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 which role is most advantageous to him in a given circumstance, he chooses to act as the owner, a supervisor, 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, but if you need to take leave, it must always be taken starting 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 stolen or poached 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 was also useless, so if you are joining 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 verbal manipulation. If you work with him, be extremely cautious: not only should you keep records of all communication, you must also carefully assess every situation yourself.

Sales staff receive no phone-bill subsidy and are not provided with company phones. Fuel expenses cannot be claimed for travel by car unless you pass through locations with eTag; scooter fuel expenses cannot be claimed either. Fuel reimbursement is NT$9 per kilometer. The person in charge calculates the distance using a map, and if you report too much mileage 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 bonus system was changed for the worse. The calculation method now exploits sales staff in various ways, so this company is not suitable 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 sales commissions, but he 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 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 possible.

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 his limits and will show no sense of boundaries. He has a victim mentality: making even a small contribution leads him to believe he has given infinitely more, and when others hold their boundaries and refuse to let him take advantage of them, he feels that they have wronged him, betrayed him, and that he is pitiful.

He lacks decisiveness in his work, believes that 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 his preferred state and feels that the company only needs him.

Unless something is related to his own projects, he basically pays little attention to work-related matters. If you need assistance with work, 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 monitor your own account to make sure your salary is deposited.

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

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

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

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

Sales salary adjustments come with performance targets; there is no regular salary-increase mechanism.

There are some snacks in the office. They are replenished only when offerings are made for religious worship; 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 have any expectations.

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

That’s all. Think carefully before joining.