Workplace reviews and discussion: 冠圓科技有限公司

The restroom is very clean

I'll be honest: this is a problematic job. I'm leaving anyway.

Or rather, I was notified that my employment would not be renewed after the end of January.

First, I should explain that they say they hire you on month-to-month contracts, and you can only work if they sign a contract with you. Seriously, haha.

During the interview, I interviewed for a production control assistant position, but they use a scattershot approach, saying things like, “We’re only hiring one person,” and “There are still openings for such-and-such positions. Would you like to give it a try?” In short, I somehow ended up in this position in a daze.

I still remember coming to work on my first day full of aspirations for this job. I worked especially hard and seriously. I didn’t expect to learn anything particularly difficult or advanced right away, but according to the information on 104, the actual work didn’t match the description. Most of what I did was work in the warehouse materials-issuing area: either counting screws, counting and moving materials, or looking for quality-control inspection reports from several years ago. I remember the person training me once said, “Our position doesn’t really use the system much,” so, honestly, I had no idea what the job responsibilities were, and there was no regular daily work—unless moving things counts.

The person training you will definitely be called “陳x樺.” As soon as I started working, people from other departments kept asking me how it was going and whether I would be able to keep doing it. On top of that, the security guards kept saying that the previous employees had lasted two or three days, and sometimes even just one day. All of this convinced me that this job was a terrible one.

The reason is the person training you, that Ms. Chen. She seems like the kind of person who particularly enjoys hating women while favoring men. At every job, people say, “If you don’t understand, ask more questions,” but whenever I asked, Ms. Chen would always say, “You’ll know once you’ve looked at it long enough.” I’ve looked at it until now and still don’t understand it. Maybe, like Ms. Chen, I need nine years of looking at it before I can understand it. In hindsight, I feel that she herself doesn’t understand the principles. In addition, she seems like the kind of person with little education who somehow clung on and gradually worked her way up. People like this are usually afraid of being replaced, don’t want to hand over their authority to others, and don’t know how to teach people. Even if they want to teach, they can’t explain it clearly. They also won’t tell you what they want you to do, because they never intended to teach you in the first place.

When assigning a task, she also tells you the next steps only after you finish the first step. But when the result differs from what Ms. Chen had in mind, she says, “Don’t you think something feels wrong? Why didn’t you ask?” Seriously, haha. Recently, I’ve been replacing files. The first time, she only said “replace,” and after I finished, she said “sort them.” After I sorted them, she said, “Put the master sheet at the very front, in the first position.” So I kept doing the replacing simply because she didn’t want to tell me everything at once. After only three days at work, I already wanted to quit. But because jobs are hard to find, I planned to hold out until after the New Year. Instead, I was told my contract would not be renewed.

When I encountered difficulties while learning and asked questions, she answered, “You’ll know once you’ve looked at it long enough.” I asked another question and said, “So I’ll also know this one after looking at it long enough?” She actually replied confidently, “Yes.” Seriously, haha. So apparently it took her nine years of looking at it before she understood it.

Today (1/15), while I was at work, she gave me some documents to scan. She insisted on taking two of them out and then said, “Scan these for me.” I asked her whether it was only those two, and she said, “No, listen to me. Scan these two, and scan the other stack too.” I was seriously confused. Couldn’t she have just said directly that the whole stack needed to be scanned? She had to make it so complicated. I really don’t understand.

Also, this position requires you to prepare material-issue forms for a bunch of departments for no apparent reason. Even though there is a procurement and warehouse department within the company, each department still has to handle its own purchasing, price comparisons, receiving, shipping, and inventory counting. This position provides an all-in-one service: you practically have to know how to do what every department does, because that makes it easier to provide support. Occasionally, you even have to listen to the cleaning lady and help with cleaning, haha.