Workplace reviews and discussion: 樺美食品股份有限公司

Talking nonsense and listening to the on-site staff badmouth others and gossip behind their backs. If you enjoy gossip, this is the best place for you.

The disadvantages should be common knowledge to anyone who has worked there. If you are not sufficiently scheming or thick-skinned, do not go in. If you are unfortunate enough to join, please reset your IQ to zero, pretend to be deaf and mute, and play dumb when the old aunties and a large group of gossipy women are spreading rumors and badmouthing others or flattering those in positions of power. Do not participate; participating will not benefit you. There is basically no promotion system for entry-level staff. Most supervisors are a bunch of useless people who should not hold their positions. When something goes wrong, they only look for the most junior operators and on-site workers to take the blame, constantly shift responsibility, and the top boss only listens to one person's side of the story. Many supervisors also scold people without distinguishing right from wrong.

I dreamed that I had worked there before. During peak season, you had to work at least 12 hours a day. Company policy said that supper would be provided for overtime extending past 10 p.m. Strangely, many coworkers had worked overtime countless times but had only seen supper once or twice. The salary issue was even more outrageous. The company said that because it did not provide meals, a meal allowance was included in the base salary. However, after receiving the pay slip and doing the math myself, I found that it was not included at all. Based on the base salary listed on the pay slip, it did not meet the government-mandated minimum wage. They actually used meal allowances, transportation allowances, and various other items to disguise this. The key point was that they provided neither meals nor any allowance.

The company's treatment of foreign workers was also extremely inhumane and unreasonable. They had no choice regarding their right to choose shifts. During peak season, the company had to add night shifts to all production lines because no Taiwanese workers wanted to take night shifts. Night-shift workers were not given any additional pay, so no Taiwanese workers wanted to do them. As a result, foreign workers were forced to take night shifts on the production lines. Without any additional pay, Taiwanese workers had the right to choose, while foreign workers did not. This is racial discrimination and, even more, inhumane and unreasonable treatment.

The number of on-site workers on each production line has also been continuously reduced. For example, one job was initially handled by five people, then reduced to four, even though staffing was already extremely tight, and is now down to three. This is simply exploiting the workers.

I dreamed that when I was working there during the four-person period, I almost fainted on-site. Afterward, a hospital examination found that I was already suffering from overwork. Needless to say, the team has now been reduced to three people. This is only one example—the least serious and most insignificant form of exploitation among all the production lines—so one can only wonder how the workers on the other production lines are treated.

Because most of the company's employees are older women or middle-aged and older women with poor employment prospects, no one dares to speak up or protest against the company. The company takes advantage of this to exploit all the workers to its heart's content. Isn't this exactly what makes the best sweatshop?

Only after joining did I discover that there were still companies this outrageously unreasonable and inhumane. I left after staying for only a short time because no one dared to speak up or protest. The employees were all like frogs being slowly boiled in water, which caused the work environment to become increasingly terrible and outrageous. Not to mention how the supervisors above treated the employees below: self-righteous, fond of hearing flattery, irresponsible, and incompetent. And the aunties on-site were really fierce = = I don't know what they were so angry about = = They thought that being older entitled them to bully newcomers, and when something went wrong, they shifted the blame everywhere, spread rumors, and badmouthed people behind their backs. It wasn't just the aunties; many middle-aged and older women there were the same = =. If you are a newcomer just entering the workforce, max out your scheming skills before considering it. I would advise anyone thinking of applying to think twice. If you really intend to join, go pray at a temple and ask for better luck = =