Workplace reviews and discussion: 東貝光電科技股份有限公司

There are absolutely no pros.

First, let me clarify: my original position was “(described during the application as) an overseas (but ended up being assigned domestic) sales assistant.”

I resigned after three weeks on the job.

1. The coworkers were indifferent, but not malicious; it felt like they were simply too busy to pay attention to you. The person responsible for training me had a very bad temper—whenever I asked a question, she would keep frowning and sighing, and she repeatedly said she had taught me things that she had never actually taught me. Personally, though, I don’t think she was a bad person; she was just too busy. There were also several people in the same department whom I didn’t know well, but because everyone was so busy, there was little interaction. Only one very beautiful woman from the same department took the initiative to check on me (even though our work had nothing to do with each other, she proactively taught me things and even helped me find packing materials QQ).

2. The environment was run-down, dirty, and disorderly. At the time, I was working in the office in Sanchong. The building was dark and gloomy, and several hundred people in the office shared only three women’s restrooms. It was horrifying. I don’t know what the situation was like at the Wugu location.

3. Overtime was routine. At the time, I heard from coworkers that overtime could only be exchanged for compensatory leave and could not be paid out (which is illegal), but I don’t know whether the policy was later changed to comply with the law. Make sure to ask clearly during the interview.

4. The HR representative also gave me the impression during the interview that they had no idea what was going on—or perhaps the company had failed to communicate internally. The actual job duties were different from what I had originally been told.

5. I was somewhat surprised that the sales assistant was expected to ride a scooter to the factory to pack and ship orders (and, of course, there was no gas reimbursement). Every company I had worked for before and in the following years had warehouse staff handle shipping directly, and no one around me had encountered anything like this. If the office and factory had been in the same location, that would have been one thing, but why require a sales assistant to ride to the factory to ship orders without reimbursing the gas?

6. The salary was very low—only a little over NT$20,000. I don’t know about the year-end bonus, since I left before the end of the year.

7. The turnover rate was really high, haha. On the day I resigned, I heard from the beautiful coworker mentioned earlier that “that year” (I joined around October), two or three people had already left that position before I started. In other words, three or four people had come and gone from the same position within a single year. Wonderful ^^