寬庭美學股份有限公司

The job opening you find is different from the one sent to you by the job bank, and the job duties can also be completely different—it all depends on the interviewer’s mood.

As the boss, they can say things like, “We only need to hire someone who has just graduated from university; there’s no need to hire a professional.” The interview time keeps being changed according to their schedule. Also, if the interview was arranged for the afternoon, is it really reasonable to tell you just before noon on the day that you can come after noon?

They constantly use their own viewpoints to belittle the candidate’s abilities. Even though the position being interviewed for was an administrative clerical role, they said that you couldn’t shoot videos. This company’s culture is truly peculiar.

They have an inflated sense of self, believing that the brand is very prestigious, and produce a large, bulky quarterly magazine. But now that e-books are everywhere, who still reads newspapers with you? As mentioned above, just hire someone who has recently graduated from university to make e-books for you—cheap and useful.

The position you find may be completely different from the one the job bank sent you, and the job responsibilities can also be entirely different—it all depends on the interviewer’s mood.

As the boss, they can say things like, “We only need to hire someone who has just graduated from university; there’s no need to hire a professional.” The interview time kept being changed according to their schedule. On the day of the interview, which had been arranged for the afternoon, they didn’t tell you until almost noon—do they expect you to arrive after noon?

They constantly belittle candidates’ abilities based on their own subjective views. The position was clearly for administrative and clerical work, yet they said you didn’t know how to shoot videos. This company culture is very unusual.

They have an inflated sense of self-importance, believing the brand is highly prestigious, and produce a large, bulky quarterly publication. Seriously, now that e-books are available, who still reads newspapers? As mentioned earlier, just hire a recent university graduate to make the e-book for you—it’s cheap and effective.

The Ghost Festival is coming up, so it feels appropriate to post this. There are good points and bad points below; please decide for yourself whether it suits you:

．The company environment is pretty good and the space is comfortable. Most colleagues are also easy to get along with. Under normal circumstances, overtime usually isn’t necessary, and there is a flexible 30-minute window for starting and ending work.

．The work itself isn’t complicated, but there are quite a lot of reports: pre-work analysis and evaluations, post-work reviews, and weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports—you name it. If you’re not good at paperwork and reports, dealing with all this may be somewhat difficult. But if you think positively, working this way can also make you more organized.

．There are an incredible number of meetings, and some of them last a very long time (regular meetings start at two hours). I’m relatively lucky because of my job; some colleagues get called into meetings by the boss. The boss doesn’t pay attention to the time when calling meetings. Once, at 5:50 p.m., he said he wanted to have a meeting, which clearly meant it would run past the end of the workday. (I’ve tried it before, and you can actually tell your supervisor that you don’t want to stay too late. There’s also a chance you can decline the meeting or leave early, but it depends on whether you dare to speak up.) (I’ve heard that if you don’t cooperate, you’ll be blacklisted in front of the boss, but I think a blacklisted life is happier—it saves you from many opportunities to be emotionally manipulated.)

．You really can learn a lot, because you have to figure out many things on your own. Personally, I feel that my work skills improved significantly here, and I also developed many peculiar skills that I didn’t necessarily want, such as reading people’s expressions and the atmosphere. But if you don’t want to live such an exhausting life, once you’ve trained enough, you’ll probably look for another way out. Then, when searching for a new job, you’ll feel that anyone who can communicate properly is a good person, making it easier to feel satisfied and realize that happiness is actually very simple.

．Taking leave is difficult. Even if you’re only taking half a day off, you have to fully hand over the work your backup is supposed to do. Regardless of whether it’s urgent, you have to write it down for your backup to handle. (Usually, we try to rearrange things and only hand urgent or necessary matters to the backup, but the supervisor said that wasn’t acceptable.) If the handover isn’t detailed enough, the backup may be summoned and scolded, which creates psychological pressure for the person taking leave. Oh, later they also changed the rules: if you take more than three days of leave, you have to notify them one month in advance. (These three days include holidays; if you take Monday or Friday off, that counts as three days.) *People taking leave aren’t necessarily harassed, since the Labor Standards Act means they can’t simply refuse to approve leave, but your backup may have a hard time.

