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 is someone who decides what role to take based on the situation. Depending on which option benefits him most, he chooses 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 colleagues.

No overtime. Flexible start time is 8:30–9:00, and flexible end time is 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 quite 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 issue to headquarters is useless, so if you are considering joining 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 each situation yourself.

Sales staff receive no phone allowance and have no company vehicles. Fuel expenses cannot be claimed unless you drove through a location 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 maps; if you claim too much or include mileage from taking an incorrect 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. The calculation has become highly exploitative of sales staff, so this 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 still not handle it).

The person in charge says that he does not take performance bonuses, but he keeps the stable, high-quality clients for himself and takes the good projects as well. The salespeople are given only troublesome, tedious, low-quality projects. You need to be very capable at business development; 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. You must 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 possible 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: making even a small contribution leads him to believe he has given an enormous amount, and when others hold their boundaries and prevent him from taking 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 something concerns 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 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 carried more things than he did, and although he was the host and organizer, he acted like a child.

He says he hates emotional behavior most, 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 split the cost 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 NT$5 yourself (there were only four employees at most). Later, there was no more afternoon tea either.

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

Adjustments to sales salaries are tied to performance targets; there is no fixed mechanism for raises.

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

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

That is all. Think carefully before joining.