Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣大洋金幣有限公司

There are absolutely no advantages; applicants, please consider carefully.

During the interview, they will paint a rosy picture, telling you that you are exactly the talent they are looking for and describing how much authority and what benefits they can offer you. In reality, once you join the company, you will find that things are vastly different from what you expected. After you join, they will start nitpicking over all kinds of trivial matters and constantly demand efficiency and results! (Even after meeting the performance targets, the performance bonus originally described was not provided.)

The boss will ask you to get involved in a little bit of everything and proceed according to the boss’s wishes, but in the end will still criticize you for having such poor performance. Most of the time, however, you are actually dealing with a bunch of matters that the boss says are unrelated to performance.

The boss will also constantly instill in employees the idea that the boss is supporting the company and keeping the employees employed. They will also repeatedly lecture everyone about maintaining existing clients and developing new ones. After account passwords and permissions are changed, and after anything is completed, you will report it to the boss. But the boss will still repeatedly ask about the account passwords and operating procedures. Be sure to preserve complete records of your conversations, so that in the end the boss does not decide that everything was the employee’s own fault. I heard the boss is also very good at laying off employees. Yes, I was one of those laid off, too XD

The boss said that, in order to show respect to a particular supplier, all correspondence and even messages should be written as “country name + XX company + Manager XXX” to show respect for that manager. As a result, a simple purchase order email would be filled with repeated instances of “country name + XX company + Manager XXX.” Something that could originally have been handled in 5–10 minutes might take an hour of confirming everything with the boss before the email can be sent to the supplier. (The key point is that you will still be criticized for being so inefficient, while the boss repeatedly says “Hurry, hurry, hurry,” pressuring you to deal with things quickly, with absolutely no awareness that employees need to concentrate while working.)

Three months after I started working there, “late salary payments” began to occur. The boss would not explain the situation to employees individually. Even when employees repeatedly asked about their salaries, the boss would not proactively respond about when the salaries would actually be paid. If the boss said anything, it would be relayed privately to our colleagues, who would then pass it on to us.

Another situation was that the boss would say there were not enough funds available to pay salaries and require employees to work hard to sell inventory before salaries could be paid. Previously, the boss had notified our colleagues to use payments received from customers for their purchases as salary payments to employees. Later, the boss asked my colleague how they could possibly use customers’ purchase payments as salary payments. Anyone considering interviewing there, please think carefully before deciding whether to go to the interview.

Customers waited two months and still did not receive the products they ordered because the boss would not ship them—either claiming to be on a business trip or simply being unreachable. The most outrageous part is that the company paid salaries on the 10th of every month. In the latter part of the following month, I was notified that my salary for the previous month had been docked due to insufficient performance. Since I should have received that salary on the 10th, I was so shocked that I could only file a complaint with the Ministry of Labor.

About a week later, the time came when the boss notified me that I was being laid off. I figured that staying at a company where salaries were paid late and where I was constantly harassed over my work was not a sustainable long-term plan. During the layoff notice period, besides job-search leave, I wanted to take personal leave for interviews. The boss relayed to my colleague: “The job-search leave provided by the government is for attending interviews. There are only two days left for the handover, so personal leave ‘should not’ be granted anymore. Besides, the company still has to process payroll on Saturday and Sunday, while they do not need to work.” The boss also told my colleague that if the business duties were not fully handed over, the company would not pay severance. In addition, the boss was very good at verbally bullying employees and was often out of touch with the situation. Two days before I was about to leave, the boss asked my colleague to record a video of employees working. I directly told my colleague that I refused to be filmed. This company had once grown to the scale of a large company occupying floors one through five, but now has fewer than five employees. All I can say is that the boss must have a very big heart—not noticing any of their own problems. Anyone considering interviewing at this company, please carefully consider your future career development before deciding.