Workplace reviews and discussion: 梧濟工業股份有限公司

Lunch is provided without deducting meal costs

A small monthly perk of NT$100

One afternoon tea

There is no integrity to speak of when it comes to HR

Interviewed around May 20

Was told it would be a regular schedule, with two days off every week.

However, overtime is required, exceeding the 46 hours stipulated by the Labor Standards Act (which I personally can accept)

Occasionally required to work on Saturdays

Reported for work on June 1, and on June 1X it was announced that shift work would be implemented in mid-July

All I could think was “E04,” cursing nonstop

In practice, half-day overtime on Saturdays is regularly required every week

Occasionally assigned to work a full day

After the shift system was implemented in mid-July, they then claimed that Saturdays would require regular work in the future, with compensatory leave on Mondays instead (this has not yet been implemented at the Zhangbin plant, so I don’t know what will happen in the future)

The eventual result was that everyone who had completed their required period quickly left

During my time there, I only heard of one person who had stayed longer than me and had not received a raise after completing three months

When someone submitted a resignation, the company offered a NT$2,000 raise

However, they resigned not long afterward anyway

I also did not receive a raise after completing three months

I asked the on-site supervisor whether the company had submitted a raise request for me

The response was not very pleasant either (roughly, that my work was not very important to the company and was not particularly technical)

I suddenly understood everything: those experienced employees who resigned had great wisdom (when they initially advised me to resign, I dismissed it as them talking nonsense)

As soon as I mentioned resigning, HR came over to comfort me and said that a raise had been approved, but the paperwork was just delayed

Basically, I did not really believe it. They were so inefficient, and every raise was signed off late; besides, there were also people who had been there longer than me who had never received a raise

New employees are at their most motivated during the first four months. Without a raise, morale drops, and it is not exactly a comfortable job either: a stuffy, hot factory, foul-smelling cutting fluid, and one person being made to do the work of two or more. I walked about 12,000 steps at work every day—my legs were completely worn out

So I resigned and came here to vent

Also, the new employees who reported for work in early October still do not know that the company requires shift work

Those who are short on money and can handle hard work can try it short-term. Until the staff is fully hired, there is plenty of overtime

Once the staffing is complete, they will switch to a shift system

However, there are many violations of the Labor Standards Act on-site, such as operating a forklift without a license and operating an overhead crane without a license