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I was a work-study student in the Xilinx department. Company policy says that work starts at 7:20, but the supervisor requires us to be online by 7:10; otherwise, it is considered late and our performance rating is deducted. The rules there are also unreasonable in various ways. Things that originally should not have been our responsibility are changed casually, and we are told that if the SOP has been changed, we must follow it. Even when taking annual leave or special leave, we are not allowed to use it; they say we cannot take leave because there are not enough staff. Honestly, how is that my problem? Taking one day off results in the entire performance bonus being deducted. Originally, the staffing ratio was 1:4, but they deceived us into joining and then the supervisor kept relentlessly instilling strange values in us. While supervising us as work-study students, the supervisor, whose surname is Lin, repeatedly emphasized that when he previously worked here, he would enter the production line early and leave four or five hours late without reporting overtime pay. I don't know what his intention was. When it was time for us to leave the production line, a trainer also deceived us by saying that he wanted us to experience life after leaving the line early and would help us apply for make-up leave. However, he never taught us how to check make-up leave or the various types of leave. After we had been off the line for some time, someone taught me how to check, and I discovered that my make-up leave balance was zero hours. When I later raised the issue, the only response I received was, "I forgot," and the matter was subsequently dropped. The supervisor completely does not understand how the production line operates. Whenever something goes wrong, he scolds people arbitrarily. Even though the bin designation was clearly specified by the customer, the supervisor did not know this and immediately grabbed an operator and scolded them, saying that the machine was down and telling the operator to call an engineer to inspect it. When the engineer arrived, the supervisor ran away, leaving the operator to explain everything to the engineer alone—and then the operator was scolded again.