Workplace reviews and discussion: 春保食品股份有限公司

It doesn't seem like there are any.

They notified me of the interview through a job bank and sent me a PDF of my résumé beforehand for me to print. When I arrived, I found out that the interview location was a factory. Because of the pandemic, I pressed the doorbell on the first floor and waited for the interviewer to come down.

The interviewer was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties. The interview took place inside the security office on the first floor. He asked about my previous experience while I filled out the standardized résumé form they had printed. It felt like their job responsibilities were very unclear. They had posted three openings on the job bank: 1. Chief Accountant, 2. Finance and Cashier, and 3. Accounting Specialist. However, when explaining the positions, they said that Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Cashier duties fell under the Chief Accountant position. I applied for the Finance and Cashier position, but they said that the position I applied for would still require a second interview with the vice president, after which the company would decide which opening I would actually fill. Also, either he let it slip or simply wasn't paying attention: he said that Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable had originally been two separate positions, but had now been combined into one person's responsibilities because of “cost considerations” (the company didn't want to pay an additional salary).

I don't know what the company's interior is like because I wasn't taken inside, but from the outside it was a building with no obvious signage, sharing a production building with other factories. The first floor was still an operating site for producing office paper. I was told that the current area was for production workers, while the other departments had moved to another office building, and that Finance might also be moved there in the future.

Regarding salary, the interviewer couldn't make a decision, so I was told that the final decision would be made by the vice president after a second video interview in the afternoon.

Overall, it felt like they were seriously short-staffed and kept hoping I could start as soon as possible. The person currently in the position was scheduled to leave on February 25, and they wanted someone to start quickly to take over the work (could everything really be handed over in one or two days?). They posted so many openings, yet the company could ultimately decide which position you would take—either they are short-staffed across the board, or the openings are all undesirable jobs.

Finally, I looked them up on the Ministry of Labor's website and found the following:

No. Competent Authority Announcement Date Penalty Date Penalty Reference No. Business Entity Name (Person in Charge) / Individual Name Violated Laws and Regulations Details of Violation

1 New Taipei City 2021/12/17 2021/09/13 New Taipei City Government Labor Inspection Notice No. 11047379602 Chun Pao Foods Co., Ltd. / Chen Chung-Hsiu-Hui Labor Standards Act, Article 30, Paragraph 6 Attendance records were not recorded daily to the minute as required 20,000

2 New Taipei City 2021/12/17 2021/09/13 New Taipei City Government Labor Inspection Notice No. 11047379601 Chun Pao Foods Co., Ltd. / Chen Chung-Hsiu-Hui Labor Standards Act, Article 23, Paragraph 1 Wages were not paid to workers periodically as required, or details of how each wage item was calculated were not provided 20,000

3 New Taipei City 2021/12/17 2021/09/13 New Taipei City Government Labor Inspection Notice No. 1104737960 Chun Pao Foods Co., Ltd. / Chen Chung-Hsiu-Hui Labor Standards Act, Article 22, Paragraph 2 Wages were not paid directly and in full to workers 20,000

4 New Taipei City 2021/06/18 2021/03/16 New Taipei City Government Labor Inspection Notice No. 1104717102 Chun Pao Foods Co., Ltd. / Chen Chung-Hsiu-Hui Labor Standards Act, Article 35 Workers were not given a 30-minute break after four consecutive hours of work 20,000

5 Taipei City 2020/11/05 2020/09/14 Taipei City Labor Notice No. 10960387631 Chun Pao Foods Co., Ltd. (Chen Chung-Hsiu-Hui) Labor Standards Act, Article 24, Paragraph 2 Overtime wages for work performed on rest days were not paid as required 20,000

There are tons of official penalties and violations, with several cases occurring over many consecutive years. After reading all that, I didn't want to go anymore~ Haha. A company that has repeatedly been penalized by the Ministry of Labor for violating the Labor Standards Act—failing to pay wages directly and in full, failing to record workers' attendance to the minute each day as required, and failing to pay workers periodically or provide details of how each wage item was calculated—is probably a very suitable place for anyone who wants to be a slave~~~~~~~~

Finally, the second video interview was really bizarre. I logged in early and wondered why the other party hadn't joined yet. It turned out they hadn't turned on their camera or said anything, and I was left sitting there awkwardly for more than ten minutes. Absolutely ridiculous~~~