Workplace reviews and discussion: 三久股份有限公司

(Shanghai position)

1. The relationships among colleagues are fairly good.

(Shanghai position)

1. The salary is very low: RMB 8,000 (before tax), approximately equivalent to NT$36,000. (3–5 years of work experience, master’s degree)

2. The vice president is the boss’s daughter. It is a traditional-industry family business dominated by a powerful extended family. She has little ability, only knows how to scold people, and never reflects on whether her own policies are wrong.

3. Because every department is too afraid of the vice president, any mistakes are either concealed or passed off onto someone else.

4. The company only provides RMB 3,650 per year for airfare, approximately equivalent to NT$16,425 per year (extremely little).

You should check whether a Shanghai–Taiwan flight during the Lunar New Year costs more than NT$20,000. Any extra cost has to be paid out of pocket.

Does that mean you can only go back once a year?

5. Excessive overtime. The regular hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., but the finance, procurement, and human resources departments, unlike sales, have to work until 10:00 p.m. They also have to work on Saturdays.

The vice president will demand that things get done. (Makes no logical sense.)

6. Many people at the plant have worked there for 10 or 20 years. The vice president often finds reasons to dismiss regular employees and hire outsourced temporary workers. Sometimes the temporary workers do not return after working just one day, and the skilled workers are also frustrated because they have to train new hires every day. As a result, Sanjiu’s quality is seriously questionable.