Workplace reviews and discussion: 元國水電工程有限公司

The year-end bonus is approximately 1.5–2 months’ salary.

Only people with titles, such as department heads and managers, probably have a chance of receiving the full amount.

Back-office staff and engineers can only silently drool with envy.

There are occasional, unscheduled group meals.

Gift boxes are often given during the three major festivals and fruit seasons.

It is a company that is very thoughtful about observing social courtesies.

1. The culture is rather traditional, but small and medium-sized businesses are generally like this, so it’s not worth worrying too much about.

2. Although the company has various management positions, such as department heads, deputy managers, and managers,

in practice, not much authority is delegated to supervisors.

Many decisions still rest with the boss or the boss’s wife,

or everything has to be reported to upper management in great detail—even reimbursement requests for a few hundred dollars in petty cash.

These things alone can easily lead to dissatisfaction and disputes among employees and contractors.

The resulting problems cannot be resolved behind the scenes either.

(After all, supervisors have no decision-making authority, let alone the ability to negotiate solutions.)

This is what people who have worked there consider to be a particularly difficult aspect of the job.