Workplace: Head office

The boss’s wife likes to micromanage and requires employees to write daily work logs. The HR manager proudly said that he records what he has done and how many calls he has made every two hours. The HR manager does not understand people very well and is not very good at communicating with them; he always only responds with company regulations and the Labor Standards Act, regardless of whether employees can understand him. An error in reporting during parental leave resulted in an employee being forced to receive two additional months of benefits. HR simply deducted the benefit amount from the year-end bonus, saying that since the employee had already received the money, the company could pay less. Please note that the deadline for compensatory leave for overtime is only six months, not the same as the deadline for annual leave. A complaint was filed with the Labor Bureau, but the bureau does not accept anonymous complaints and requires the victim’s name to be disclosed. The company enforces a strict clock-in system. If there is a missed punch or overtime, the head office will send someone to review surveillance footage and strictly check whether the employee was actually working overtime and whether anyone clocked in on someone else’s behalf. This is a company where foreigners are favored over Taiwanese people. As long as you are of the “right” ethnicity, you can earn a high salary while doing very little, and the boss will assign miscellaneous tasks to Taiwanese employees. Whenever a foreign employee complains, the boss will basically comply 87% of the time and is not very willing to go against the foreign employee’s wishes.