to resolve it and yell at people when things are truly about to explode. If he really has procrastination issues, I advise him not to become a boss.

He is a very typical old-school boss who exploits employees and disrespects their professional expertise. He loves deducting money and will find all kinds of loopholes to make deductions! He deducts your performance-related pay! He says one thing and does another!

If you are thinking of joining, really think twice!!

Sometimes it's really quiet, provided the boss forgets you exist.

You might as well take it easy and not try to stand out—the salary is the same anyway, and it's low.

The boss will use you by any means necessary and squeeze you dry.

They pay very little but expect you to do a lot, treating you like a human Doraemon.

They also have absolutely no respect for professional expertise, thinking their own aesthetic sense is the best and that they understand everything. They are very dictatorial and insist on deciding everything themselves.

As a result, everyone has to attend regular meetings, but whether you get to participate depends on their mood and how busy they are.

They constantly change their story. For example, today they may think a direction is fine, but by the following week, when you have nearly worked out the overall structure, they will say, “Uh, this isn't what I wanted. Let's change it to something else,”

and if you argue with them—even if you have kept a verbatim transcript of the original meeting—they will still claim that you typed it incorrectly or remembered it wrong.

Every meeting always ends unpleasantly.

It feels like the boss really wants to imitate the model of happy companies abroad, with a comfortable work environment and interesting ideas. Having that vision is fine, but they have been talking about improving the company environment for almost two years, and there is still no end in sight. The so-called “interesting” initiatives are merely the boss amusing themselves.

They make grand promises and work the employees to death.

Several administrative employees have already left, and the turnover rate is extremely high. The way the boss treats employees speaks for itself.

The clock-in system is even less flexible than those at large companies. If you forget to clock in or forget your card, they deduct $1,500—half a month's perfect-attendance bonus—from your pay (officially, the total “perfect-attendance penalty” is $3,000).

They deduct money under all sorts of contrived pretexts.

There is an unlimited supply of snacks, which only became available after employees suggested it to the boss. However, the snacks are kept in the boss's office, which is normally locked, so you have to ask them whenever you want something. It feels awful.

1. You get to play many great instruments at work.

2. Many of your coworkers are musicians, and they’re pretty easy to get along with.

1. The musical instrument industry (especially guitars) is pretty much dead. You’d at least make more money selling other things.

2. There are a lot of rules, and even when things are slow, you can only pretend to be busy, haha.

3. Low pay.

The work environment is fairly clean and tidy.

The company isn't actually very large, yet it has an excessive number of rules. There are more nitpicky requirements than there are employees. They won't show understanding where a little flexibility is warranted, but they also won't provide what they should. There are also some extremely strange rules, such as their obsession with clocking in: if you don't bring your card or the card doesn't register, they insist on counting it as tardiness and deducting your perfect-attendance bonus. It feels like they're looking for all kinds of excuses to dock your pay, which feels terrible. As for the actual work, I can't be bothered to elaborate. They pay very little but expect you to handle many cross-disciplinary tasks. They have amateurs do professional work, then scrutinize it according to extremely picky standards and nitpick every detail. A lot of things seem to have no clear purpose. In short, it's hard to tell what exactly the boss is thinking…

When it's quiet, it's pretty quiet.

You can do your own things.

A certain M boss treats you outright as if you were a prophet.

They don't tell you in advance what needs to be done.

Then, when something happens, they'll blame you for it.

They'll say they don't have time and are very busy, and that employees should figure things out for themselves.

There's no planning in how things are done—just lots of self-righteous “I think this is really fun.”

They work employees to the bone and exhaust them completely.

The employees they hire leave one by one, driven away by frustration.

They'll even compete with the planners over proposals.

Utterly boring.

And they have absolutely no respect for professional expertise.

The boss's so-called communication is all about steering your views until they're the same as theirs,

not listening to employees' thoughts.

So basically, communication is impossible.

They hire people simply to highlight their own sense of superiority.

The good name of Uncle A-Tong really only lasted as long as Uncle A-Tong was around.

If you want to challenge your own servile nature and prophetic abilities,

feel free to apply.