Workplace reviews and discussion: 金皇企業股份有限公司

Other departments are pretty comfortable; basically, there isn't much to do. You can slack off—so long as the work gets done, that's all that matters. It's a good place to coast until retirement. Nobody really supervises you, and there's no pressure.

The quality of the work produced is also fairly good, and the people are generally pretty nice.

1. Low salary

2. Extremely dangerous; there was absolutely no safety equipment or anything of the sort.

When I was working in facilities maintenance, I thought it was outrageous. I followed an experienced technician around, climbing onto rooftops to dismantle motors—it was absurd. We went onto the corrugated-metal roof of a factory, where there was no safety equipment whatsoever. I wasn't given any protective gear or even a hard hat; they just told me to climb up. If you fell, you'd either die or be seriously injured.

The factory's senior technician was awful. Whenever something needed to be dismantled, he would just take it apart without using a multimeter to check whether the power was actually off. When I first joined, I already had some maintenance experience, so I paid close attention to cutting the power. Every time we worked, I asked him whether the power was off and whether we should use a multimeter to check. He kept telling me the company didn't have a multimeter. As it turned out, he was doing live electrical work the whole time and had no idea whether the power had actually been disconnected. Once, while we were dismantling a motor, I could clearly see that it was still running, but he told me the power was off. I couldn't take it anymore, so I went and shut off the motor myself. While I was disconnecting the wires, he turned the power back on, which was incredibly stupid and caused me to get shocked. Furious, I asked him what kind of lousy company didn't even have a multimeter. After pressing him, he finally admitted that the company did have one, but he didn't know how to use it. I was completely dumbfounded. A senior technician with 40 years of experience told me he didn't know how to use a multimeter. I then asked the people on-site and found out that many of the jobs involving replacing parts or components were practically all live electrical work. Even replacing an outlet was outrageous. To identify the live wire, he would pinch the wires directly between his thumb and index finger and tell me, “This one has electricity; this one is live.” What the hell? Before I left, I told him bluntly: “You want to mess around like this with 110 volts? Fine, I'll laugh it off. You want to do the same with 220 volts? I have to admire your courage. You're going to do this with 300- and 400-volt electricity too, right?” He was a complete idiot. It's already lucky that he worked for 40 years without being electrocuted to death.

When replacing a light at a height of about two or three stories, they actually drove over a forklift, put a pallet and an A-frame ladder on it, and told me to raise the ladder while standing on the forklift so I could replace the light. Do workplace safety regulations really say that you're allowed to use a forklift like that?

Anyway, this lousy company simply doesn't care about workplace safety or electrical regulations. Only an idiot would do maintenance here. You could go to another department, where the work looks pretty comfortable—just tightening screws and using a forklift to move things around. It's quite easygoing. But whatever you do, don't take a facilities-maintenance job. You could die without even knowing what happened.

I only know how dangerous it is because I've done the work myself. If you put a recent graduate here who knows nothing, they wouldn't even know how they died.

This is probably the worst company I've worked for so far.