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 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 motorcycles, and the restrooms are also clean and bright.

The person in charge has secretly taken or poached clients from his own sales staff more than once. Every sales employee he has had, except those who generated no value, has had conflicts with him. Reporting the issue to headquarters was also useless, so if you join this company as a salesperson, be careful.

He can completely act as if things he said or did never happened. He is very skilled at manipulating conversations. If you work with him, be extremely cautious: not only should you keep records of communications, you should also carefully assess each situation yourself.

Sales staff receive no phone allowance and are not provided with company phones. Fuel expenses cannot be claimed unless you drove through a location with eTag; motorcycle fuel expenses cannot be claimed either. Fuel reimbursement 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 the wrong route, he will call you into the office to question you.

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 was changed for the worse. The calculation method 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 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 the stable, good clients for himself and takes the good projects as well. The sales staff are given troublesome, trivial, lousy projects. You need strong business-development skills; otherwise, you can only be a civil servant collecting 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 for you using the cheapest method.

Basically, he is 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. When others hold their boundaries and prevent him from taking advantage, he feels that they have wronged him, that he has been betrayed, and that he is pitiable.

He lacks decisiveness in getting things done, 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 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 the Hangzhou colleagues 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 confirm that 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; despite being the host and organizer, he behaved like a child.

He says he hates emotional behavior, but he most often acts emotionally himself.

The job description mentions occasional afternoon tea. When there were male employees, he would pressure them to pay for afternoon tea with him. There was a budget—for example, drinks could only be ordered if they cost less 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 at all.

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 fixed salary-increase mechanism.

There are some snacks in the office. They are replenished only when offerings are made during religious 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 left.

That is all. Think carefully before joining.