Workplace reviews and discussion: 柏煇科技有限公司

Two days off per week; public holidays off; labor and health insurance provided; annual leave follows the Labor Standards Act; the office provides snacks and cookies; mentally challenging work

1. No bonuses for the three major holidays. Payslips are not provided on time, and sometimes are not provided at all. If you ask the boss whether they can provide your payslip, they may even snap at you, “Wasn’t it already given to you?” You check again, and it still hasn’t been provided.

2. There is no such thing as “training.” You are expected to get started immediately. After spending a great deal of time producing something, if the boss is dissatisfied, it is simply considered a poor piece of work. If you spend that much time and still cannot do it well, you can only wait to be lectured and scolded.

3. Overtime can only be exchanged for overtime pay; this is an unwritten workplace rule. If you apply for compensatory leave on your overtime form, the boss will not approve it. The form will be left pending for a long time, at which point you know perfectly well that it clearly will not be approved. You can only withdraw the request and exchange it for overtime pay instead.

4. The boss says overtime is not encouraged, but whenever a project is rushed, the entire company works overtime. The Labor Standards Act stipulates that extended working hours may not exceed 12 hours per day, but there have genuinely been cases where people worked more than 12 hours while being allowed to report only 4 hours of overtime. Some colleagues have even worked at the company until the early hours of the morning before going home, then gotten up early to work as usual the next day.

5. The boss is very impolite toward employees, possibly because they are the boss and consider themselves superior. There is no established system; whatever the boss says goes, and the boss’s word is everything. The boss also often says that method A is correct, then later changes their position and says method B is correct, resulting in colleagues who followed method A being scolded. If the boss happens to be wrong about something, they cannot bring themselves to admit it. ^^.

6. The boss has a bad temper, so avoid one-on-one conversations whenever possible.

7. Little pay, lots and lots and lots of work.