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 how he views a situation. Depending on which role is most advantageous to him in a given circumstance, he chooses to act as the boss, a manager, or an employee.

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

There were at most four coworkers.

No overtime. Flexible start time from 8:30–9:00 and flexible end time from 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 motorcycles, and the restrooms are clean and well-lit.

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

He can completely act as though things he said or did never happened. He is highly skilled at talking, so if you need to work with him, be extremely cautious. Not only should you keep records of all communications, you should 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 routes that do not pass through locations with eTag, and motorcycle fuel expenses cannot be claimed either. Fuel reimbursement is NT$9 per kilometer, calculated by the person in charge based on map distance. If you report too many kilometers or include mileage from taking a wrong route, you will be called into the office and questioned.

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

The sales commission scheme was changed for the worse, with various calculations designed to exploit sales staff. It is unsuitable for people who want to make money.

For years, the company has underreported employees’ insured salary brackets for labor and health insurance. 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, he may not handle it).

The person in charge claims that he does not take sales commissions, but 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 method possible.

Basically, he bullies the weak and fears the strong. If you do not argue with him, he will assume he can keep pushing boundaries and taking advantage of you. He has a victim mentality: making even a small contribution leads him to believe he has given an enormous amount; if others hold firm to their boundaries and prevent him from taking advantage, he feels 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 develop new markets.

He neither respects nor values talent. He considers a one-person company his preferred state and believes the company only needs him.

Unless something concerns 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. Make sure to monitor your own account to check whether your salary has been deposited.

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

He says he hates emotions, but most often acts emotionally.

The job description mentioned irregular afternoon tea. When there were male employees, he would pressure them to pay together with him. Afternoon tea had a budget—for example, drinks could only cost under NT$70; if you wanted a NT$75 drink, you had to pay the extra NT$5 yourself. (There were only four employees at most.) Later, there was no more afternoon tea.

The organization is very small, so there are essentially no promotion issues.

Salary adjustments for sales staff are tied to performance targets; there is no fixed mechanism for regular raises.

There are some snacks in the office, replenished only when offerings are made during religious observances. Once they are gone, they are gone.

There are no employee trips, only an annual 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 expect anything.

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

That is all. Think carefully before joining.