Workplace reviews and discussion: 力成科技股份有限公司

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1. The DP and EN stations on the fourth floor of the P9 plant are really awful. There aren't many MEs here. Before another new hire and I joined, there was only one ME per shift, and sometimes one or two foreign workers would help shoulder most of the ME workload. More than a year ago, after the other new hire and I joined, it became two MEs on each of the two day shifts, but the night shift still had only one ME. So staffing is extremely tight, and the managers above aren't capable enough to add more people. There are many machine conversions at the DP station—on average, three to four machines need conversion every day. A major conversion takes two hours, and a minor one takes an hour. The previous MEs would directly leave the conversions to the foreign workers, and when it came to machine repairs, they would only come out of the office to handle them if the foreign workers couldn't fix them. Later, there was only one foreign worker, but the workload increased because machines kept coming in, making conversions and repairs more frequent. Although the EN station doesn't require conversions, the machines are terrible. Whenever all the EN machines are running, you basically may have to remain on standby at the production line all day. It's common to be called to repair a machine halfway through a conversion, and then have two or three more machines needing repair halfway through the repair you were doing. But if you go repair the machines, the conversion will be delayed. At times like this, the entire day is exhausting and extremely tense, yet management above still thinks there is enough manpower and won't hire anyone.

2. Among my coworkers, there are both experienced employees and less experienced ones, but the other new hire and I were the least experienced when we joined at the same time. The coworker paired with the other new hire had been there for four or five years and apparently took it for granted that new hires should do everything first, supposedly so they could learn more and faster. After the new hire had been there for more than half a year and had learned almost everything, that senior coworker still did nothing—neither conversions nor repairs—unless the new hire couldn't handle it, in which case they would come out to help. The coworker paired with me also encountered roughly the same situation as the other new hire at first and often dumped conversions and repairs on me. However, that coworker had only joined three or four months before I did, and their professional ability was seriously inadequate. Whenever a machine required mechanical maintenance, disassembly, or reassembly, or there was a problem with the electrical control wiring or motor drive, they still had to ask me how to repair it. Someone like that even had the nerve to slack off. I tolerated it for more than a year before reporting it to my supervisor. The supervisor asked, “Why didn’t you say anything earlier?” and now wants to brush me off by telling me to prioritize the bigger picture. If I didn’t report it before, aren’t I reporting it to you now? And I still get scolded. Then they talk this nonsense about prioritizing the bigger picture. Does prioritizing the bigger picture mean they won’t deal with my coworker slacking off and refusing to work? The shift supervisor is also the most useless of the four shift supervisors. The supervisors of the other three shifts often complain that my shift supervisor does nothing and hands a pile of machine issues over to other shifts to handle. I often need the supervisor to help me deal with work-related matters, but they don't know how to handle them either and just fob me off. My coworker is useless, the shift supervisor is useless, and the managers above are even more useless.