Workplace reviews and discussion: GARMIN_台灣國際航電股份有限公司

The company’s benefits and leave arrangements are very good. Employees are not made to work excessive hours, and overtime is not excessive either! Some recreational facilities are provided so employees can relax and exercise! The two-week new-hire training is also very considerate, and night-shift employees can receive two meals. Not every company can do that! There are no various hassles involving handovers with other shifts.

When you ask the shift leader a work-related question, they become impatient after the first time, and by the second time they act as if they want to kill you! Even if you are just a new employee, even if you sincerely want to do your job well, and even if you have a good attendance record and cooperate normally! Since the shift leader is impossible to communicate with, you have no choice but to ask your coworkers. If you make a mistake, you will be blamed for not asking the shift leader and instead asking a coworker who may have wanted to set you up! Because they are rushing to meet the pace, one person has to do the work of two or three people, so there is no patience at work. Whether it is your first time or you are simply unfamiliar with the task, if you cannot keep up, you are stupid! If you cannot understand what the shift leader is trying to express, you are hopelessly foolish! If QC audits you and finds something that does not meet standards, it is your problem—there is no excuse that nobody taught you! Some shift leaders clearly treat local and foreign employees differently. Their tone with local employees is always as if they have been struck by lightning, while everything is “OK” for foreign employees—unless you are very lucky and are that shift leader’s favorite. The shift leaders also have their own conflicts with one another, and if you are not careful, you can get caught in the crossfire. Perhaps because of this atmosphere, it is also difficult for coworkers to demonstrate team spirit. Work is merely about meeting targets, finishing the task, and avoiding being scolded; yield rate is secondary.

You need to be strong-hearted and able to endure whatever comes your way in order to keep going here.

Once you leave, you cannot return, even if the personnel management may become more mature in the future.

These are my past experiences working the night shift in Linkou.