Workplace reviews and discussion: 弘益生態有限公司

1. Money is pretty easy to earn

Besides the salary (not counting base pay, perfect-attendance bonuses, and the like separately—it’s one complete salary, adjusted every year, and only ever goes up)

Performance bonuses (paid twice a year, about one month’s salary each time)

Three-holiday bonuses (NT$1,000 red envelopes each)

Work bonus (NT$5,000 if you take no personal or sick leave during the year)

Unused annual leave can also be exchanged for money

Colleagues on business trips receive travel expenses and the difference in accommodation costs

Offshore work comes with an offshore-work bonus

Overtime is also very easy to apply for, and is paid in full

There are also health checkups and employee trips—the benefits are plentiful~

2. You don’t have to do anything if you don’t know how

The more you slack off at the company, the happier you’ll be

Those who work hard work themselves sick; even using overtime pay to see a doctor isn’t enough

I suggest coming in, doing the bare minimum, and just keeping up appearances

Among employees at the same entry-level position with the same seniority, the salary difference between doing a poor job and doing a good job is at most two or three thousand [NT dollars],

But the workload can differ greatly, even by more than twice as much

The boss says everyone works eight hours a day

If you do more, you still can’t accomplish that much more

It’s like an air conditioner that can’t run cooling and heating at the same time—the price won’t be twice as high either

3. Values boomerang employees

Because the company is so easy to make money at (and slack off in), people who can’t get by elsewhere all come back; the rehire rate is extremely high

People curse the company to death when they leave, but still come back in the end—and can even get a higher salary than before

Meanwhile, the people who quietly worked hard inside and cleaned up after departing colleagues are treated like they’re nothing

4. No entrenched culture of working overtime

People don’t stay late just because no one dares leave when the workday ends

So once 5:30 p.m. arrives, you can bravely walk out

Of course, those who work hard as mentioned above, or who want to trick the company into paying overtime, will keep working under the lights

1. Promotions are very puzzling

The company always says promotions aren’t based on seniority

Some people never get promoted no matter how long they work there, while others move up after one or two years

Put nicely, it’s based on (the ability to cling to a powerful superior); in reality, it’s pretty baffling

Some people get promoted without having any team members under them (Who are the managers supposed to manage?)

Or their responsibilities don’t change after promotion (it’s simply a way to raise their salary)

They also love parachuting in senior executives, especially deputy-level positions

Everyone complains, yet they still do just fine at the company

The only thing the managers have in common is that they’re irresponsible, haha

They spend work hours ordering drinks, organizing McDonald’s group orders and group buys, and clipping their nails

When something goes wrong, they push entry-level colleagues out to be criticized

2. Seniority is not valued

If you have been there a long time but aren’t in a management position,

there are basically no benefits at all

Of course, if you’re just looking to coast, it’s an okay job with a stable salary

3. High turnover

It’s a company where you can’t learn any skills

Many people leave after roughly two or three years, once they have experience they can put on their résumé

An absolutely correct decision

When you go outside to look for a job, you’ll discover that the experience here isn’t very useful—you really don’t need to stay too long

So when people discover that other companies are easy to coast in, they come back here (and then earn an even higher salary—how wonderful!)

4. No systems; poor cross-functional communication

Every friend who hears that an 80-person company has no systems and still manages things with Excel is amazed

Many things can only rely on colleagues’ memories

But for the company to still not value veteran employees under these circumstances—I’m speechless, haha

In summary,

Remember to put on a good show for your supervisor regularly, and cling to your supervisor as much as possible

In reality, just do the bare minimum; coast whenever you can

That way, you’ll love it here

But if you don’t plan to stay until retirement,

the longer you stay, the worse it will be for you, because once you leave, you’ll be starting from zero

Finding a job will be very difficult