Workplace reviews and discussion: 亞比斯包材工場股份有限公司

None at all

I happened to see that this company is hiring again. If I didn’t share this, I’d be letting myself down.

1. The work environment is dirty and disorderly; rats and insects can often be seen running around the office.

2. A typical exploitative boss who pays pitifully low wages.

3. The product is advertised as recyclable as No. 4 plastic, but in fact does not comply with regulations.

4. The managers often do not arrive until after 9 or 10 a.m., then expect you to work past regular hours just like them. There is no overtime pay, and leaving on time will get you blacklisted.

5. Meetings are often called right before overtime, last one or two hours, consist entirely of nonsense, and reach no conclusions at all.

6. Advertisements claim cooperation with many major manufacturers, but in fact they have stopped delivering to them, or deliver only a small amount. Even delivering samples is enough for them to claim that they have cooperated.

7. The boss makes grandiose promises with no constructiveness or feasibility.

8. Employees are treated with no respect and may be laid off at any time for all kinds of reasons. Some employees have even been dismissed without any reason.

9. Professional expertise is not respected; whatever the exploitative boss says goes. There are piles of ridiculous policies, as if they were playing house.

10. The entire management team consists of family members, with no management ability at all. When they make mistakes, they play dead and shift the blame to subordinate employees.

11. They often share simplified-Chinese articles about treating people kindly, yet they themselves are the most abusive and exploitative kind of boss, and do not conduct business very cleanly.

12. Basically, the base salary is always NT$22,000, and they use position allowances to bring it up to the salary discussed in the interview. In other words, the company is only willing to pay labor and health insurance contributions at the minimum-wage level. A company like this is really not worth staying at.

13. The automated equipment they claim to have developed themselves: out of 10 units, about 2 will probably break. Those 2 are merely not broken yet. After receiving customer complaints, sales staff go repair those lousy machines themselves, and they may not even repair them properly.

15. The computer assigned to you will be a secondhand computer that is 5–6 years old. If you are lucky, it will run smoothly; otherwise, you will spend most of your time waiting for MIS to fix it.

16. They will force you to go on business trips.

17. The defect rate is probably around 20–30%. Even after customer-complaint meetings, the problems still are not resolved, and next time they will continue sending customers piles of defective junk.

18. The meeting room is filled with patent books, but many of the patents are actually close to expiring. They make a slight mold modification, apply for several patents at once, and then use the number of patents to make grandiose promises to customers or shareholders.

19. The number of foreign workers throughout the company is approximately two to three times the number of Taiwanese employees, making you wonder whether you are working in Vietnam.

20. You will learn absolutely nothing. Under no circumstances should you think about joining first to learn something and then leaving to find another job.