Workplace reviews and discussion: 同鈞產業有限公司

Lunch allowance: $60

There is no overtime allowance!

The company’s internal management philosophy and operating methods are inadequate and chaotic.

As a result, work procedures, production, inventory, and other matters can never be balanced.

Because this is a small, traditional family business with four generations working together, the work environment is dirty, messy, and noisy.

The older ones are harsh and unreasonable, while the younger ones shout loudly.

You have to work and interact with their entire family every day.

The business is passed from father to son; I’m not familiar with the previous generation.

As for the current owner couple I encountered, they were not very honest.

Regarding labor insurance, I only noticed that the company had not properly insured me after receiving a payment reminder for the National Pension. Strangely, the insurance premiums had been deducted from my salary previously, but I had not actually been insured. After negotiations, the employer said they would pay the National Pension portion, but later verification still showed that my insured salary had been underreported. After I resigned, I also discovered that some overtime pay had not been paid. The resignation process required filling out a pile of incomplete and inaccurate resignation applications and documents. They were simply trying to waste your time.

They habitually delay employees’ leaving time, always deliberately assigning work in the last ten or five minutes before the end of the workday. They also do not give advance notice when overtime is required.

Overtime pay and additional fees for handicraft work that employees are required to take home must be actively claimed by the employees every month, along with delivery-related expenses such as fuel allowances.

There are salary shortages every month, so you have to check your pay carefully.

As an employee, you really find it exhausting. They like to discuss work during employees’ break times or after work.

There are no breaks apart from lunch, and even then the noise prevents you from resting. When working overtime, you continue working from 5 p.m. without a break or time to eat. Just keep working. (There is no dinner allowance either.)

I joined just as summer began. The air conditioning in the owner couple’s office was set to 25°C and so strong that they wore jackets, while the room where we worked had no ventilation and we were not allowed to turn on the air conditioning. The ceiling fan was also switched off from time to time.

They said the air conditioning would only be turned on when the indoor temperature exceeded 30°C. Even when it reached 33°C, they still showed no intention of turning it on, so I couldn’t stand it and turned it on myself. I was then subjected to sarcastic remarks, such as being told that obedient employees were the ones who did not turn on the air conditioning.

The oldest one would often ask, “Aren’t you cold?” and “Do you really need the air conditioning in this weather?”

The most frightening thing was being confined in a warehouse that exceeded 40°C every day during the scorching summer with two breed dogs that had seemingly not been bathed for years. Foreign employees who were also workers had to clean up their feces and urine.

There is no personal storage space, and private belongings left at the company, such as work tools, often disappear. The company is very stingy about the small scissors used every day to trim rough edges. Employees repeatedly said they needed to be replaced, but the company kept putting it off. In the end, they simply bought a random pair at the market for 10 yuan; they could not even cut paper.

They even try to take advantage of employees over a single pen.

The owner is always late to work and leaves early, which would not matter by itself. However, regardless of whether employees are new, they immediately assign the entire workload to newcomers all at once, without giving them time to adapt or learn.

What was discussed in the interview does not match the situation after joining. Every employee has raised this issue. The workload and duties always exceed the scope of one’s responsibilities.

The bonus and year-end bonus policies are unclear. During the interview, they said there were bonuses.

After joining, I asked the older female owner and only then learned that at the end of the year the company would make excuses by saying that profits were low.

In short, there are far too many problems. Most importantly, the current person in charge is genuinely very difficult to work with: an immature young female owner who is unwilling to accept opinions and became successful too early without learning how to conduct herself.

And the exploitation of foreign workers is an even longer story.