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Occasionally, the company fires up the grill, which can cover one meal (but you often have to bring your own ingredients); coffee machine; offerings for worship
(1) More and more employees are leaving the company, yet the company has not been actively looking for replacements.
(2) Employees who are not in the same department are all required to help with workloads outside their own departments.
(3) There is no overtime pay, but being late still results in deductions after just one minute, and even the perfect-attendance bonus is deducted (the bonus is NT$2,000).
(4) The company compares employees unfavorably with other companies’ staff despite differences in workload and job responsibilities, claiming that its own employees perform poorly. In reality, every employee bears an extremely large and heavy workload; even if they receive no credit, they have certainly made a great effort. Whenever the boss feels that the order volume is not high enough, colleagues are still harshly berated. Employees are expected to sacrifice their health and personal lives for work to be considered good examples (one colleague regularly works overtime until the early hours of the morning, and this is the kind of employee the boss considers outstanding).
(5) The customer-service workload is absurdly heavy. If even one sentence in an online customer-service reply is not to the boss’s satisfaction, the boss immediately calls and verbally abuses the employee mercilessly. It is no exaggeration to say that the boss will directly hurl extremely vulgar insults.
(6) When discussing how to handle remaining leave upon resignation—whether to cash it out or take it before the final day, both of which can be handled in accordance with the Labor Standards Act—the manager-owner will exploit the situation wherever possible. She will even secretly record the conversation on her phone to confirm that the resigning colleague agreed to the illegal arrangement she proposed. Is she afraid the other party will later file a complaint with the labor bureau?
(7) From beginning to end, the company has never considered that the employer should at least fulfill its basic duty of care toward employees as required by the Labor Standards Act. Instead, it demands that colleagues show responsibility by sacrificing their health and personal lives for the company.