Workplace reviews and discussion: 湛揚科技股份有限公司

Freewheeling style!! (The policies change every month.) The company won’t put too much pressure on you! (Because it will make you pressure yourself.) The boss is very nice! (The boss will never admit that he is wrong.)

In this family business, everything is decided by the boss’s relatives. Today they want you to do it this way; tomorrow, that way; the day after tomorrow, neither this way nor that way will be right. If your heart isn’t strong enough, you won’t be able to handle the job. Even if it is strong enough, you still won’t want to handle it. If you fail to meet the target, you’re doomed—they deduct it from your salary. If you meet the target, that’s only to be expected, so they raise the numbers and make sure you can never reach them, saving on bonuses.

The boss won’t require you to work overtime, but leaving work late may earn you bonus points. The boss won’t require you to work on holidays, but if he finds out you went out for fun on a holiday, it may count against you.

Everything is done with only the family’s business interests in mind. If they earn 10 dollars, they take out only 1 dollar to distribute and put the other 9 dollars in their own pockets. They only put on a show: one second the boss says, “I’m willing to listen to your opinions,” and the next, he lets those opinions go in one ear and out the other, ignoring them as usual.

Advice for friends who are currently looking for jobs:

The turnover rate is frighteningly high. Having 15 people resign within three months is routine, but the boss doesn’t care—there are always more people to find—so they are recruiting all year round.