．In addition to the actual work, there are miscellaneous tasks, such as taking care of the office plants and going to the basement to empty the dehumidifier. When a plant is close to dying, someone will even come remind you, “Remember to take care of it.” If it dies, the boss will be unhappy.

．The company’s annual party requires employees to dress up and dance on stage. You have to buy the outfit yourself and pay for your own hair and makeup, and you can’t buy anything too ordinary—you’ll be criticized for not looking upscale enough, because the company considers itself high-class, so its employees can’t dress in a low-class way. (Then give us uniforms, seriously. You expect employees to pay out of pocket and still have so many opinions?) (And what era is this? Employees still have to sing and dance to entertain the boss???)

．Some of the boss’s relatives and other favored people always look sullen. It’s impossible to see where the supposed sophistication is; all you can see is arrogance.

Whether the above points are good or bad really depends. If you feel that you’re mentally strong and not easily emotionally manipulated or subjected to PUA, you can still take this into consideration.

Coworkers are easy to get along with

The ten major offenses of an extraordinarily bizarre manager

1. The position described in the interview is different from the position you applied for. The interviewing manager completely decides what position to interview you for; it may also be that they cannot find anyone for certain openings, so they use other positions to recruit people for interviews.

2. During the interview, the manager gives you the impression that they are very considerate and genuinely have your best interests at heart. Whenever you have questions or difficulties, they enthusiastically help you think of solutions. But after you actually start work, they show a completely different face, giving you the feeling that they tricked you into joining first.

3. A certain department manager has a forceful personality, does not accept other people's opinions, and has unpredictable moods, getting angry at will. You never know when they will suddenly explode.

4. A certain department manager loves holding meetings and can hold several in one day. During meetings, the manager likes to pressure people aggressively but never explains things clearly, preferring to go around in circles and ultimately make you guess what they mean. They also often say something different about the same matter today than they did yesterday, contradicting themselves. It is difficult for a normal person to communicate with them; even when communication is forced, it feels like being lectured by a drill instructor.

5. A certain department manager likes to sow discord. They privately complain about other colleagues in the department, telling A that B is bad and B that C is bad. Every time they want to bad-mouth someone, they call the person into a small room, and each session lasts at least an hour. They want to create the impression that the manager is the only normal person in the entire department and that everyone else has problems.

6. A certain department manager has no relevant expertise yet can still be a manager. Whenever something happens, they hide, so just remember: you are always the one with the problem. The manager is perfect, the strongest, and always right.

7. A certain department manager makes all kinds of difficulties for subordinates during department meetings, but at company-wide or managers' meetings, they are a timid coward, flustered and at a loss.

8. Company events are semi-compulsory. Participants also have to perform, without receiving any compensation. If you do not participate, someone will use emotional pressure against you, saying that if you do not attend, the boss may be unhappy because you were absent and may target your department as a result.

9. When you encounter something unreasonable and tell the manager to follow the Labor Standards Act, the manager will tell you that only people who lack social awareness bring up the Labor Standards Act. I just want to ask who exactly lacks social awareness. It is like being robbed and reporting it to the police, then after the robber is arrested, they tell you that only people who lack social awareness report things to the police. I am curious what kind of bizarre logic this is.

10. When you submit your resignation, the manager will cheerfully say they understand and claim they want everyone to part on good terms. In reality, however, they will do everything possible to make things difficult, ordering employees preparing to leave to submit a large number of reports and plans—for example, requiring someone resigning in June to write the plan for a November event—and then, after that person leaves, reversing course and telling the employees who stayed to change this and that.

The manager mentioned in all the points above is the same person.

If anyone is as unfortunate as I was and encounters such a bizarre manager, my advice is: the sea of suffering is boundless, but turning back leads to the shore. Amen!

