Workplace reviews and discussion: 資通電腦股份有限公司

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I was placed in a temporary position at a wafer manufacturing company in Hsinchu, one of Taiwan’s leading companies. For an unfounded reason, they decided not to continue the assignment. They had someone from sales deceitfully lure me out of the science park to a Starbucks under the pretense of having a chat. Then they said that work depends on fate, that the company would arrange another placement elsewhere, and that I no longer needed to return to the office. They said my personal belongings would be packed up and shipped to my home. Later, I learned that the company treated temporary workers in the same way. I suspect the reason was that they had previously used crude methods to drive people out and had faced retaliation at work, which led them to develop this habit of treating people as if they were guarding against thieves.

If you feel that a client-site environment, no matter how large and powerful the company, is oppressive like a military hierarchy—with the possibility that a supervisor might become unhappy at any time and have your temporary assignment terminated and replaced—and that they will use the method described above to make you leave the client’s facility that same day without giving any reason, merely telling you that work depends on fate and expecting you to swallow it, then go ahead.