Workplace reviews and discussion: 艾訊股份有限公司

The interview process is efficient; applicants are not kept waiting too long between the interview and receiving notification.

Salaries are paid on time and are never delayed.

The job posting for the Beitou factory states working hours of 08:00–17:00, but in practice employees must arrive early, at 7:45–7:50, to attend the morning meeting on time every day. Employees cannot leave promptly at 17:00; they have to finish packing up for several minutes before going downstairs. Managers actively retrieve entry and exit records and overtime hours to monitor whether approved employees and their departments are working diligently. Employees who leave later and frequently work overtime are considered to be the ones actually doing their jobs.

People who are capable can finish their work during working hours; those who lack ability have to rely on overtime to earn overtime pay. This also increases the operating costs of the parent factory and reduces the profit distributions received by other employees.

Mobile phones cannot be brought into the factory building:

Everyone has family members or children, and no one can predict when an emergency might occur that would require requesting a phone from a supervisor. A family member could suddenly be involved in a traffic accident, or a child could have an accident at school. If the police or school then need to notify the parents or relatives, the rule prohibiting phones in the factory building could cause delays in reporting the incident. Can the company bear responsibility for this?

Tea and water cannot be brought into the factory building:

The employee cafeteria is on the first floor. During a short 10-minute break, production workers cannot possibly run to the first floor to drink water. Occasionally, employees bring bottles filled with purified water and place them in storage lockers in the restrooms on their floor, but there are also self-appointed busybodies who report and provide evidence of this.

This makes new employees feel that only office workers on the first floor are treated as people who are allowed to drink water or coffee, while employees on other floors are not considered people and do not need water or refreshments to sustain them through heavy labor.

Production workers, inspectors, and material preparers must be able to stand for long periods and cooperate with unreasonable overtime demands from the production line:

There are insufficient personnel for incoming-material preparation, production schedules are often arranged improperly, and production workers are inefficient. When shipments are delayed, the company then scrutinizes whether the downstream inspection unit is willing to work overtime and uses this as an excuse to shift blame. No matter how many things go wrong, the final packaging and inspection teams are blamed.

The company also does not look for professional industrial engineering (IE) engineers to establish standard working hours and plan the factory layout when production workers are inefficient. It only wants to save money by having process engineers (PEs) also perform IE work, using one person as several. When the production unit falls behind schedule, the person in charge only complains that there are not enough labor hours, then pressures the PEs and headquarters to provide more hours. The efficiency is extremely poor, forcing the downstream inspection unit to work overtime as well.

If production personnel make mistakes, punishments include being forced to stand and work all day, or serving as the person on duty responsible for cleaning and taking out the trash for a month. Management, from top to bottom, cannot propose constructive improvement plans. This causes the production unit to develop a habit of shifting responsibility for incidents to other departments or to the parent company headquarters’ R&D department.

The production unit frequently extends the probationary periods of hardworking operators, sometimes for as long as a year.

From top to bottom, no one reflects on whether the interviewers’ judgment or abilities are at fault, or whether management has failed to provide proper guidance and help new employees quickly become effective at their work. Instead, management is skilled at verbally insulting employees and then using probation extensions to treat employees as disposable labor and exploit their work.

People who work efficiently, believe that today’s tasks should be completed today, or often finish their assignments within eight hours should consider this opportunity carefully. Those with poor work efficiency who want to earn overtime pay and make superiors perceive them as hardworking may consider this a suitable option.

It is suitable for applicants with high stress tolerance who are skilled at drinking and flattering or ingratiating themselves with others. In addition, people with cardiovascular disease who may need to be transported to the hospital by ambulance should not apply.