1. The interview is not difficult, and it is easy to get hired.

2. The boss is not often in Taiwan.

3. Employee lunch boxes are available at a discounted price of NT$50.

4. The company places importance on product quality.

5. If you are frequently transferred between departments, you will get to know quite a few employees and learn many skills.

6. There is a generational gap among the company’s employees. The turnover rate among younger employees is high, but many senior employees have more than 10 or 20 years of service, because it is not easy for older employees to find good jobs.

7. Unpaid leave is not imposed.

If you have a better job opportunity, you really should not join this company.

I worked at the company for several years or more. The following are things I personally experienced and unreasonable situations I observed:

1. Taiwanese workers are treated worse than foreign employees. Foreign employees receive overtime pay when working overtime, while Taiwanese full-time employees are classified as being under a responsibility-based system and do not receive overtime pay.

2. The boss schedules meetings one hour before the workday begins. No overtime pay is provided, and employees cannot leave early. Once, for a meeting at 6:30, everyone was required to gather at 6:00. Employees were required not to bring their phones into the meeting because a former employee had previously recorded the boss and filed a lawsuit.

3. The boss speaks negatively about former employees during meetings and even distorts the facts.

4. The company has arranged many informants around the workplace. Even when the boss is not at the company, the boss will, based on one-sided accounts from informants or favored employees, develop a dislike for employee A and speak negatively about employee A to surrounding employees, even brainwashing them and spreading rumors with the intention of causing them to ostracize employee A.

5. If the company wants to lay off employees because of poor business operations, the boss will listen to favored employees and try to make things difficult for the employee in question—for example, forcing a department transfer, having HR maliciously cut the employee’s salary, finding fault with the employee, and threatening to sue them—to force the employee to resign voluntarily.

6. Some employees occupy their positions without doing their jobs. They receive relatively good salaries and can leave work on time; no one even dares to stop them from extending their lunch breaks. Once, another employee reported this person to a favored employee. However, the employee had the boss’s support, so nothing could be done to them. The employee then began framing other employees, magnifying and scrutinizing even minor matters, and even distorting the facts. The company atmosphere became one of white terror.

7. During my employment, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the company to close for more than two months. Since the company was not operating during that period, salaries were reduced or paid at the statutory minimum wage under the Labor Standards Act. Before reopening, the uniforms were redesigned, and several thousand NT dollars were deducted from our salaries as a deposit. We were told that the deposit would be returned only after continuing to work for several months. If someone resigned during that period... not only would they be unable to recover the several thousand NT dollars, they would still have to return the uniform and would also be charged a uniform-cleaning fee.

8. The company is unfriendly toward senior employees. After I had worked for several years, my salary was increased by only NT$1,000 and then frozen. I was subsequently transferred to another department. When the company hired someone for the position in my former department, the starting salary was higher than my salary after the raise. At that moment, I felt that senior employees were considered less valuable than inexperienced newcomers.

9. After working for several years, I received an annual bonus only about two or three times, generally around NT$3,000–7,000.

10. The boss is very generous to certain clients and frequently gives them gifts, believing it is advertising, but then turns around and says that the company is not making money...

11. If the boss has your personal LINE account, you will be bothered by the boss’s LINE messages on your days off.

12. My salary was frozen for many years, and I was forced to transfer to other departments more than once. At one point, I only received a raise and a retention offer after submitting my resignation. However, I saw many employees come and go, eventually resigning for various reasons—when the fire was about to reach them personally.