Workplace reviews and discussion: MStar_晨星半導體股份有限公司
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1. The leadership lacks integrity. Before the company went public, the general manager promised employees that all retention shares would be distributed over three years. However, one year after the IPO, department-level managers were instructed to ask these long-serving employees to sign new contracts extending the distribution period by one year, effectively cutting one year of their dividends.
2. Unreasonable schedules are set and subordinates are required to meet them, yet the necessary staffing is not provided. Whenever additional staff are requested, the request is either rejected or reduced by 30%. For work of the same nature, M has twice as many employees as m, but m still refuses to add staff.
3. Overtime cannot be requested on short notice. A supervisor must first submit a request to the department-level manager in advance. Only after the department-level manager approves it, and the scheduled time arrives and overtime is actually worked, may the employee apply for overtime.
If the department-level manager does not approve it, but you still work overtime because you cannot finish the work, you cannot claim overtime pay. Moreover, even if the department-level manager approves it, you must fill out a work-hours record form to claim overtime pay, documenting what the employee doing overtime worked on each hour.
If you apply for evening overtime from Monday to Friday, you can only apply for overtime starting after 20:00. In addition, the work-hours record form must be filled out starting from when you enter the company at 9:00 a.m. Missing even one hour will result in HR rejecting the submission. Usually, however, the rejection comes a month later, by which time you no longer remember what you entered.
4. Overtime pay is difficult to claim, but the boss looks at working hours when evaluating performance. This has led to the strange phenomenon of many people chatting at night just to pad their hours, or even going home for dinner and coming back in the middle of the night to swipe their cards. Those who properly finish their work and go home are instead rated lower than people who game the system by manipulating their swipe times.