Interviewed position: Plumber/electrician

Interviewer: Everyone asked everything and explained the job duties in a way that might sound easy or might not; the interviewee has to judge for themselves

Hiring status: Hired

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Actually, the salary for this job is genuinely attractive. During the probationary period, it is 45,000 to 50,000, and then after the probationary period

there is a chance it may be adjusted to 60,000 or even 70,000.

The managers are all pretty NICE. They will ask you anytime and anywhere whether you need any help.

The position corresponds to your professional expertise, so you really can apply what you learned. Everything you can think of—and even what you cannot think of—is included.

Because the six days of leave are arranged by yourself, you can schedule four days in advance and keep the other two flexible. If you want to take a day off, just report it to your supervisor.

The employee meals are really delicious. I gained five kilograms.

1. As a plumber/electrician, the working hours are not long—nine hours a day. However, if an unexpected situation occurs, you must stay and work overtime to handle it, without exception. The seriousness of the situation is not for you to decide; it is decided by the supervisor.

If they do not trust the judgment of specialized personnel, why hire them in the first place? They might as well hire anyone and have them resolve things according to their wishes.

2. Regarding salary, it is not stable after the probationary period. Instead, there is a work-performance evaluation every month, divided into three levels with three different salaries. If you do not get along well with your supervisor, there is a high probability that you may receive the lowest salary every month. You might earn 65,000 this month and then drop to 50,000 next month.

3. The electrician role is not purely plumbing and electrical work. You also have to serve as a workplace-safety and fire-safety-control administrator (fire drills, team organization, and execution), and there is a large amount of paperwork waiting for you. You must accompany on-site inspections and audits, which means you will not be able to do anything else that day. If there are tasks scheduled for that day that remain unfinished, you still have to continue working after the inspectors leave, even if your shift has ended.

4. Personally, I feel that the company does not place much importance on plumbers/electricians. When designing the stores, they did not even plan basic material-storage rooms or maintenance rooms. As a result, plumbers/electricians can only carry out repairs in areas outside the store itself. (Most locations are together with shopping centers or department stores, so repairs are usually done in stairwells. Some particularly unlucky employees are even told by the department store or building that they cannot carry out repairs in the stairwell and must go to an open area.)

P.S. If you did not design maintenance or material-storage rooms, why not just outsource the work?

5. The maintenance system is completely without structure. There is no repair-request SOP; everything is decided verbally. There are no repair request forms or request numbers. How are you supposed to record how many times this type of repair has occurred, whether over a short or long period, and review and improve the process?

Although the internal communications system is used to say which areas are broken and need repairs, who is going to take out their phone and check it while working? Even after finishing a repair, when you finally have a moment to rest, it is impossible to keep that messaging app open and watch it continuously.

6. Plumbers/electricians are always busy when there is work, but whenever there is a chance to take a break, someone will resent you for doing so and send you to help serve dishes...

P.S. You expect a plumber/electrician who is filthy after work to serve food that customers will eat...???

(This is something I probably should not have written, but if anyone applies for the job, consider it a warning. This position is different from ordinary maintenance, engineering, or facilities jobs elsewhere.)

7. Extremely strict food-safety controls... This is something you really need to pay attention to yourself, because ordinary plumbers/electricians outside usually focus on keeping their work running smoothly. For example, some people like to wear gloves while working, while others do not. In the face of food-safety controls, all of that is irrelevant. Whether you like wearing them or not, if you do not wear them? Fine—points will be deducted, and your salary for the month is ruined.

P.S. Food safety is ridiculously and excessively strict (but isn't that what gives customers peace of mind when they eat?)