Workplace reviews and discussion: 億豐綜合工業股份有限公司

The salary and bonuses are fairly good; at the managerial level and above, there is a chance to earn two years’ worth of income in one year.

If you can work at headquarters, do not accept an overseas assignment—especially not at the Cambodia plant.

1. The working hours are very strange: 0730–1130, 1330–1730, and 1900–2100. In particular, the evening shift from 1900–2100 requires you to be in the office, regardless of whether you actually need to work overtime. Everyone has to go into the office and pretend to be busy. You have no time of your own for further study, exercise, or doing what you want.

2. The company’s promises during the interview that someone would be assigned to clean and do laundry are false. The Cambodia plant manager said that there is no company policy requiring the company to clean or do laundry for you. Therefore, after getting off work at 9 p.m., you have to drag your exhausted body into the bathroom and wash your clothes. On holidays, you have to sacrifice your precious days off to clean the bathroom and toilet yourself, sweep and mop the floors, and tidy your room.

3. When you hear that overseas assignees get 60 days of leave per year, do not celebrate too soon. Sundays and local public holidays are all deducted from your leave. For example, if you plan to return to Taiwan for leave from 2022/9/18 to 2022/9/27, the two Sundays in between—9/18 and 9/25—are also deducted from your 60 days. September 24 and September 26 are local public holidays, and those are deducted as well. Furthermore, if there is a continuous local holiday lasting three days or more, including three days, the company will deduct those days from your 60 days even if you do not take leave.

4. Because the deputy manager of the factory’s administration department has the plant manager’s backing, even managers at the senior manager level or above cannot afford to offend him. No matter how many mistakes the administration department makes, other departments are ultimately blamed. If you accidentally offend this department—or merely ask a simple question, such as what time the company shuttle runs on holidays—you may find yourself inexplicably on their bad side and placed on the plant manager’s blacklist. The plant manager will do everything possible to get rid of you.

5. Many department heads like to take credit or shift responsibility. The good things are all attributed to the manager, while the bad things are all blamed on you. They will also put on the appearance of being a good manager and pretend to speak up for you during performance evaluations, when in reality, if you leave, they will have no one to take the blame. Also, you may be dismissed because your manager’s poor leadership makes you look like a civil servant.

If you are willing to be sufficiently servile, you can achieve financial freedom here. But the prerequisites are that you can guarantee you will stay for more than 10 years, never offend the administration department or the plant manager, and ensure that your good performance is noticed by the general manager.