I am not afraid
1. Are you expecting an offer letter/contract before or at least within the first week of joining the company? Think again. Chances are, you'll never set eyes on it.
2. Without a signed contract, that means there aren't any black and white solid proof of you working there. Your employer could decide to not pay you one day and you can't even argue or sue him.
3. Again without a contract, you have no benefits, zilch. You don't know the conditions of your work there. No medical claim, no leaves, no OT, nothing.
4. Without a contract, basically means there isn't any ties between you and your supposed employer. He can fire you without giving you a valid reason and you can't do anything about it. On the bright side, it works the other way around too.
5. Alan (my jerk of an ex-boss) is a rotten to the core asshole (how smelly, literally) who has an ego bigger than Titanic, likes to make us look bad, places blame on us when it wasn't our fault, force us to labor work for him, and gives you the look of "If you don't obey my orders I will fire you now." At the same time, he is also a dog in front of clients and will lick the bottom of their shoes if he can. However, he can't because usually they don't wear shoes in the meeting room. Anyway, back to the main topic. Alan is also very sly and hides his expression very well. I actually suspect he uses botox. Just think of him as a very cheap China businessman that doesn't know how to do business. He also has really bad breath that I can smell a few feet away.
6. That was a very long point 5... continuing on, you're probably going to be hired to fire someone!! How will that make you feel? I was hired for this reason.
7. Following point 6, he probably doesn't know what you could do because he didn't even bother to finish viewing your portfolio before he hire you.
8. Alan will tell you that you're going to be on a 6-month contract. He uses the word 'contract', listen carefully, he didn't use the word 'probation', it's 'contract'. That means he don't intend to keep you permanently. I should've been more careful :/
9. Are you expecting to get reviewed, get a salary raise and get out of probation? It will never happen, you will be fired when your probation ends. He is too cheap to give you a pay raise.
10. You won't get EPF or sokso (sp? It's the government default worker insurance) because he uses the excuse of 'you are still under probation'. When in some other companies, even INTERNS have EPF and sokso. And according to people working in the EPF HQ, he could be legally sued for not giving his workers EPF.
11. With not giving all his workers any EPF, he could actually save a lot of money, and we lose alot of the money we deserve.
12. Ever heard of nice studio stories like boss buying employees dinner when they're working overtime, having gaming consoles in the studio, having annual dinners, doing Christmas gift exchange and other fun stuff like that? It will never happen in DNA Studios.
13. Concept artists will have to bring their own tablets to work, because he ain't buying you one although you need it for work.
14. According to reliable sources, there was once when his entire design team mass-resigned on him before. Is that enough to tell you that there's seriously something wrong with the company? Too bad I knew this too late.
15. Word for Interns, never ever go to DNA Studios. The only thing that they will make you do there is research. And by 'research', it means look for photo, music, texture stock and downloading them. Google will be your only best friend, you will never touch Photoshop or any other Adobe or 3D softwares or be directly involve with any projects. The only thing you will learn is how to search and download stuff.
16. Interns don't get paid in DNA Studios too. At least in my last company, small as they were, they actually pay a little money to the interns.
17. Alot of photos used for projects are illegally downloaded from the internet via google or other photo stock websites. Because they are cheap. I was actually instructed on how to omit watermarks from Corbis photo stock. It's not like I didn't try to educate them about the concept of buying their own photos too, but they just refuse to buy it.
18. The creative director is a tofu, he is also Alan's lap dog.
19. Alan also likes to waste alot of our time in extremely long meetings where he repeats whatever he says at least twice. On payday, he will ask his employees in one by one and give them long lectures, making the rest of us wait outside, and this usually only happen after work hours, so we had to stay back for no reason. He will also ask you to do stuff for the office after work hours. Like painting a graffiti on the office wall, so eventhough the artist doesn't have anything to do during office hours, he can't work on the graffiti and had to stay back really late to work on it after work hours.
20. Alan also lacks professionalism. Once we had a farewell dinner for an intern and a concept artist. Logically speaking, the 2 leaving should decide who they want to invite, since the dinner is about them. But Alan accused my producer of not inviting the other producer and our creative director, and acted like it was some serious offense. Please, the dinner was private, it's none of your business who we invite, and please don't mix personal issues with work!
