Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣歐瑞科技股份有限公司

A company with fewer than five employees.

The person in charge is someone who decides what role to assume based on the situation. Depending on which role is most advantageous to him, he chooses to act as the boss, a supervisor, or an employee.

The head office is in Hangzhou, China, and Taiwan is a branch office.

There were at most four colleagues.

No overtime. Flexible start time from 8:30–9:00 and flexible end time from 17:30–18:00, but if you need to take leave, it must always start from 8:30.

The office’s hardware and facilities are quite good. The building has indoor parking for cars and motorcycles, and the restrooms are clean and well lit.

The person in charge has secretly taken or poached clients from his own sales staff more than once. Every sales employee, except those who generated no value, has had conflicts with him. Reporting the issue to the head office was useless, so if you are considering joining this company as a sales employee, be careful.

He can completely act as if things he has said or done never happened, and he is very skilled with words. If you work with him, proceed with extreme caution: not only should you keep records of communications, you should also carefully assess each situation yourself.

Sales staff receive no telephone allowance and are not provided with company vehicles. Fuel expenses cannot be claimed unless you drive through a location with eTag; motorcycle fuel expenses cannot be claimed either. The fuel subsidy is NT$9 per kilometer. The person in charge calculates the distance using a map, and if you claim too much or include mileage from taking a wrong route, you will be called into the office and questioned.

There is no client entertainment budget, because the person in charge himself does not cultivate relationships with clients, so this expense is not provided.

The sales bonus system was changed for the worse, and the calculations became exploitative in various ways. It is unsuitable for people who want to make money.

For years, the company has underreported employees’ labor and health insurance salary brackets. If you join this company, check your insured salary bracket yourself. If you do not raise the issue, he will not handle it (although even if you do raise it, he may still not handle it).

The person in charge says that he does not receive performance bonuses, but he keeps all the stable, good clients for himself and takes the good projects as well. The sales staff are given only troublesome, tedious, low-quality projects. You need to be very capable at developing new business; otherwise, you can only work like a civil servant for a monthly salary.

If overtime is needed, you must apply to the person in charge in advance. You must confirm with him whether overtime pay will be provided and how it will be calculated; otherwise, he will find a way to calculate it using the cheapest method possible.

Basically, he is someone who bullies the weak and fears the strong. If you do not challenge him, he will think he can keep pushing further and will have no sense of boundaries. He has a victim mentality: making even a small contribution leads him to believe he has given an enormous amount; if others enforce their boundaries and prevent him from taking advantage of them, he feels that they have wronged him, betrayed him, and that he is pitiful.

He lacks decisiveness in his work, believes cost is everything, and does not dare to explore new markets.

He neither respects nor values talent. He believes that a one-person company is the state he prefers most, and also feels that the company only needs him alone.

Unless something related to work concerns one of his own projects, he basically pays little attention to it. If you need help with work-related matters, it is more useful to contact colleagues in Hangzhou. However, he will spend time managing what time these three or four employees eat lunch.

He has forgotten to pay salaries more than once, so check your own account carefully to make sure your salary has been deposited.

He is a man, but has neither backbone nor strength. When organizing events, female employees carried more things than he did; although he was the host and organizer, he acted like a child.

He says he hates emotional behavior, but most often acts emotionally himself.

The job description mentioned occasional afternoon tea. When there were male employees, he would pressure them to pay together with him. There was a budget for afternoon tea—for example, drinks could only be ordered if they cost under NT$70; if you wanted a NT$75 drink, you had to pay the extra five dollars yourself (there were only four employees at most). In the later period, there was no more afternoon tea either.

The organization is very small, so there are not really any promotion issues.

Adjustments to sales salaries are tied to performance targets; there is no fixed salary-increase mechanism.

There are some snacks in the office. They are replenished only when offerings are made for religious observances; once they are gone, they are gone.

There are no employee trips, only a year-end dinner. Bonuses are at most around NT$3,000, and the person in charge even competes with everyone else for the red envelopes. Do not have any expectations.

The remaining colleague is a very nice person, but there is only one left.

That is all. Think carefully before joining.