Workplace reviews and discussion: 博麗彩色印刷股份有限公司

The lunch break is 1.5 hours.

The company's business mainly involves producing graduation yearbooks for schools at all levels in central and southern Taiwan (including graduation photo photography services). It also handles printed publications for government agencies or private enterprises. Its business coverage basically includes Kaohsiung and the counties and cities in central and southern Taiwan. The company bids according to public announcements from various organizations and, after winning a bid, outsources the work to printing factories. It has a basic foundation of business volume.

The company is in an old-style apartment building that is relatively run-down, and the restroom environment is not particularly comfortable.

The office does not turn on the air conditioning until 10:00 a.m. Although there are electric fans, if it gets hot, you can only endure it.

All paper, regardless of size, must be put in recycling. Paper scraps and sticky notes also cannot be thrown in the general waste.

Employees take turns cleaning, filling the water dispenser, and taking out the trash.

You cannot eat breakfast during working hours; you must finish eating before work starts.

March through May is the busy season, with working hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. You may also be required to work on Saturdays.

During the off-season, working hours are adjusted to 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You work seven hours, and one hour is credited toward the overtime hours accumulated during the busy season.

After reporting for work, you will be required to work for three days initially. If both sides feel that continuing is appropriate, you will be asked to sign a three-month short-term employment probation contract. Upon becoming a regular employee, you will sign a formal employment contract.

Regarding the portions stipulated by the Labor Standards Act, they are basically all provisions that benefit the company, and details may vary according to the company's regulations. Anyone concerned about this should ask for clarification.

Being late results in a NT$50 deduction. If you are late more than three times in a month or accumulate more than 30 minutes of lateness, you will not qualify for the perfect-attendance bonus.

You will not qualify for the perfect-attendance bonus if your actual attendance is fewer than 20 days in a month. Even if you do not take leave that month, if there is a typhoon day or national holiday and your number of attendance days does not reach 20, you will not qualify for the perfect-attendance bonus. Personal leave, sick leave, and typhoon leave are unpaid.

The company has an employee welfare committee, and an amount of money will be deducted from your salary and paid into the welfare committee fund. This is stated in the regulations but was not mentioned during the interview.

The administrative assistant's duties include preparing bidding documents for tenders and mailing them. Many tasks may pile up at the same time, so you will need to plan and manage your time well. You may need to move printed materials and attach labels to them. The quantities are usually substantial, and most of the time things are somewhat rushed (similar to attaching recipients' addresses to advertising mail we receive).