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The following is a true account based on personal experience, with absolutely no exaggeration or falsehood:
1. The company seriously enables bullying of contract employees (details below)
During the interview, they said there would be a six-month probation period (HR indicated that I would be made a permanent employee). After six months, they said nothing and did nothing. I repeatedly asked my supervisor, but only got “I’ll ask about it.” After another six months, they finally replied (by then I had worked there for a year): “You’re still a contract employee. Unless there is an announcement that you’ve been made permanent, you’re still a contract employee whose contract will be renewed.”
(Two year-end bonuses were issued during this period. The first time, they said: “You’re not a permanent employee yet.” The second time, they said: “Your contract was renewed, so you’re still not a permanent employee.”)
2. They don’t review performance; bonuses are given according to the boss’s mood
The system is chaotic, and the performance management form is merely decorative. Contract employees are still expected to do a pile of work, yet receive no year-end bonus, no health checkup, and no bonus—let alone an interview to negotiate a raise. While all permanent employees are happily discussing raises and receiving year-end bonuses during the New Year period, contract employees still have to take on work from other departments. Personnel transfers are made without asking whether you agree, and even an S rating on the performance form does not result in a larger bonus (contract employees even have to write a goal management form for negotiating their year-end bonus; the fact that this is required is itself a huge “what the heck?” moment.jpg).
Conclusion:
I very much do not recommend signing a contract as an employee of this company, because doing so will give you a profound appreciation of how difficult it is to make money. You will finally understand how moving those words by Lai Kung-teh were; every night, they will make you shed bitter tears, leaving you desperate to renew your contract for several more years.