Workplace reviews and discussion: 泰瑋電子有限公司

Wearing a uniform means you don't have to think about what to wear every day. The office was just renovated, but you have to clean it yourself.

At the beginning of this year, I was hired as a management trainee for overseas sales. After I joined, my supervisors instructed me to help with procurement. Procurement only required entering purchase orders into the system and sending them to vendors, but afterward, you were expected to handle everything. A few days after I had just taken over, I was overwhelmed with work, so I told the procurement staff member, “Sorry, I’m really overwhelmed with work right now. Could you please wait for me?”

After working there for a little over a month, I was fired one hour before the end of the workday and told that I only needed to work until that day. They said they felt I was not the kind of person their company wanted; their company wanted employees who understood teamwork and were willing to cooperate with others. They listed many reasons why they thought I was unsuitable, but added “that’s just how they felt” after each one. Later, after a long discussion, they finally mumbled that they had worked with that procurement employee for a long time and trusted her work capabilities. They also criticized me, asking how I could speak to a colleague that way—referring to what I had said to the procurement employee: “Sorry, I’m really overwhelmed with work right now.” There were also many other inexplicable things. At the time, my supervisor and colleagues had smiled and told me it was fine and that I should speak up if there were any problems. When they fired me, all those things that supposedly “weren’t a problem” suddenly became problems. Whenever I raised an issue, it turned into proof that I was not the kind of employee their company wanted. Not working overtime like other people was treated as a lack of commitment to the job. As long as they “felt” that way, that was enough; they could not point to a single concrete thing I had failed to do.

My personal advice is that if you have a good relationship with the procurement employee, you should be able to thrive here.

The above is based on my personal experience. When I was fired, I was also forced to write a voluntary resignation letter, and then immediately told to pack up my things and leave.

The above is my personal experience. Perhaps they had their own perspective, and I learned a lesson too, but whenever I think back on it, I still feel deeply wronged. If you are considering applying for a sales position at this company, please prepare yourself mentally. Besides the work itself, there are many unspoken rules among colleagues and supervisors—but perhaps I was simply not a good fit? One more thing: the pay slips are extremely unclear.