Workplace reviews and discussion: 勤眾興業股份有限公司

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1: When you first join, you are given plenty of resources, but once you actually receive assignments, resources become insufficient (even buying a small item is restricted, resulting in project delays).

2: After staying for a while, you find that tasks not previously handled now have to be done—for example, fixtures must be machined yourself. What is particularly unusual is that the office, production line, fixture-processing area, and tool area are not located in the same place at all. To complete a single fixture, you need to search across multiple areas, and some materials require searching everywhere to find them. Can this kind of work efficiency still be called process improvement? With unit planning in this condition, what can you actually help the production line improve?

3: Let's talk about documentation:

SOP: Any slight change in the content requires a revision, including the bill of materials. Note: SOPs must be created for two units.

Labor-hour improvement: (What is especially absurd is that using dispatched workers and counting that as an improvement, then replacing them with another batch of people, is considered effective.) There is no overall personnel training; one person is taught at a time. A trainee was given an electric screwdriver for a trial, then disappeared after half a day. Where is the efficiency?

Projects: There is no new-product development process. I have been asking the project leader for a long time, but there has been no follow-up. Then, at meetings, they suddenly ask about progress. They do not help at all and instead keep demanding things.

4: Management style of the supervisor: The supervisor works very hard and stays busy online, but does not use any leadership or management approach. They only demand that tasks be completed. Messages asking for help are useless; you have to struggle on your own outside the team. In the end, you are covered in wounds, the tasks are delayed, and it is still considered your own problem.

5: Is overtime required? Process engineers being tied to the production line is treated as a matter of course. During the day, there are unfinished rush orders, so you only start working on documentation around 5 p.m. (as mentioned in point 3). You have to finish the documents on your own. If you want to meet the required estimated schedule, you probably cannot leave before 9:30 p.m.

6: TPS: The supervisor does not even like TPS, yet subordinates who have never taken a course are still required to prepare related documents. New employees have not even figured out the system or bill of materials, but are already required to prepare those analysis documents. As with the labor-hour improvement mentioned in point 3, how can there suddenly be an idea that preparing these documents will improve things when there are no full-time personnel or proper training?

1. For those who are interested, after reading the work-sharing comments, carefully evaluate the salary you will receive. It is best if it is NT$5,000–8,000 higher than your estimate; otherwise, do not join and regret it later...

2. If you are counting on bonuses, all I can say is that they are not even as good as the hourly wage outside.