Workplace reviews and discussion: 天工精密股份有限公司

1. Ordering a boxed lunch at noon costs NT$60, with the company covering NT$40, which means lunch costs only NT$20 per day.

2. The junior supervisor often slacks off, zones out, or dozes off. While he is slacking off, he does not pay attention to what you are doing, so there is a certain amount of freedom.

The company's actual benefits differ greatly from what was stated during the interview.

Bonus system: During the interview, they said the monthly bonus would range from NT$3,000 to NT$5,000. In reality, the monthly bonus was only a little over NT$1,000, and it was often withheld. It was paid only once every two months, and there were even occasions when payment was delayed for more than two months.

Employee travel: This has not been offered for several years, so I did not enjoy this benefit during my time there either.

Working environment: The air conditioner may be older than I am. In summer, it was often so hot that I had to work while sweating. I do not know whether this has improved since I left.

Office cleaning: The office did not hire anyone to clean. Every morning, after clocking in at 8:00, everyone had to share the cleaning duties. The areas to be cleaned included the office, restrooms, the supervisor's office, the flowerbeds at the entrance, and the restrooms used by foreign workers.

Cleaning was also a mandatory duty, and the sales team leader would inspect the results. If he considered an area insufficiently clean, we had to clean it again. Male employees were also responsible for emptying the garbage from the large waste container and cleaning the container.

In summer, we had to sweep until we were drenched in sweat before we could start work each day. I often wondered whether I had joined a cleaning crew.

The sales team leader had poor work abilities, but relied on his long tenure and status as a “junior supervisor” to interfere with the work and force sales staff and assistants to work according to his preferred methods.

He also often pushed his work onto others. I repeatedly saw the team leader staring blankly at his screen or scrolling up and down on it to pass the time.

The lunch break was one hour, but we were even told that we had to report it if we wanted to leave the company premises, which meant we could not use our own lunch break freely.

In addition, more than one colleague around me resigned after repeatedly reporting that their salaries were not proportional to their workloads and receiving no response. Only then was the company willing to offer some additional bonus to persuade them to stay.

This was an extremely passive approach: the company was unwilling to proactively consider employees' needs unless things reached the final breaking point. Salaries were very rigid. After asking colleagues who had worked there for several years, I learned that there was basically no possibility of a raise.

One colleague who resigned after the Lunar New Year was even summoned for an interview with a senior company executive, who made astonishing remarks such as criticizing them for leaving after receiving the year-end bonus, calling them too pragmatic, and saying, in effect, that the company could hire someone else anyway because it had money.

When I resigned, I raised the above issues regarding cleaning, the monthly bonus, and the junior supervisor, but received no indication that they were being taken seriously or that the company was willing to take steps to improve them.

All I can say is: everyone, please choose carefully.