Workplace reviews and discussion: 華擎科技股份有限公司

1. It’s not easy to take leave, so you should be able to save quite a bit of money: It’s difficult to take extended leave at this company, and since its establishment, there have been quite a few cases of employees being called back.

Case one: An employee took honeymoon leave and was called back by General Manager Wu, who angrily berated him over the phone.

Case two: An employee’s wife gave birth. Under the Labor Standards Act, he was entitled to leave, but a senior executive angrily shouted in the work area, “Who approved this leave?” The employee was then called back the next day.

Case three: An employee took honeymoon leave and was berated by a senior executive for nearly an hour. The employee was also told to look up the Labor Standards Act—but the leave was still not approved.

Case four: At this company, leave on a Monday or Friday must be approved by a senior executive because it would result in a three-day weekend…

2. You can often see the moon when leaving work, and sometimes you can even see the sunrise~ Super awesome: The company often expects everyone to weather hard times together, so employees have to work long hours and put in overtime (without overtime pay). If you happen to be working on drawings, you can sometimes see the sunrise!

3. You can even go to the emergency room during work hours~ Pretty awesome, right?: An employee from “My Love from the Star” worked until he had to be rushed to the emergency room…

1. Professional skills are very important, and you have to perform for long hours, requiring superb acting skills; it’s a decent training center for actors.

2. Those who wear skirts are better off than those who wear pants, because at this company, leave requests from people wearing skirts are very easy to get approved, and they can even take unpaid leave while retaining their positions.

3. If you think engineers are more important than managers and earn more money, you absolutely need to change that mindset, because engineers are merely errand boys who do odd jobs and take the blame.

4. If your pedigree isn’t pure, accept your fate. If you didn’t graduate from National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, National Chiao Tung University, or National Cheng Kung University, and didn’t return from studying abroad, know your place—just focus on working overtime and selling your health! But there are exceptions~ unless you’re an award-winning actor or actress.