Workplace reviews and discussion: 麗黛實業有限公司

The workplace is divided into upstairs and downstairs. The colleagues upstairs are quite friendly, but the colleagues downstairs are rather cold. If you don't want to socialize, you'll probably like it.

1. During the interview, be sure to keep in mind the working hours stipulated by the Labor Standards Act, and confirm exactly what working hours the other party means—from what time to what time. Overtime is paid.

2. There are many miscellaneous tasks to do. Even if you interview for position A, you are often asked to support position B. This will be mentioned during the interview.

3. If the supervisor is dissatisfied with the work results, they will not say so. They will leave uploads of your work and messages asking whether everything is OK on read without replying. In the group chat, it will feel like you are the only one performing a monologue.

4. You may not necessarily have to work on substitute public holidays, but you will not be notified whether you need to go in. If future unfortunate employees encounter this, remember to ask before the end of your shift, because there have been cases where they said during working hours that you had to go in, then only said at the end of the shift that you did not need to—but gave no notice at all.

Later, they will ask you to find time to make up for this day off. If you do not make it up, it will keep accumulating.

5. During the interview, they said that if there were problems, there would be senior colleagues to ask. But the senior colleagues are basically never there in practice—LOL.

If you ask someone else in the same office, their attitude will be very bad.

6. There is a lot of very loud noise in the office. You can hear a four-part harmony of music playing downstairs, the sound of machines running upstairs, telephone rings on every floor, and the voices of people answering phones on your floor. If you are confident in your ears, give it a try.

7. Before leaving in the future, be absolutely sure to find out what rights and benefits you are entitled to claim. I was asked to resign because I refused their request to transfer to another position. When I went to claim severance pay, they used all kinds of excuses to try to take it away from me.

So be absolutely sure to check what rights and benefits apply to your situation, and stand your ground instead of letting them lead you off course.