Workplace reviews and discussion: 迦勒廣告事業有限公司

I seriously can't think of any.

If you aren't short of money and have too much of it with nowhere to spend it, and want to do charity, public welfare, or accumulate good deeds and blessings, you might consider this place.

After working hard for more than two years, the year-end bonus was only a little over 10,000 (although the facts prove that I alone helped the company earn a lot of money, with seven-figure net profits). Although the year-end bonus depends on how much the boss feels like giving, everyone's average is absurdly low.

You have to clock in at 8 a.m., and they tell you this is preparation time for work. There is a one-hour lunch break, but sometimes there is no break at all; if you try to rest in the afternoon instead, they tell you not to sleep. You get off work at 6 p.m., and they even try to convince you that the company is wonderful and considerate for helping you avoid rush-hour traffic. In reality, they are forcing you to work extra hours without overtime pay. Staying after 6 p.m. to handle work matters also never results in overtime pay.

The boss often tries to make money by occasionally persuading you to do things in a gray area. If you cannot get out of it, he will feel that you are incompetent.

They will force you to take on work that colleagues throughout the company had previously done and then refused to accept again. They even told a 30-year-old woman to go alone in the evening and on weekends to Taipei Main Station and Wanhua to help him find lists of homeless people, simply because he wanted to do good deeds. He then tells you that you are thinking too badly and making things too complicated about them. After you refuse, he lectures you with all kinds of moral principles again. Other people's children are the ones who get taken advantage of endlessly, right!

Every time, calculating the salary takes a long time because of all the deductions. Often, you do not even receive the legally required basic minimum wage. How are the deductions calculated? It depends on the boss—he deducts whatever he wants. Being late by up to 30 minutes in the morning results in a deduction (more than one hour's wages is deducted); being more than 30 minutes late results in half a day's pay being deducted and an absence without leave being recorded. Forgetting to clock in also leads directly to a deduction. Labor and health insurance have continuously been illegally registered through an occupational union. Many people have raised this with the boss, but nothing ever comes of it. There are no retirement contributions at all. Business mileage, phone bills, and even basic refreshments for clients when going out—all are paid out of your own pocket. Contractors' wages are sometimes also deducted from employees' salaries during construction (sometimes by several thousand dollars at a time, and sometimes even more). Contracts given to homeowners contain one-sided, unfair clauses, and then they teach you how to package and present them. They demand that contractors work quickly and maintain quality, while also requiring employees to constantly haggle with contractors over prices.

In short, there are all kinds of deductions. More than 80% of what we earn for the company goes to the boss, and even part of our basic salary depends on him. We are basically spending our own money to support the boss's entire family, only to starve ourselves.