Workplace reviews and discussion: 好運旺實業有限公司

Busy because there are lots of tourists

Ximending Hao Da Chicken Cutlet

104,1111 says morning and evening shifts, but in reality there is no choice—you definitely have to rotate shifts, or they will directly schedule you for an afternoon shift. The hours for the afternoon shift are whatever time the bosses say. Basically, the afternoon shift means working until closing or a few minutes before closing.

In reality, you do not really get seven days off, because overtime is very common. You often work seven days in a row; one coworker’s highest record was 11 consecutive days. The supervisors and bosses schedule the days off, and you can only choose two days yourself. Taking days off on holidays is prohibited.

To take sick leave, you must provide proof from a major hospital; documentation from a small clinic is not accepted.

The schedule is often changed repeatedly, and sometimes they do not tell you until the day before.

The rules of the game also change constantly.

For example, one month I only had four days off and worked 11 hours every day. It was harder to earn money there than at a traditional market.

Moreover, the salary posted on 104 is the salary after overtime has been included.

You do not actually receive 49,000 or 46,000; you only get that amount after working overtime, and labor and health insurance premiums are then deducted.

This is the flattering way to put it.

To put it bluntly, you are not paid for overtime on the days when you did not get to take your days off.

When I originally applied for the evening shift, they said the salary would be 49,000. Then they said that because they were short-staffed, the evening shift would end at midnight, and once there were enough staff, it would change to ending at 2 a.m.

In the end, they never managed to hire enough people. After receiving my salary, I found that it was only 46,000, and for those two days of overtime they only paid the daily wage. When I asked, they even told me that there was only a morning shift now.

So was I applying for a nonexistent evening-shift position at 49,000 in the first place?

If there is only a morning shift, why are there still shifts starting at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., and 1 p.m.?

They are simply playing word games. On top of that, overtime is paid at the same rate as the regular daily wage—only 1,600. Where is the overtime pay?

After exchanging information with coworkers, I found that after adding up the details, the salaries for a daily wage of 1,700 and one of 1,600 were actually the same. They are just calculating everything haphazardly and trying to pass off one thing as another.

During my first month, the probationary salary was 1,600 per day.

But to make payroll calculations more convenient, they also calculated the second month based on a daily wage.

Because they count November 23 to December 23 as one month,

and December 23 to January 23 as the second month.

You do not receive the full salary until the third month. What twisted reasoning. If they really wanted to calculate a full salary, they could have done so in the second month. The Labor Standards Act also has no such thing as a probationary period.

The company said they would only enroll me in labor and health insurance at the minimum salary level, and that salaries were paid in cash. I asked the company to insure me based on my actual salary.

They even told me that if the Chinese Communist Party attacked, having that insurance would not be useful anyway. I insisted on being insured at the highest level, and only then did they arrange it for me. Even more outrageously, there was an entire month when I was not insured at all.

After calculating the hourly rate, I actually felt that it would have been better to work somewhere else.

Everything I mentioned above was documented with photographs; I started recording things from the day I joined the company.

The boss probably knows who wrote this.

After joining the company, you also have to help at the nearby stalls, so you have to learn the work at the other stalls as well.

Basically, the boss expects you to be able to do everything.

They expect you to learn the drinks in three days, as if everyone were a genius.

Yet the people who came in were all strange.

When I originally applied to work at the chicken-cutlet stall, the job was not limited to working at that one stall.

Drink-stall workers could be called over to the souvenir stall or to move goods.

Scallion-pancake workers could be called to the chicken-cutlet stall.

Chicken-cutlet workers could be sent to manage inventory, move goods, make scallion pancakes, prepare drinks, or work at the souvenir stall.

Moreover, the company violated regulations by using a freight elevator to transport people. That broken elevator was extremely dangerous.

They also deliberately failed to enroll me in labor and health insurance. I have photographic evidence and have already confirmed that this can be reported within three years.

The company always steals a little here and a little there, making you feel that it is not worth the trouble to argue.

During the interview, they also said they would give you a bonus, but there were many rules for receiving it.

If you take leave without documentation, the entire bonus will be deducted.

However, the bonus is only available to full-time employees, meaning only after three months. Can you really receive it? I have serious doubts.

Originally, they said you could receive it the following month.

Later, they said they would only start calculating it the following month.

They kept pushing it back.

Anyone thinking of working there should not be fooled.

The boss and the boss’s wife both make everything sound very nice, and they do not seem too bad when speaking face-to-face.

But what they actually do is completely different. They have no credibility at all, and the working conditions are extremely exploitative.

They make excuses not to pay the money they owe, and they do not let you take the days off you are supposed to receive.

The above information is from early 2023.