Workplace reviews and discussion: 惠朋國際股份有限公司

The colleagues at work are very nice

It’s a case of people in the same boat finding solidarity

Preamble: I saw that the previous post had been deleted

I figured I should help boost the popularity a little

Otherwise, spending more than a year there would really have been for nothing...

Here are a few points to share with everyone

1. I recently met an auntie who had just retired from Huipeng

For more than ten years, her salary was never adjusted at all. She just did hard labor and received what was called the government-mandated minimum monthly wage every month.

2. I was slightly luckier; my starting salary was 25K, which I heard is considered high there...

As for overtime pay~ it is forever baffling. No matter how it is calculated, the hourly rate never exceeds the statutory hourly wage of NT$133.

Moreover, there is a rule for regular overtime: each time, you have to work three full hours of overtime. If you don’t complete all three hours, you won’t receive any overtime pay.

3. The on-site work involves standing for long periods, and there are absolutely no breaks on the production line.

4. There is no reward for contributions, but if you break something, you have to pay for it. The year-end bonus is pitifully small. If you take sick leave or personal leave during the year, they deduct from your year-end bonus again—deducting as much as they can, so you can have a “great” New Year.

5. There is hardly any welfare system (no birthday bonus, whether there is anything for Labor Day depends on the boss’s mood, and there is no year-end banquet. Supposedly, the banquet was canceled because of a complaint from a Japanese customer, and then the boss simply canceled it = =)

6. The company also has a special “birdman” activity. A PhD teaches you about Taiwan’s bird ecology, but I have never been able to understand why a group of people has to travel all the way to the seaside to create a carbon footprint just to go bird-watching. Apparently, this is called ecological conservation...

7. By the way, the birdman activity is the boss’s favorite. If you want to get promoted, you have to be a bit better at “flattering” and participate in more birdman activities (that’s what one plant manager said~).

8. Oh, right! Not participating in the birdman activities will affect your performance evaluation, which will also affect your year-end bonus.

9. One more thing: the birdman activities are mostly held on Saturdays, specifically to eat into your days off, and there is no pay. At most, they provide a few snacks. Also, no matter which plant you work at, you have to go to the Changbin plant to participate.

10. If you’re a recent graduate entering the workforce, don’t become so desperate that you’ll take any job.

The above is my small takeaway after spending a year and a half in hell.

I hope I can save some Taiwanese workers like me before they enter the gates of hell...