Workplace reviews and discussion: 友勁科技股份有限公司

If you are assigned to a department on the 4th floor, both the work and the environment are excellent.

You enter as a dispatched worker, and this staffing agency stipulates that if you work for less than three days, you will not be paid. The medical examination costs NT$650 (NT$45 extra for postage if you have it mailed to your home) plus NT$100 for an EasyCard or iPASS, meaning you have to pay NT$795 before starting work. (You can also keep the cost to a minimum of NT$650 by providing a medical examination report from within the past three months, saving yourself the upfront expense.)

This staffing agency calculates pay by monthly salary. Compared with another staffing agency, you directly earn more than NT$10,000 less each month.

As for the company, its most unreasonable rule is that being one minute late results in an automatic deduction of half a day’s pay. The company and the staffing agency will say: “We have always treated being one minute late as four hours of personal leave; there is absolutely no such thing as forcing you to take leave or withholding wages.”

In plain language: We already told you, didn’t we? You being late is your problem. Can you blame us for deducting half a day’s pay? Blame yourself for not leaving home earlier!

In addition, there is absolutely no leeway when it comes to lateness. Traffic jams? You are unfamiliar with the location of the time clock because it is your first day? Putting on your hat, antistatic clothing, shoes, and checking your static electricity levels caused you to be late? Well, all of these are your own problem as an employee.

Regarding working hours, the staffing agency will say “overtime is voluntary,” but in practice, do you really dare say no? If you do, please go home and wait to be notified. Without overtime: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with a break from 10:00 to 10:15 a.m., lunch from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m., and a break from 3:00 to 3:15 p.m. With overtime: dinner is from 5:20 to 6:20 p.m., and overtime lasts until 8:00 p.m. at the latest. This is the same from Monday through Friday. Saturday overtime is from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with the same break times as on days without overtime.

Meals cost NT$30. It gives the impression of a buffet, but the variety and quality are not as good as at an actual buffet. (After all, it is only NT$30.)

Overtime frequency: During the first week, they are afraid new hires will quit, so they will not make you work overtime. The following week is when hell begins: six days of work and one day off. Unless you are Superman or a cockroach, working overtime on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays or Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays is recommended.

The overtime system supposedly involves checking a form and does not force people to work overtime, but......

I did not encounter overtime because I clocked in late after being unfamiliar with the procedures, was forced to take leave, and then decisively resigned. However, among the people hired in the same group, someone who had a part-time job on Fridays and Saturdays and could not work overtime was immediately questioned by their supervisor.

You can apply for a parking permit, so your scooter or car will not be exposed to wind, sun, or rain. You need to show the parking permit (sticker) to enter the parking lot, and the vehicle compartment is inspected when you leave.

Leave must be requested ten minutes before the start of work. Sick leave requires a medical certificate. To resign, avoid the 25th and 26th of each month, when payroll is calculated, and give three days’ advance notice.

Conclusion: The work itself is fine, but the company’s policies are very problematic. If you do not get placed through the right staffing agency, your pay is directly reduced by more than NT$10,000. This company is recruiting year-round, and the security guards and HR department are very accustomed to handling dispatched workers who resign. Approximately seven out of every ten people who enter end up leaving.