提克國際服飾股份有限公司

◆ Very close to the MRT station, within a 5-minute walk

◆ Official start time is 9:00 a.m., but everyone arrives around 9:10–9:15. As long as you are not excessively late, it will not count as being late

◆ Afternoon tea every Friday. It is not ordered collectively, so you can choose your own flavor

◆ Leave half an hour early every Friday (but whether you can actually leave on time depends on your luck ^^)

◆ Except for the supervisors, all the coworkers are very nice

◆ There is no overtime pay. When things get busy, or when a supervisor assigns an urgent task too late for you to leave, you can only stay behind and work for free

◆ During the interview, the expected salary is cut first, then cut again during the probationary period. After the probationary period ends, the amount originally cut will be added back. A raise after one year depends on your luck; there are not actually annual raises

◆ It is a garment OEM factory, yet it has not purchased any systems. Checking inventory, looking up historical data, calculating material usage and purchasing materials, preparing quotations... everything is done with Excel, and there are no shared folders either. Updated files are passed back and forth via WeChat. Data is also checked entirely by eye: item numbers, purchase quantities, usage, everything. I recommend organizing a group purchase of lutein with your coworkers.

◆ Adobe and Office are both pirated

◆ You will not have your own email account. The accounts are reused from previous employees, so when you leave, the contents of the email account you used will also be visible to the next person

◆ There is no training whatsoever. You are given a computer filled with the previous employee’s files and expected to teach yourself from them, or think of questions and ask the supervisor. You cannot work according to your own ideas; you have to do things their way

◆ There is a birthday celebration once a month. Everyone gathers around, awkwardly sings “Happy Birthday,” claps, and eats cake as if paying respects to the deceased

◆ What position you get depends on luck. Some monitors are extremely small and have severe ghosting, making it feel like you are working with antiques

◆ The company has no IT department. If the hardware or software breaks down, you can only fend for yourself

◆ The factory has no production-control staff. All the factory’s problems have to be handled remotely: even though you are not on-site, you still have to solve their problems and give them instructions to carry out

◆ The supervisor does not understand clothing, but the factories still have to listen to him, so the production line often stops because he takes forever to make a decision

◆ The entire company is centralized under one person. Every department and every employee can only listen to the junior supervisor

◆ While you are on leave, the supervisor will turn on your computer to receive and reply to your emails. There is absolutely no privacy

◆ Employees are the only ones who can be at fault; the supervisor is never wrong

The company is mainly managed by two supervisors—one senior and one junior—neither of whom has a professional background in clothing. It is basically outsiders managing insiders: everyone reports their work to the junior supervisor, who then discusses it with the senior supervisor.

The senior supervisor does not pay much attention to employees, so there is not much interaction. However, if you happen to be singled out, you will be subjected to all kinds of PUA-style manipulation. Whether the conversation is positive or negative, it is conducted in a PUA-like manner. His logic when speaking is strange; he seems to have some kind of mental illness and cannot distinguish between speaking harshly and workplace bullying.

The junior supervisor mostly works according to his emotions. When he is in a good mood, he may explain a task or teach you half of something and make you guess the rest. When he is in a bad mood, he tells you to look at the previous employee’s files and figure it out yourself. Regardless of whether the mistake is at the factory, with a vendor, in shipping, or anywhere else, it will be the business staff’s fault. He will also interrogate the business staff about why it happened and insist on an explanation. You have to give him an excuse before he will stop (if the data is wrong because you did not notice it... what other reason could there be...)

Relying entirely on manual paperwork creates a risk of errors, but the company is unwilling to improve. It absolutely refuses to buy a system, refuses to reduce the risk of errors, and will not even hire an IT person to write a program.

The overall work model is like a group of assistants handling the paperwork for various brands for an executive assistant, who then consolidates it for the business staff. The comparison is apt because “everything” has to be reported to the junior supervisor. He then asks the senior supervisor, and we have to wait through layer after layer before receiving the next instruction and continuing. We cannot make decisions or handle matters independently, and are not even allowed to have our own ideas; otherwise, the junior supervisor will scold us. Even when an issue has already been resolved, he will bring it up again and criticize the approach for differing from what he had in mind. It is an extremely inflexible work environment—very suitable for robots.

There is extremely serious information hoarding between the supervisors and employees. For the most part, only the two supervisors discuss matters and know what is going on. Employees can only wait for instructions. If there is a misunderstanding or you try to handle something differently, you will be scolded, and you will learn absolutely nothing about the business work. The supervisors also beg customers for orders in a completely subservient way, so you learn nothing about negotiation or communication skills. Yet they are extremely contemptuous toward vendors, ordering very small quantities while making unreasonable demands—it is downright embarrassing.

The factory production line does not consistently make products for the same customer or style. After finishing a snow jacket for Brand A, it may immediately make a raincoat for Brand B. The workmanship requirements and methods are different, so every time a new style goes into production, the workers have to readjust. The same thing happens again the following year, and the quality remains terrible and cannot improve.

QC is even worse. There have been cases where supposedly good products reached customers, and the customers’ QC found problems in more than half of them: buttons falling off, uneven leg lengths, excess fabric caught in the stitching of finished products... unbelievably ridiculous.

The supervisor inflates the stated material usage to customers and actually purchases very little material, apparently intending to line his own pockets. However, all of this is done in employees’ names when emailing customers and placing orders. Once the customer discovers it, he steps forward to explain that it was the employee’s problem (????

In recent years, the company’s orders have tended to decrease year by year, and it has been unable to recover even in the post-pandemic era. Unless your family is rich, or you simply want to experience life as a corporate wage slave, there is no reason to interview or work here. If you want to learn any job skills or have a comfortable retirement job, do not get your hopes up.