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 circumstances. Depending on which role is most advantageous to him in a given situation, he chooses to act as the boss, supervisor, or employee.

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

There were at most four colleagues.

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

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

The person in charge has stolen or poached clients from his own sales staff more than once. Every sales employee who had any significant output has had conflicts with him. Reporting the issue to headquarters is useless, so if you are joining this company as a salesperson, please be careful.

He is capable of treating things he has said and done as if they never happened. He is very skilled with words, so if you have to work with him, be extremely cautious. Not only should you keep records of your communications, you should also carefully assess the situation for yourself.

Sales staff receive no phone allowance and no company vehicle. Fuel expenses cannot be claimed unless you drove through a location with eTag, and scooter fuel expenses cannot be claimed either. Fuel is reimbursed at NT$9 per kilometer, calculated by the person in charge based on map distance. If you report too much, or if the mileage from taking a wrong route is included, 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 system was changed for the worse. The calculation has become highly exploitative of sales staff 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 still not handle it).

The person in charge claims that he does not take performance bonuses, but he keeps all the stable, high-quality clients for himself and takes the good projects as well. The sales staff 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 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; if others hold 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 getting things done, believes that cost is everything, and does not dare to develop new markets.

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

Unless something is related to one of his own projects, 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 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 in charge, he behaved like a child.

He says he hates emotional behavior the 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 bill with him. There was a budget for afternoon tea; for example, drinks could only be ordered if they cost under NT$70, and 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 basically no promotion issues.

Salary adjustments for sales staff are tied to performance targets; there is no fixed pay-raise mechanism.

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

There are no employee trips, only an end-of-year 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 colleague is a very nice person, but there is only one left.

That is all. Think carefully before joining.