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 benefits him most in a given circumstance, he chooses to act as the boss, a manager, or an employee.

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

There were at most four colleagues.

No overtime. Flexible starting hours are 8:30–9:00, and flexible finishing hours are 17:30–18:00. However, if you need to take leave, it must always start from 8:30.

The office hardware and facilities themselves are good. The building has indoor parking for cars and motorcycles, and the restrooms are clean and bright.

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

He can completely pretend that things he has said and done never happened, and he is very skilled with words. If you have to work with him, be extremely cautious: not only should you keep records of your communications, you must 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 motorcycle travel, and for car travel, you cannot claim fuel expenses unless you drove through a location with eTag. The fuel allowance is NT$9 per kilometer. The person in charge calculates the distance based on map routes; if you claim too much 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 bonus scheme has been changed for the worse. The calculation has become highly exploitative of sales staff, so this company is not suitable for people who want to make money.

For years, the company has underreported employees’ 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 still not handle it.

The person in charge says that he does not take performance bonuses, but he keeps the stable, high-value 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 overtime pay will be provided 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 boundaries and take advantage of you. He has a victim mentality: making even a small contribution leads him to believe he has given infinitely more, and when others hold firm to their boundaries and prevent him from taking advantage, he feels that 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 seems to prefer the state of being a one-person company and believes the company only needs him.

Unless something is related to his own project, he basically pays little attention to work-related matters. 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 lunch.

He has forgotten to pay salaries more than once, so 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 carried more than he did; although he was the host and organizer, he behaved like a child.

He says he hates emotional behavior, 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 pay together with him. There was a budget for afternoon tea—for example, drinks could only cost less than 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 not really any promotion issues.

Salary adjustments for sales staff come with performance targets; there is no fixed mechanism for regular raises.

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 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 have any expectations.

The one remaining colleague is a very nice person.

That is all. Think carefully before joining.