Workplace reviews and discussion: 裕美國際有限公司

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1. The job duties did not match the interview description.

2. In the very first week of employment, employees were required to double their performance targets.

3. The boss likes to claim that he was a professor at National Taiwan University for 12 years, that he wrote the proposal for a major corporation, and that his business management methods are the best in the world.

4. Instructions are constantly reversed, the boss has an extremely volatile temper, and he is highly chauvinistic (example: when an employee asked about menstrual leave, the boss impatiently replied that he did not understand why women needed menstrual leave and asked, “Is it really that uncomfortable?” He also often tells female employees that if women do or do not do certain things, their future husbands will look down on them, and makes similar comments).

5. Overtime is mandatory under a responsibility-based work system. Employees must work overtime at home or at the company on holidays, and must work 1–2 days during extended holidays, all without overtime pay.

6. There is no year-end bonus, no clear promotion system, and no bonuses for the three major traditional holidays. Apart from salary, there are no additional bonuses of any kind (the boss’s explanation: “It depends on performance”).

7. The boss likes to make sarcastic remarks about employees’ educational backgrounds and experience (e.g., “My former assistant graduated from xx Private University. Why can’t you, as a graduate of xx National University, do it?”)