At a glance, the staff in the office generally seemed to have a good presence, but they all seemed very busy.

After the actual interview, I confirmed that you shouldn't use a consumer's perspective to set expectations for what appears to be a glamorous brand industry.

The interview was conducted by a middle-aged female manager, who reviewed my English ability and past email records. She explained that the English skills required for this position had to be polished and professional, and also emphasized that frequent overtime would be necessary, along with attending irregular weekend events and helping move heavy items.

Because the manager repeatedly emphasized the need for overtime, and seemed to care only about whether candidates could commute conveniently enough to avoid missing transportation, I couldn't help asking what caused the regular overtime. The female manager simply replied casually, "Because we can't sell all the merchandise, we need to work overtime to sell it all." (I was thinking, ??!! Doesn't the company hold regular internal meetings to review this?)

Later, another female senior manager joined us. Both of them felt like long-serving veterans, and they couldn't really explain the specific duties during the interview, as if anyone capable of taking on more work would be hired. Only at the end did they tell me that the salary for the position couldn't be very high. Judging from the situation at the time, the position seemed to offer only around 30,000. With so many requirements upfront, were they trying to offer bananas to hire a gorilla?

Finally, the manager said she hoped I could start within two weeks. However, I had already clearly explained that, since I was still employed, I would need a month to help my current company with the handover. She merely said quietly that I should start earlier, which made me feel even more clearly that the company's culture was quite selfish.

Looking back, seeing that the position kept being reposted on job websites, I was truly relieved that my initial intuition had been right.

Very close to the MRT station; aside from the office, all the display spaces are beautiful.

1. Some managers are very emotional.

2. The company is not digitized. Previously, we even had to record clock-in and clock-out times on paper. There are piles of paper-based procedures and many cumbersome systems.

3. There is a lot of infighting within the company.

4. The workload keeps increasing. Regardless of your background or expertise, they put a positive spin on it by saying it is an opportunity for you to learn.

5. The turnover rate in the office is relatively high.

7. They deduct money for the employee welfare committee, but I have never seen what benefits it provides, and there are no holiday bonuses or gifts.

Think carefully before joining. What they want is outstanding talent who needs no guidance, can hit the ground running, and has high productivity. :)

Very close to the MRT station

1. As soon as I arrived, they asked me to fill out their résumé form and answer some questions.

It took almost half an hour to complete.

It would be better to email the form to us in advance so we could fill it out beforehand and avoid wasting time.

2. After learning more about the job, I found that it seemed different from what was written on 104. In other words, they are looking for someone who can work independently without waiting for others to assign tasks. Doesn’t that mean you have to know how to do everything?

3. When reviewing my portfolio, the interviewer did not even pick it up or look through it, which I found very rude. This was the first time I had encountered an interviewer like that. It felt as though they were not interested in my work and believed that only their own products counted. Throughout the interview, they kept saying how highly regarded their brand was in the industry, and so on.

4. Overall, I didn’t hear anything about the benefits.

All I heard was constant praise about how prestigious the brand was.

Employees at affiliated restaurants receive benefits equivalent to those at the hotel.

The head chef acted as if he knew a lot of people, and the job posting did not match the actual work they asked me to do. After asking me about my salary, he required me to do a three-day trial (I have never encountered a three-day trial in this industry). I showed up on time on the agreed date, but they asked me to leave, claiming that because I had not told him I was coming for the trial, they had not arranged insurance for me (the trial was arranged by him—how could he say I had not told him?). The head chef said he would call me later. That afternoon, I called the head chef back to ask whether I needed to do the trial the next day. He again said he would get back to me later, and then disappeared without a word. Three days later, I called the company’s HR department, and HR said they would get back to me—but I am still waiting. I deliberately turned down other interviews and arranged time off for the trial. Even hotels that are larger and more prestigious than them do not require trial work, yet they insisted that I do a three-day trial. This company has absolutely no respect for others and does not treat other people’s time as valuable.