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 own identity based on the situation. Depending on what is most advantageous to him in different circumstances, he chooses whether 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 start from 8:30.

The office hardware and facilities themselves 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. All former sales employees, except those who generated no value, have 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 pretend that things he has said and done never happened. He is very skilled with words. If you have to work with him, be extremely cautious: not only should you keep records of what was discussed, you should also carefully assess the situation yourself.

Sales employees 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 scooter fuel expenses cannot be claimed either. Fuel is reimbursed at 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 for questioning.

There is no public-relations expense budget. The person in charge himself does not build relationships with clients, so this expense is not provided.

The sales bonus system was changed for the worse, and the calculation method has become exploitative in various ways. It 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 he does not take performance bonuses, but he 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 to be very capable at business development; otherwise, you can only work like a civil servant for a monthly salary.

If overtime is needed, 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 argue with 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 refuse to let him take advantage of them, he feels that they have wronged him and that he has been betrayed and is pitiful.

He lacks decisiveness in doing things, believes that cost is everything, and does not dare to explore new markets.

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

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.

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 things than he did, and although he was the host and organizer, he acted like a child.

He says he hates emotions the most, 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 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 on, 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 pay-raise 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. 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 coworker left.

That is all. Think carefully before joining.