Workplace reviews and discussion: 泰詠電子股份有限公司

Pros:

(1) The disease prevention measures are implemented very rigorously.

(2) Indirect staff are not docked pay when taking personal leave (not sure whether the same applies to direct staff).

(3) The workday ends early (4:45).

(1) The workday ends early, but as an indirect staff member, it is basically impossible to leave on time. It merely means the working hours are extended in disguise, and leaving work on time is a luxury. (Some senior colleagues may even say, “Wow, you get to leave so early.”)

(2) The lunch break is only half an hour, which is not quite enough time for people who eat slowly. Because meals are staggered by groups due to the pandemic, the last group may easily find that no company-provided meal is available. A few times, I went to the cafeteria and found there was no food left, so I could only silently return to work.

(3) Indirect staff do not receive overtime pay; even if you work until midnight, the pay is the same.

(4) During the interview, they explicitly said that the system is clock-in-based for starting work and responsibility-based for ending work, and that is indeed how it works. They especially like to use employees’ time for meetings before or after work. Everyone just accepts it without protest, which is very strange.

(5) Some people come to work on weekends (yes, with no overtime pay). If there is really so much work, more staff should be hired, but management’s attitude is more like “the capable should do more,” and they will even criticize people for not doing a good enough job or not being efficient enough.

(6) The company culture involves a particularly large number of meetings, but most of them have little substance. Meanwhile, matters that genuinely need to be communicated are handled very casually, and information is not even circulated properly. Sometimes the rules are changed, but hardly anyone knows. If something is important to the company, why not announce it clearly?

(7) There are “absolutely no” accessibility facilities. Once, I had to push a cart upstairs to transport equipment, and even getting through the main entrance was extremely difficult. There are stairs everywhere and no ramps. I do not know what people who use wheelchairs or have injured legs and difficulty walking are supposed to do in this situation. There is also no elevator in the parking garage or restaurant. Seeing injured colleagues limp up and down the stairs is truly exasperating.

(8) I am not sure whether this is limited to a particular department or is common across the company, but senior employees will use being busy as an excuse and are unwilling to train newcomers. They may even leave new employees with nothing to do and let them fend for themselves, without seeing anything wrong with that.

(9) People in certain departments are very good at shifting blame. Every mistake is blamed on someone else for not doing their job properly, and this is also how they train new employees in that department.

(10) When customers make unreasonable demands, management says this is an opportunity to demonstrate our top-tier service. In reality, they are simply dumping the trouble on the employees who have to carry it out: the customer is God, and the employee is a dog.

(11) Since personal leave is not docked from pay, people who take personal leave still have to work somewhere outside the office.