Workplace reviews and discussion: 東莞斯達文星皮具有限公司

I really can't think of any.

Does having an underground parking lot count?

1. The job posting on 104 stated working hours of 08:00–17:00, but only after formally starting work were we told that it was always 08:00–19:00. Everyone routinely worked two hours of overtime. Not working overtime was considered absenteeism; not participating in after-work team activities was also considered absenteeism; and not working overtime without reason on Saturdays would also be counted as absenteeism and result in points being deducted. The 104 posting stated a monthly salary of NT$28,000–35,000, but they tried every possible way to deduct from employees’ hard-earned compensation. Actual take-home pay was only NT$26,000–31,000.

2. During the interview, they said there was a NT$50 meal subsidy. The following month, I discovered that more than NT$1,000 had been deducted for meals. When I asked HR, they said the subsidy was actually only NT$20. It was a complete scam.

3. HR said they had worked very hard to search through the group-meal suppliers in Taichung’s industrial parks, claiming that NT$70 would get you a hearty full meal with vegetables, meat, and soup. It was actually awful, and the rice even smelled sour and spoiled.

4. Every day, meetings began with questions about each team’s performance. Employees were expected to do excessive amounts of work every day, supposedly as a good deed, in exchange for a certificate of appreciation. Shipment volume and profit margins reach new highs every year, yet none of this is reflected in workers’ salaries or benefits. Performance bonuses and their calculation methods forever exist only on paper.

5. Employees are forced to work overtime on Saturdays. Those who do not go have to explain why, and management even emotionally blackmails employees by saying, “This is how we all made it through in the past.” This year, the calculation method was changed, and Saturday overtime pay was about NT$200–300 less than in previous years.

6. Cookies, fried chicken, bubble tea, lamb hot pot, and mala hot pot are always only for supervisors. Rank-and-file employees are left with nothing; they even haggle over every last cookie with employees.

7. Staffing is always insufficient. People who genuinely intend to resign will not leak the news in advance. Those who stay are the ones who keep complaining that they are unhappy and want to leave, but after receiving a pat on the head at the year-end party, they continue working like corporate drones. They smile and say “let’s part on good terms” to departing employees, while privately gossiping about and mocking them in every possible way.

8. The year-end bonus is supposedly “one month and up,” adjusted according to profit margins and seniority. Most people received only the basic salary of NT$23,000—or even less than NT$20,000—for two or three consecutive years. The year-end banquet dragged on painfully, and the food was terrible. They claimed each table cost NT$8,000, yet there was not even any real chicken-and-pork-belly Buddha-jumps-over-the-wall soup. Employees also had to go onstage and be made into fools to entertain the shareholders and CEO. The chairman’s final bonus was only NT$10,000, which had to be divided among ten people.

9. There are supposedly protected positions for people with disabilities, but the work is the same physically demanding labor. They even ask people with disabilities, “If your body can’t handle it, why did you come to work?”

10. Even having water on your desk to quench your thirst draws a pile of complaints and nitpicking. Meanwhile, supervisors’ desks are covered with fried chicken, potato chips, drinks, and McDonald’s. The basic understanding that water should be kept away from 3C devices, keyboards, and desktop computers seems to have been eaten along with the food.