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 what role to take based on the situation. Depending on which option benefits him most in a given circumstance, he chooses to act as the boss, a supervisor, or an employee.

The headquarters 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 scooters, and the restrooms are clean and well lit.

The person in charge has stolen or poached clients from his own sales employees more than once. Every former salesperson, except those who generated no value, has had conflicts with him. Reporting the issue to headquarters was also useless, so if you are joining this company as a salesperson, be careful.

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

Sales staff receive no phone-bill subsidy and no company vehicle. Fuel expenses cannot be claimed unless you drove through a location with eTag, and fuel expenses for scooters cannot be claimed either. Fuel is reimbursed at NT$9 per kilometer. The person in charge calculates the distance using a map; if you claim too much, or include mileage from taking the wrong route, you will be called into the office and questioned.

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

The sales bonus system was changed for the worse, and the calculation has become exploitative toward sales staff in various ways. It is unsuitable for people who want to make money.

For years, the company has underreported employees’ Labor Insurance and National 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 deal with it (although even if you do raise it, he may still not handle it).

The person in charge says he does not take performance bonuses, but keeps all the stable, high-quality clients for himself and takes the good projects as well. The salespeople 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 needed, you must apply to the person in charge in advance. Confirm with him whether there will be overtime pay and how it will be calculated; otherwise, he will find a way to calculate it for you using the cheapest method.

He is basically someone who bullies the weak and fears the strong. If you do not argue with him, he assumes he can keep pushing further and overstep all boundaries. He has a victim mentality: making even a small contribution leads him to believe he has given infinitely more; when others hold their boundaries and do not let him take advantage of them, he feels that they have wronged him, that he has been betrayed, and that he 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 believes that a one-person company is the state he likes best and feels that the company only needs him alone.

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

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

He is a man, but has neither backbone nor strength. When events are held, female employees carry more than he does; although he is the host and organizer, he behaves like a child.

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

The job description mentioned occasional afternoon tea. When there were male employees, he would pressure them to chip in with him. There was always a budget for afternoon tea—for example, drinks could only be ordered for 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). Later, there was no more afternoon tea either.

The organization is very small, so there are no real 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, replenished only when offerings are made. Once they are gone, they are gone.

There are no employee 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.