Workplace reviews and discussion: 全國公證檢驗股份有限公司

I resigned today. The job was with a third-party testing company, and my previous assignment was in a laboratory, so I thought I would be capable of doing this job. The supervisor gave me an offer the day after the interview. I thought every job had a honeymoon period, but this company had none! I also knew that testing companies were under a lot of pressure to meet deadlines, but I am still reluctant to leave. First, during the interview, they said I would be assigned to a certain group, but when I reported for work, they suddenly told me that I had been transferred to another group because of staffing reasons. I thought it was a new job anyway, so I accepted it. For the first two days, a female coworker trained me. After that, the supervisor asked a senior male coworker to train me. The sampling methods at this company are extremely bizarre. It was the first time in my life that I had encountered a method where you cannot make marks and have to collect samples by hand. The female coworker told me to learn slowly, and the other women also said to take my time—it wasn't something as simple as eating a meal. Fine. Back to the senior male coworker: because this company calculates how many items you complete each day, when the female coworker was training me, she would first select simple items for me to sample and then add a new sampling method each day. I also took notes.

But that male coworker directly gave me a work order with seven or eight different sampling requirements. I knew I needed to practice my speed, but I really couldn't work quickly with those bizarre sampling methods. If there were special samples, you also had to compare them, yet he gave all of that to me: multiple sampling methods, checking the samples, and each case required sampling at least five colors. Then one day, he took a work order written entirely in English and said, “You came back from overseas and worked abroad, so English shouldn't be a problem for you, right? Translate this work order for me.” (I thought, “Who do you think you are?”) Then, regarding the sampling tools, I had been using them from the age of 18 to 36. While I was sampling, he suddenly asked, “Is this your first time using this kind of tool?” (I had already rolled my eyes so far back they were practically at the back of my head.) When the supervisor was present, he would tell me to take my time and practice. Not long after the supervisor left, he asked me, “Why are you so slow?” Also, since this was a third-party testing company, your sampling had to be accurate. While I was matching the patterns, he asked, “What is your prescription? You can't even see this?” I replied that the supplier had requested something different. He said there was no such thing and that sampling his way would be fine. Fine—if you dared to guarantee it, I would do it that way.

Although all this pressure had only just begun, he had already pushed me to the point where I developed physical problems. Today, when I handled my resignation with HR, I honestly complained to her about his awful behavior. HR still gave me a very official response, saying they would investigate, and asked whether I had informed my direct supervisor. I said no, because this team is so small that if I complained, they would immediately know who I was talking about! HR then said, “There are many people like this in the workplace. Look, you've let him get his way again!” Since HR put it that way, presumably this person is a repeat offender, right?!

You can't do anything about the old-timers,

The supervisors are all younger than them,

So there's no use filing a complaint at all!