Workplace reviews and discussion: 全盛科技有限公司

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This is a black-hearted company exploiting the Veterans Affairs Council’s vocational training system. It is a Hsiao family business, with the boss, the boss’s younger brother, son, daughter, and relatives controlling personnel and finances, so don’t even think about any career development.

The boss teaches classes at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

Basically, the owner of a company with nearly 20 employees and annual revenue exceeding ten million is not interested in the hourly teaching fee at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

What he wants is first-hand access to those simple-minded soldiers who have just left the military and do not yet understand the dark side of society.

That way he can carry out his exploitation plan. Soldiers are easy to deceive, after all—scam groups like this type of person the most.

As for why the company is unscrupulous:

1. Working environment: There is a morning meeting at 8:00 a.m., where the boss assigns tasks and work. Sometimes, if he is in a bad mood, he curses at people. Clocking in and out is done through a cloud-based system, which means that once 5:00 p.m. arrives, you have to clock out at the job site or while on your way back from the job site. That way, the company can avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, just pretend this thing does not exist. For new employees, when you return from a job site, the boss uses various forms of emotional blackmail, sarcastic remarks and stares from senior employees, and peer pressure to force you to stay at the company and do odd jobs in the name of “practice.” For senior employees, it is actually even worse, because after returning to the company they have to fill out all kinds of forms, submit official documents, and get yelled at by the boss. None of this is counted as overtime.

3. No meals provided: Normally, when a legitimate company sends a work crew out, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. They even charge you for boxed meals sold at the construction-site convenience store, and water goes without saying—if you fill up too much water from the office, the boss will complain.

4. Workplace atmosphere: Things are much more pleasant at the job site than at the company, because returning to the company means entering a tense, oppressive atmosphere. This is also why the senior employees here all have such terrible attitudes: the pressure imposed by the boss can, of course, only be vented on new employees.

5. Most importantly, the pay: New employees earn less than 30,000, with a three-month probationary period. Raises depend on the boss’s mood and are 500 each time. Leadership positions are also laughable—an extra 500. There are technicians who have been with the company for three or four years and earn less than 40,000 a month; they have to work overtime on holidays to exceed 40,000. The holiday overtime pay is especially ridiculous: calculated out, it is less than what you would make doing day labor, at most just over 1,000.

6. Tools: The company does not provide basic tools and requires you to buy your own. Although there are shared power tools, the boss keeps a close eye on how you use them, and you have to pay for any damage. As a result, people there basically prepare their own tools. There is one benefit, though: when you resign, you can simply take everything with you.

7. Why hasn’t the company been sued? This goes back to what was mentioned earlier: soldiers are easy to deceive and naïve, so no labor disputes have erupted yet. After being brainwashed in his classes, every few months some fool gets tricked into joining his company. I am writing this long post simply hoping to save one person at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in great demand in the market—don’t let this company deceive you.