Workplace reviews and discussion: 泛亞國際文化科技股份有限公司

I am a former employee who resigned from this company. I remember that I did not work there for a full year (reviewing the warehouse management position in Sanjiao Village, Shengang District, Taichung).

The advantages can be divided into two areas: the manager and the job content.

As for the manager here, if it is still Manager Lin, who has not been replaced, he is very kind and patient. Unless you make a very serious mistake, he will patiently teach you the job duties. He is also quite tolerant when mistakes occur.

I remember one time I misread a shipping document and sent out the wrong books. He simply said that it could be dealt with and that I should pay more attention next time.

Regarding the job content, this publisher mainly handles books sold as boxed sets (complete sets packed box by box). The office gives you the overall shipping list and each customer's order documents (approximately four to six times a day; each time they give you documents, they call it a “wave”). You then take the goods out of the warehouse according to each wave's overall shipping list and pack them separately according to the customers' documents.

The work is generally similar every day and does not change much. Except during the Taipei International Book Exhibition (I remember it being around March or April?) and warehouse inventory-taking (around New Year's Day), this position almost never requires overtime.

The disadvantages can be divided into four areas: overtime pay, the factory environment, the boss, and colleagues.

Regarding overtime pay, the company always provides compensatory leave instead of overtime pay. However, you receive as much compensatory leave as the overtime you work. (It also depends on how seriously you work. I remember working several hours of overtime during the book exhibition, and the manager directly counted it as a full day of leave for me.) So I think this is acceptable.

As for the factory environment, because it is a sheet-metal factory, it gets somewhat hot there in summer. Although there are electric fans in the shipping area, people who do not tolerate heat well should still take note.

As for the colleagues, I want to say first that this may be somewhat biased. I may not be very good at socializing. If the staff there have not changed much, the middle-aged woman responsible for miscellaneous financial matters is somewhat of a gossip and likes to discuss private matters. More sensitive people may feel uncomfortable (not everyone likes to chat).

As for the boss, he was the personal reason I left. I was laid off, and according to what I heard, it was because the boss felt that I did not respect him enough and did not look at him and recognize him immediately (there was backlighting at the time, so I could not see clearly and thought he was an outsider). In addition, someone in the office maliciously badmouthed me, saying that I had a harsh attitude toward people (this left me with a very poor impression of the office before I left...). The boss then decided to lay me off immediately...... In short, people who are not very good at socializing should be a little careful if they want to apply. The boss may be somewhat thin-skinned, and the colleagues may be somewhat scheming (excluding the manager and the youngest order-entry clerk, if she has not resigned yet).