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 what is most advantageous to him, he chooses whether to act as the boss, a supervisor, or an employee.

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

There were at most four coworkers.

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'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 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 matter to the head office is 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 very skilled with words. If you need to 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 drove through a location with eTag. Fuel reimbursement is NT$9 per kilometer. The person in charge calculates the distance using a map; 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 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. The calculation has become exploitative in various ways and is unsuitable 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 deal with it (although even if you do raise it, he may not deal with 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 salespeople are given only troublesome, trivial, low-quality projects. You need to be very good at developing business; otherwise, you can only work like a civil servant for a monthly salary.

If overtime is required, 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 assumes he can keep pushing further and has no sense of boundaries. He has a victim mentality: after contributing a little, he believes he has contributed an enormous amount; if others hold firm to 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 and believes cost is everything, so he does not dare to develop new markets.

He neither respects nor values talent. He believes that a one-person company is his ideal state and also thinks the company only needs him.

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

He has forgotten to pay salaries more than once. Check your own account carefully 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 than he does; although he is the host and organizer, he acts like a child.

He says he hates emotional behavior, but most often acts based on emotions.

The job description mentioned occasional afternoon tea. When there were male employees, he would pressure them to help pay for it. There was a budget for afternoon tea—for example, drinks had to cost no more than 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.

Salary adjustments for sales staff are tied to performance targets; there is no regular salary-increase mechanism.

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

There are no employee trips, only a 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 remaining coworker is a very nice person, but there is only one left.

That is all. Think carefully before joining.