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 circumstances. 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 from 8:30–9:00 and flexible end time from 17:30–18:00, but if you need to take leave, it must always be taken starting from 8:30.

The physical facilities and equipment are fairly good. The building has indoor parking for cars and motorcycles, and the restrooms are also clean and well lit.

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

He can completely act as if things he said or did never happened. He is very skilled with words, so if you work with him, be extremely cautious. Not only should you keep records of all communications, you should also carefully assess every situation yourself.

Sales staff receive no phone allowance and are not provided with company phones. Fuel expenses cannot be claimed for motorcycle travel, and for car travel, you cannot claim fuel expenses unless you pass through a location with eTag. The fuel reimbursement is NT$9 per kilometer. 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 expense 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, with various calculations that exploit sales staff. It is unsuitable for people who want to make money.

For years, the company has underreported employees’ salary brackets for Labor Insurance and National Health Insurance. If you join this company, check your insured salary bracket yourself. If you do not raise the issue, he will not deal with it (and even if you do, he may not handle it).

The person in charge says he does not take sales commissions, but keeps all the stable, high-quality clients for himself and takes the good projects as well. The sales staff are left with 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 you will receive overtime pay and how it will be calculated; otherwise, he will find a way to calculate it using the cheapest method.

He is basically 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: after contributing a little, he thinks he has contributed an enormous amount; when others hold their boundaries and prevent him from taking 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 considers a one-person company his ideal state and believes the company only needs him.

Unless a work-related matter concerns his own project, he basically pays little attention to it. If you need help with work, contacting colleagues in Hangzhou is more useful. However, he will spend time managing when 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 organizing events, female employees carry more things than he does, while he behaves like a child despite being the host and organizer.

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 treat him as well. There was a budget for afternoon tea—for example, drinks could only cost up to 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 at all.

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

Sales salary adjustments are tied to performance targets, and there is no fixed salary-increase mechanism.

There are some snacks in the office, replenished only when offerings are made during worship ceremonies. 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.