I'm not locking this because I'm not bound by contract to not reveal anything about the studio to the internet. Furthermore, I am also not bound by the studio anymore. Hurrah for freedom!!! Next week, the studio will have 4 less people, although there will be 2 new employees coming in, but ooooh boy, how much they will regret working there :)
2. Without a signed contract, that means there aren't any black and white solid proof of you working there. Your employer could decide to not pay you one day and you can't even argue or sue him.
3. Again without a contract, you have no benefits, zilch. You don't know the conditions of your work there. No medical claim, no leaves, no OT, nothing.
4. Without a contract, basically means there isn't any ties between you and your supposed employer. He can fire you without giving you a valid reason and you can't do anything about it. On the bright side, it works the other way around too.
5. Alan (my jerk of an ex-boss) is a rotten to the core asshole (how smelly, literally) who has an ego bigger than Titanic, likes to make us look bad, places blame on us when it wasn't our fault, force us to labor work for him, and gives you the look of "If you don't obey my orders I will fire you now." At the same time, he is also a dog in front of clients and will lick the bottom of their shoes if he can. However, he can't because usually they don't wear shoes in the meeting room. Anyway, back to the main topic. Alan is also very sly and hides his expression very well. I actually suspect he uses botox. Just think of him as a very cheap China businessman that doesn't know how to do business. He also has really bad breath that I can smell a few feet away.
6. That was a very long point 5... continuing on, you're probably going to be hired to fire someone!! How will that make you feel? I was hired for this reason.
7. Following point 6, he probably doesn't know what you could do because he didn't even bother to finish viewing your portfolio before he hire you.
8. Alan will tell you that you're going to be on a 6-month contract. He uses the word 'contract', listen carefully, he didn't use the word 'probation', it's 'contract'. That means he don't intend to keep you permanently. I should've been more careful :/
9. Are you expecting to get reviewed, get a salary raise and get out of probation? It will never happen, you will be fired when your probation ends. He is too cheap to give you a pay raise.
10. You won't get EPF or sokso (sp? It's the government default worker insurance) because he uses the excuse of 'you are still under probation'. When in some other companies, even INTERNS have EPF and sokso. And according to people working in the EPF HQ, he could be legally sued for not giving his workers EPF.
11. With not giving all his workers any EPF, he could actually save a lot of money, and we lose alot of the money we deserve.
12. Ever heard of nice studio stories like boss buying employees dinner when they're working overtime, having gaming consoles in the studio, having annual dinners, doing Christmas gift exchange and other fun stuff like that? It will never happen in DNA Studios.
13. Concept artists will have to bring their own tablets to work, because he ain't buying you one although you need it for work.
14. According to reliable sources, there was once when his entire design team mass-resigned on him before. Is that enough to tell you that there's seriously something wrong with the company? Too bad I knew this too late.
15. Word for Interns, never ever go to DNA Studios. The only thing that they will make you do there is research. And by 'research', it means look for photo, music, texture stock and downloading them. Google will be your only best friend, you will never touch Photoshop or any other Adobe or 3D softwares or be directly involve with any projects. The only thing you will learn is how to search and download stuff.
16. Interns don't get paid in DNA Studios too. At least in my last company, small as they were, they actually pay a little money to the interns.
17. Alot of photos used for projects are illegally downloaded from the internet via google or other photo stock websites. Because they are cheap. I was actually instructed on how to omit watermarks from Corbis photo stock. It's not like I didn't try to educate them about the concept of buying their own photos too, but they just refuse to buy it.
18. The creative director is a tofu, he is also Alan's lap dog.
19. Alan also likes to waste alot of our time in extremely long meetings where he repeats whatever he says at least twice. On payday, he will ask his employees in one by one and give them long lectures, making the rest of us wait outside, and this usually only happen after work hours, so we had to stay back for no reason. He will also ask you to do stuff for the office after work hours. Like painting a graffiti on the office wall, so eventhough the artist doesn't have anything to do during office hours, he can't work on the graffiti and had to stay back really late to work on it after work hours.
20. Alan also lacks professionalism. Once we had a farewell dinner for an intern and a concept artist. Logically speaking, the 2 leaving should decide who they want to invite, since the dinner is about them. But Alan accused my producer of not inviting the other producer and our creative director, and acted like it was some serious offense. Please, the dinner was private, it's none of your business who we invite, and please don't mix personal issues with work!
I'm not locking this because I'm not bound by contract to not reveal anything about the studio to the internet. Furthermore, I am also not bound by the studio anymore. Hurrah for freedom!!! Next week, the studio will have 4 less people, although there will be 2 new employees coming in, but ooooh boy, how much they will regret working there :)