Workplace reviews and discussion: 社團法人中華民國全國中小企業總會

There really aren't any.

1. Reassigning duties without asking you first

I interviewed for Job A, and we had already agreed on the salary and start date. But on my very first day at work, the director told me to do Job B instead, saying that I had relevant experience and could fill in for now, and that they would let me return to Job A after they interviewed someone for Job B.

However, they kept interviewing people for Job A, and no one was brought in for Job B. After sticking it out for a month, I felt that this was basically a scam. When I raised it with the team leader, the director started emotionally blackmailing me in all sorts of ways, saying that he had put a lot of effort into personally training me and that I apparently didn't know what I should be learning. I applied for Job A during the interview—I never intended to do Job B. Why would I want to learn how to do Job B just because you taught me?

It wasn't until I made up my mind to resign that the director transferred me back to Job A, but by then it was too late.

2. Favoring men over women

A male coworker in the same unit, doing the same job, with the same educational and professional background as me, was paid a full NT$10,000 more than I was. After discovering this, I talked to the director because I wanted to know what the problem was. Was my work performance poor? The director said that my performance was worth 70 points, while everyone else's was barely 60. I asked, then why is my salary so low? The director said that the coworker was a man and married, and had a family to support. Okay, I was genuinely speechless and decided to resign.

3. Using your qualifications to claim a high personnel budget while paying you very little

A week before resigning, I discovered while organizing documents that the project had claimed a monthly personnel expense of NT$43,000 using my name, while my salary was only NT$31,000. Hmm, very fair. Fortunately, I decisively quit.

4. The bad habit of stubbornly refusing to leave work

Everyone stubbornly stayed late and didn't claim overtime pay. They all waited until the director left before leaving themselves. When the director was about to leave, he would still hypocritically tell everyone to go home early. But once, when I left as soon as my workday ended, the director stopped me and said, “You’re leaving without saying goodbye to everyone?”

5. 24-hour LINE group bombardment

At 11 p.m., they would @ you and demand that you answer the supervisor’s questions; at 7 a.m. on weekdays, they would @ you to ask whether you had finished setting up the projector. If you didn't reply while commuting, you would be bombarded with relentless @ mentions. At one meeting, the director even said directly, “If you feel that you don’t want to work or check LINE on weekends, then this job isn’t suitable for you.”

6. Really liking to pry into your private life

They were always asking you to attend weekend gatherings and bring your boyfriend, saying that if you didn't have a boyfriend, you should come anyway to “meet people.” If you said your boyfriend was abroad, they would still ask you to show everyone photos. If you said you weren't comfortable, they would pretend to be concerned and ask, “Why isn't it convenient?” Finally, I pulled out the ultimate retort and said that my boyfriend was married and I was his mistress, so that was why it was inconvenient—and only then did they shut up. (In fact, I didn't have a boyfriend, but what business is it of theirs whether I have one or not?)