Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣YKK股份有限公司_台灣華可貴股份有限公司

The benefits are a little bit of a plus + overtime is paid

Do not go to this company under any circumstances

Do not go to this company under any circumstances

Do not go to this company under any circumstances

Taiwan is apparently the only place in the world where people work themselves to the bone (especially in Taipei), while also being paid extremely low monthly salaries (the company allegedly underreports bonuses for tax purposes). An extremely, extremely, extremely evil Taiwanese subsidiary of a Japanese company. The work atmosphere is extremely quiet and oppressive—disgusting. The job description on the HR and job-bank websites is incomplete; the “Happy Enterprise” claim is complete nonsense. Not forcing people to jump off a building would already be an achievement. They are evasive and dishonest. Japanese employees at the Taiwan branch are favored and get to throw their weight around, while Taiwanese employees are treated like slaves. There is absolutely nothing to laugh about. One person is expected to do the work of two or three people, and they refuse to hire anyone to save money. If you cannot finish the work, they say you are incompetent; if you do finish it, supervisors deliberately refuse to approve it so they can find fault with you.

Turnover rate: The turnover rate is sky-high; almost every few months, someone leaves from some department. The capable people have all left. Those who cannot leave remain, and their character and quality are usually poor—they cannot make it at other companies. The turnover rate is frighteningly high, management is low-quality, and the company is so rotten that even Google knows its reputation.

Salary: There is no probation period at all. They deliberately fire some new hires within three months, maliciously withhold the salary for regular employees, and rely on their international brand name without paying according to normal market rates. They deliberately prevent you from passing probation, keeping only inexperienced newcomers to the workforce and paying them low wages. They frequently hire large numbers of outstanding newcomers or workplace elites at extremely low salaries, then give them an excessive workload and shamelessly demand overtime, acting as though paying overtime is generous. Before the year-end bonus, you are worse off than someone earning a monthly salary of NT$30,000.

Culture: Employees who graduated from prestigious schools or have influential family backgrounds can sit beside supervisors. If they are also good-looking, the supervisor immediately takes on a lecherous expression. They basically do not need to work hard. A female manager even complains about why attractive male employees always resign (in reality, they were either forced out or “resigned” by the company).

Workload: The workload is extremely heavy and makes people feel highly stressed. From the first day on the job, you feel as though you are being treated like a machine—even worse than one.

Overtime: The overtime culture is severe. In some departments, you cannot leave after work; supervisors resent subordinates leaving early. The company itself is conservative and is not really progressing. Its turnover is greater than Godzilla’s. Salaries are also on the low side (although there is a year-end bonus, daily life goes on every day and the monthly salary is extremely low; if you rent a place, you will basically be living on dirt).

Training: There is no introduction and no training of any kind; it is all just for show, and you are entirely dependent on senior employees to teach you. You can only try to search for information online yourself—no one will teach you. Other than going to the bathroom, you have no chance to stand up; you just keep working and working. As someone with no experience, I spent 12 hours at the company every day without overtime pay. The training program exists only in name and is merely for appearances. Once a new hire’s work does not meet expectations, they simply say you are incapable. In reality, the Taiwan branch itself is the one that is utterly incompetent.

When you get right down to it, you do not know what you have learned. You only know that you are constantly being rushed to move on to the next task, without having time to absorb or understand anything—which is a serious problem. In the end, they blame the frontline staff. Only the supervisors’ pressure counts as pressure. It is basically half of Naoki Hanzawa.

Promotions are not transparent; performance bonuses are not transparent; the labor union is basically a sham put on for appearances; the low wages are suspected to be intended to reduce tax payments.

Organization: The organization is extremely rotten and outdated. Senior employees and supervisors have extremely, extremely poor qualities—people who know only half the story yet think they know everything, like frogs at the bottom of a well, completely disconnected from the global workplace. They occasionally frame subordinates and make frontline staff take the blame. They also keep blacklisting and suppressing newcomers, as if everyone else were idiots who knew nothing. It displays the typical problems of a traditional manufacturing company, with entrenched factions formed around individual interests.

Management: Senior executives cannot see the full picture of reality. Even caring about frontline staff is useless; they live in a parallel universe. Supervisors have no ability to lead a team and use bizarre logic such as blaming others and saying that everyone else is at fault. They love making employees take the blame, maliciously making baseless accusations against newcomers over every little thing, frequently engaging in verbal bullying, and, despite having unclear thinking themselves, saying that their peers lack logic.