Sinking Ship Alert: Drowning in Taiwanese Logical Black Holes and Micromanagement - Avis employé Project Coordinator StrawberryNet

Good office location, salary is paid on time every month & flexible working hours.

1. Disastrous IT department The IT team holds way too much power and is single-handedly choking the entire company. Most of them are long-serving deadwood just waiting to retire. "IT Directors" are lazy, irresponsible, and experts at shifting blame. When you ask for help, you’ll often get passive-aggressive and sarcastic responses. Even simple beginner-level dashboards are full of errors. Propose any new idea and their instant reply is “impossible.” Their arrogance is nauseating - actual knowledge are completely disproportionate to their salaries. I'm sure they would struggle badly to find another job if they ever got fired. 2. Zero privacy There is absolutely no privacy in this company. HR casually leaks colleagues’ salary, personal background, and other private information to anyone. Gossip spreads like wildfire among staff. To make things worse, the IT team can access and read your emails and Teams conversations whenever they want and spread it out. Once again, IT is the most toxic and unprofessional department here. 3. Unrealistic workload & dysfunction environment Taiwan management team has no clue how weak the Hong Kong team’s capabilities are and how terrible the local infrastructure is. They blindly apply their fast-paced, high-precision Taiwan standards here, but the reality is pathetic — outdated hardware, broken website structure, high product costs, and inconsistent quality. A large number of redundant staff are just struggling every day with no real progress. No matter how strong the management thinks they are, it’s impossible to deliver results in this rotten environment. Fully explains why there are extremely high employee turnover rate.

The Financial Miracle: The company burns millions annually with no profit insight, yet never goes bankrupt. Job security is surprisingly high, provided you don't use logic. The "Absent" Leader: The CEO is physically present but mentally uploaded to his smartphone. As long as you don't interrupt his screen time or get caught in his random PUA sessions, you are invisible.

Welcome to the anomaly. To survive your tenure here, memorize these unwritten rules: 1. The CEO’s "Screen Trance" The CEO is always looking at his phone. Walking in the hallway? Phone. In his office? Phone. In the restroom stall? Phone. The Mystery: No one knows what he is looking at. He never looks up to greet anyone. He only lowers the phone to psychologically torment (PUA) the management team during meetings, acting like an angry outsider judging a sinking ship, before returning to his screen. The Rule: If you see him staring at his device in the corridor, do not speak. Just walk around him like he's a statue. 2. The "God Mode" Surveillance Privacy on MS Teams is a lie. The Reality: We have confirmed that specific upper-management figures have administrative access to read private chat logs. The Trap: If you complain about a manager to a colleague privately, that specific manager often finds a reason to "correct" you shortly after. Paranoia is the company culture. 3. The Hunger Games (Benefits Edition) There are no team-building activities. The Mooncake Ritual: For the Mid-Autumn Festival, the company provided one single mooncake per department. Watching a team of 10+ adults trying to slice a pastry into tiny crumbs was not a celebration; it was a test of dignity. 4. The Open Secret There is a well-known office romance involving the CEO. They are the only ones exempt from the "toxic atmosphere." Love isn't blind, but to keep your job here, you definitely have to be. 5. The AI Formalism We worship AI buzzwords here. Promotions are based on how well you can perform "AI devotion," even if the business logic makes zero sense.