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

A company with fewer than five employees.

The company owner is someone who decides his identity based on the situation. Depending on what is most advantageous to him, he chooses whether to act as the boss, supervisor, or 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 is 8:30–9:00, and flexible end time is 17:30–18:00. However, if you need to take leave, it must always start from 8:30.

The office’s hardware and facilities are good. The building has indoor parking for cars and scooters, and the restrooms are clean and bright.

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

He can completely act as though things he has said and done never happened. He is very skilled with words. If you need to work with him, be extremely cautious: not only should you keep records of all communication, you must also carefully assess each situation yourself.

Sales staff receive no phone allowance and are not provided with company phones. Fuel expenses cannot be claimed for travel unless you drive through a location with eTag; scooter fuel expenses cannot be claimed either. Fuel is reimbursed at NT$9 per kilometer, and the person in charge calculates the distance using map data. If you report too many kilometers, or include mileage from taking the wrong route, you will be called into the office and questioned.

There is no public-relations budget. The person in charge himself does not cultivate relationships with clients, so this expense is not provided.

The sales commission system was changed for the worse. The calculation has become exploitative in various ways and 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 not handle it).

The person in charge says that he does not take performance bonuses, but he keeps the stable, high-quality clients for himself and takes the good projects as well. The sales staff are given only troublesome, trivial, low-quality projects. You need strong business-development skills; otherwise, you can only work like a civil servant for a monthly salary.

If overtime is necessary, you must apply to the person in charge in advance. 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 possible method.

He is basically someone who bullies the weak and fears the strong. If you do not challenge him, he will assume he can keep pushing and will have no sense of limits. He has a victim mentality: making even a small contribution leads him to believe he has given infinitely more; if others hold their boundaries and prevent him from taking advantage, he feels that they have wronged him and that he has been betrayed and is pitiful.

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

He neither respects nor values talent. He seems to prefer the company being a one-person operation and believes the company only needs him.

Unless something concerns his own project, he basically pays little attention to work-related matters. If you need assistance with work, contacting colleagues in Hangzhou is more useful. 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 than he did, and although he was the host and organizer, he behaved like a child.

He says he hates emotional behavior, but he most often acts based on emotion.

The job description mentioned occasional afternoon tea. When there were male employees, he would pressure them to pay for it together with him. There was a budget for afternoon tea—for example, drinks had to cost no more than 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.) Later, there was no more afternoon tea.

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

Salary adjustments for sales staff 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, so once they are gone, they are gone.

There are no company trips, only an end-of-year 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 expect anything.

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

That is all. Think carefully before joining.