This page collects workplace experiences, questions and discussions submitted by users. Dates shown are submission dates, not periods of employment. Individual reports do not describe the entire company.
Read the community guidelinesAlmost no overtime
After staying for two months, I no longer wanted to continue. I learned nothing.
The company has been established for 20 years and still uses primitive methods to get things done.
The long-term employees have mush for brains.
They have dealings with all the major companies, but it is obvious that they are only selling you the appearance of prestige and giving you a small favor.
What’s frightening is that the company’s senior management seems completely unaware and continues to feel good about itself.
As others have mentioned, every day is like acting out a palace-intrigue drama. It’s unbearably annoying.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Strong backing; unless the boss wants to retire, the company won’t go under.
Taking leave is convenient.
Employees are required to submit eight hours of work records every day. The company says this is to calculate project costs, but everyone pads the hours just to complete the forms.
By the end, the project ends up losing a huge amount of money and all the work is for nothing. The reason for the loss isn’t labor costs anyway—the records are just painful to look at.
As for the staff, those without ability keep themselves pointlessly busy, while those with ability can only pretend to be busy.
The most important matters are never properly supervised; all day long, people get caught up in conflicts and struggles in bizarre areas.
You can look up posts on PTT. Congratulations to the vice president, who became general manager I-don’t-know-how-many years ago.
People from other companies and the boss’s social circle are all watching this as a joke. Only the boss is too soft-hearted to bring the situation under control.
The whole company seems to be afraid of making one person unhappy. Eighty percent of the people affected by project decisions are the same person, and that person continues to make decisions, continues to receive special privileges, and continues to carry them out.
Are we looking forward to the next 20 years?
Isn’t the boss the real philanthropist?
I truly feel sorry for the boss.
Having connections makes things easier.
You can gain access to opportunities that small companies cannot offer.
If you are not particularly ambitious, it is a good place to coast until retirement.
As long as you figure out whom to curry favor with, you are guaranteed a smooth and comfortable time.
It is supposedly a design company, but hardly anyone knows how to design, and the taste is bizarre.
Just look at the Rio Olympics uniforms—you will understand. They are very Yu-Jing in style.
Only a few people truly hold power in the company, and even assistants speak more loudly than people in other positions.
When those at the top say A, no one dares say B. After taking a few losses, you will learn that you absolutely cannot tell the truth—you will be targeted.
A bunch of people with no outside experience are using trial-and-error methods in-house. No one outside accepts this way of doing things; without connections, who would care about you?
Only a few people handle business development. The other salespeople just hold out their hands and maintain the existing business.
The company loves religious rituals; whenever it gets a good opportunity, it says the credit belongs to the rituals.
Assistants only need to be very good at helping out to be praised as “so great” (isn’t that their job?).
Even if you have nothing to do and go help out, you will be told that you are considering the company’s interests. Meanwhile, people who do their own work well and have no time to help are accused of lacking team spirit.
A company with fewer than 50 employees has its finance department acting as though it were directing a company of several thousand people.
The bosses are extremely biased. They especially like people who have little ability and only know how to agree with them. They talk about fairness as though everyone else were blind.
Overall, this company really does not have many major business problems. If you have connections and a strong backer, you will not have to worry about making a living.
But a few people fight among themselves every day, dragging the company down and preventing it from moving forward.
They keep a bunch of people with no performance or ability around; as long as you know how to curry favor with a few people, they will take good care of you.
I hope the people in power can gain clear insight and see the facts, instead of continuing to keep a bunch of yes-men around for the sake of “personnel stability.”