Workplace reviews and discussion: 巨鎧實業股份有限公司

The initial period was fine.

1. Environment

Whether it is the office, warehouse, or work area, everything is covered in dust, with unfinished products and cardboard boxes piled up. Unfinished products from suppliers we no longer work with are all left inside the factory, waiting until the slow season for quality assurance to find time to conduct a full inspection to see whether they can still be used. After the inspection, usable items are simply left piled up with no next step, while unusable items are all returned to the suppliers (some items have been sitting there for so long that no one even knows whether the suppliers ultimately collected them). The office is mostly filled with personal belongings from the owner's family, piled in the corner of a desk. The fact that nothing collapsed during an earthquake shows how solid the foundation is. Also, if you place unfinished products or materials without following the warehouse staff's preferred placement or storage procedures, you will be scolded. If you put something in the wrong place, you will be immediately berated the first time, with questions like, "Why did you put it here?"

2. Personnel

The production process staff are generally fine, although there is some internal infighting (the foreign workers are fine; they are just a little cheeky). The indirect staff (office workers) basically spend their workdays only answering the phone and listening to the owner demand this or that. Except when the owner's wife is there and people chat a little, the office is otherwise so quiet it feels like mechanical work. There is a somewhat selfish atmosphere when it comes to cooperation (I did not really experience much cooperation). Even when someone assigned work to me, if the owner asked that person about it, they would simply answer that they did not know. There is no inclination to help one another; people just want to avoid being scolded as much as possible.

3. The owner

The owner's temper is really strange. When he is in a good mood, everything is fine, but when he is in a bad mood, he will drag your entire family and ancestors into his insults. He uses extremely offensive language when scolding people. Unfortunately, I did not record it, otherwise I could have collected another payout.

Also, if you explain something he does not want to hear, he will respond with things like, "I don't understand," "I don't want to listen," or "You're strange," repeatedly saying things such as "I don't understand," and may even belittle you.

5. Benefits

A welfare fee is collected every month, but the amount returned to employees from it is probably only a few hundred dollars. There are fewer than ten employees and owners combined, so why is a welfare fee still being collected?

The perfect-attendance bonus is fairly high, but as soon as you take leave, you lose NT$1,000.

6. Other

When requesting leave, you have to wait until after 8:00 before anyone answers the phone. New employees arrive early, while some people are late because they are long-time employees and the owner does not say anything. Even if you arrive early, you cannot leave at the end of the day if you have not finished the work in your hands, and there is no overtime pay unless you work more than one hour, among other things.

If you are going to interview at this company, be mentally prepared to completely comply with whatever the owner wants and do, and make sure to ask for clarification. You also need to be prepared for being sarcastically criticized for trying to help someone out of goodwill—for example, being asked why you are helping others when you cannot even take care of your own work. You will also need the superpower to predict what the owner wants done; otherwise, you may be berated until you lose your sense of self and feel like you would rather die.