Workplace reviews and discussion: 微眾科技服務有限公司

Chatting with colleagues

Long working hours, with unpaid gaps in between; basically staying in the office from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

You also have to work overtime on holidays. The administrative staff say that if you want to earn more money, you can come in, but you can also choose not to. However, the supervisor wants you to come in, and it is supposedly something we negotiate with the supervisor ourselves—in other words, they want to distance themselves from the issue of overtime pay. (That is, there is no overtime pay.)

The salary is NT$26,000. For the number of hours and the experience involved, even a convenience-store clerk earns more.

Both the owner and the supervisor are from mainland China. They operate a mainland Chinese livestream platform, portraying and explaining stock-market “teachers” and getting investors to follow the teacher in buying A-shares.

Our work was:

1. In chat rooms with several thousand people, only about five colleagues were actually speaking, using bots under different nicknames to respond to the teacher and activate the chat room.

2. The supervisor had us create a virtual character of a third-party person from mainland China, chat with some investors on WeChat, and portray the teacher as highly capable so that investors would follow the teacher in buying A-shares to make money.

The A-share part seemed normal, and investors would indeed make money, for about two months.

Later, the teacher would give various reasons, saying that the A-share market was bad and that they should switch to Hong Kong stocks, which would “definitely make money.”

Investors who had benefited from A-shares earlier would also feel that this was a good opportunity.

At the same time, colleagues would tell the deceived investors on WeChat things like:

consider whether to trade Hong Kong stocks or whether they had already opened an account and were waiting for the teacher’s instructions to buy Hong Kong stocks, and so on.

Investors who believed them would open accounts and wait for the teacher’s instructions to buy a certain stock. Hong Kong stocks use T+0 settlement; after all the investors had bought in and invested their money,

they would make the stock plunge the very next day.

When I worked there, they had just entered the final stage. At that time, the stock was Yongqin; you can look it up.

After roughly understanding and confirming what was going on behind the scenes, I resigned and left.