Workplace reviews and discussion: 益銓股份有限公司

Pros: The boss is very wealthy, so everyone can share in his assets. Most colleagues are kind and very patient.

If one were to seriously criticize this company’s biggest flaw, it would probably be that the boss, who is well past retirement age, is incompetent at management, narrow-minded, and poor at reading. In terms of severity, one could say he is somewhat like someone with dementia. For example, he once broke down and started yelling hysterically because a subordinate proposed a product quote that was too low. What exactly was there to break down about? If you think the price is too low for selling the product, just raise it. You set the price yourself—what was there to break down about?

Many people in this society like to inflate their own importance. Ordinary people, of course, are judged by the extent of their abilities, but this boss is the type who loves people more the more they brag. Lack of ability does not matter. There have been many people who get by in the company through infighting and backdoor connections, as well as people who joined by leveraging personal relationships. There have even been cases where people did no work yet inexplicably placed themselves on the same level as the boss, and the boss actually tacitly allowed it. He makes decisions entirely based on his mood and does not evaluate employee performance at all, spending more than ten times what other companies spend while earning one-tenth as much as other companies.

The boss has no ability to distinguish right from wrong. Many times, he even fabricates things out of thin air, approaching delusion.

If you are capable, you may have very bad luck here and have to clean up a lot of messes.

The boss lets other people manage recklessly, while also allowing himself to be confused, forgetful, impulsive, and unpredictable, making it difficult for those beneath him to get things done. The company has experienced waves of departures and layoffs. If you are considering joining, I sincerely recommend waiting until after a change in ownership.

By the way, the verbal abuse mentioned above is not merely the kind of reprimanding or lecturing one might expect. It is the kind involving extremely vulgar curses. The boss will endlessly repeat his insults, sometimes for an entire morning, and he even thinks this makes him very manly. So just think of him as a wealthy man with bipolar disorder and dementia. He once served as the head of the advisory team for Tainan City Council Speaker Kuo Hsin-liang, who was accused of soliciting bribes; what their actual relationship was, everyone can imagine for themselves.

Cons: There is no path for promotion, and pay is not necessarily increased gradually. There is no professional training, because the boss fantasizes, so you may be arbitrarily berated or told to resign. Internal infighting is common: veterans argue with newcomers, Taiwan argues with China, and different departments argue with one another. Those who are not good at fighting leave. The actual work differs from the position for which you applied.