Workplace reviews and discussion: 太古華電實業股份有限公司

I can't think of any advantages; at most, the office atmosphere is fairly harmonious.

To future newcomers who want to apply for an office position:

I suggest you apply somewhere else.

The base salary is 23K; everything else is added through bonuses.

Every month, you have to go out to handle preliminary inspection duties. What are preliminary inspection duties?

It means you have to inspect the site, starting from the basement level,

and find engineers to take photos. The engineers will even say, “Wasn’t this already photographed? Why take it again?” But you have no choice but to take the photos.

You spend the entire morning walking around and standing. The only time you can sit down and rest

is that short period when you eat lunch. After eating, you have to start preparing the cameras, laptops, projectors, and so on for the afternoon.

Then in the afternoon, you start walking from the basement level all over again. Afterward, you have to inventory the equipment.

If the administrative worker assigned to work with you slacks off and doesn’t check the equipment, you can only do it yourself.

After checking the equipment, you also have to clean up the trash at the site. If it’s past six o’clock, you also have to buy dinner for everyone.

If there aren’t enough drinks, you have to go out and buy them for everyone.

The above is only the work involved in a preliminary inspection. Depending on the site location,

if it’s in Hsinchu, you have to arrive at the company before 6:30 a.m. (and it’s on a holiday).

Do you get overtime pay for preliminary inspections? Yes.

But it is calculated as your 23K base salary divided by 30 days, then divided by 8, and multiplied by the holiday-work overtime rate.

That’s right—it’s calculated based on your hourly wage. In other words, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,

you only get 1,500 in overtime pay for the day. It won’t be transferred to your bank account; it’s paid in cash.

The boss has now come up with another rule: if you don’t meet with him twice a month, your salary will be withheld and not paid.

But the problem is that the boss often delays things and makes excuses not to come to the office. Two meetings a month? I’ll say no more.

The workload is huge, the supervisors do nothing, and there is no proper training system. They enforce a senior-junior system,

with supervisors dumping all their work on newcomers. When something goes wrong, the company makes the newcomers take responsibility.

If it causes the company a loss, the newcomer is responsible for paying compensation, deducted from your salary.

The leadership assigns work to you on a whim.

They tell you to leave early and not work so late, saying you have no quality of life,

but in reality, there is so much work that you have no choice but to work overtime.

You start work at 8 a.m. and can’t leave until 7 or 8 p.m.—and that’s in the best-case scenario.

When you get sick and take leave, do you think you’ll be able to quietly rest for a day?

Not at all! The company will message you on LINE in all sorts of ways. If a client you’re responsible for calls, you have to answer questions, and so on.

You don’t get any rest at all, and you still get your perfect-attendance bonus deducted. You might as well go to work sick.

After reading the review above, if you like working from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., working overtime every day, and conducting preliminary inspections on holidays,

and you can also tolerate the boss’s chaotic management, then you really can apply.