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

A company with fewer than five employees.

The person in charge decides his identity based on the situation. Depending on what is most advantageous to him, he chooses whether to act as the owner, 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, but if you need to take leave, it must always start from 8:30.

The physical facilities and equipment are good. The building has indoor parking for cars and motorcycles, 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 sales employee who generated any value has had conflicts with him. Reporting this to headquarters is useless, so if you join this company as a salesperson, be careful.

He can completely act as if things he has said or done never happened. He is very skilled with words. 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 trips that do not pass through locations with eTag, and motorcycle fuel expenses cannot be claimed either. 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 bonus scheme was changed for the worse. The calculation method has become exploitative in various ways and is unsuitable for people who want to earn 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 deal with it (and even if you do, he may not handle it).

The person in charge says he does not take performance bonuses, but keeps all the stable, good 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 be a civil servant earning a monthly salary.

If overtime is necessary, you must apply to the person in charge in advance and 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 think he can keep pushing further and will have no sense of boundaries. He has a victim mentality: making 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 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 believes a one-person company is his preferred state and seems to think the company only needs him.

Unless a matter concerns his own project, he generally pays little attention to work-related issues. 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.

He has forgotten to pay salaries more than once, so monitor your own account to make sure the payment has been deposited.

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

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

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 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.

Adjustments to sales salaries are tied to performance targets; there is no regular 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 a year-end dinner. The bonus is 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 colleague is a very nice person, but there is only one left.

That is all. Think carefully before joining.