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

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This is a black-hearted company parasitically operating within 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 expect any career development.

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

Basically, the owner of a company with fewer than 20 employees but 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 soldiers who have just left the military and are still unaware of the dark side of society.

That way, he can carry out his exploitation plan. After all, soldiers are easy to deceive—scam rings love this kind of target.

As for why this 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 also curses at people. Attendance is recorded through a cloud-based system, which means that once 5:00 p.m. arrives, you have to clock out at the work site or while you are on your way back from the site. That way, the company can avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, assume that this does not exist. For newcomers, when you return from a work site, the boss uses various forms of emotional manipulation, sarcastic remarks and stares from senior employees, and peer pressure to force you to stay at the company and do odd jobs under the guise 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: Generally, when a normal company sends a work crew out, the foreman covers meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. You even have to pay for the boxed meals sold at the construction-site commissary, and there is no need to mention water—if you fill too much water from the office dispenser, the boss will lecture you.

4. Workplace atmosphere: Working at a site is much more pleasant than being at the company, because returning to the company means entering an atmosphere of oppressive tension. This is also why the senior employees here all have such terrible attitudes: naturally, the pressure imposed by the boss can only be vented on newcomers.

5. Most importantly, the salary: New hires earn less than 30,000, with a three-month probationary period. Raises depend on the boss’s mood and amount to +500 each time. Leadership positions are equally ridiculous: +500. There are technicians who have been with the company for three or four years but earn less than 40,000 a month, and they have to work overtime on holidays to exceed 40,000. The holiday overtime pay is especially laughable; 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 expects 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 if they break. As a result, people there basically prepare their own tools. There is one advantage: when you resign, you can simply take them all 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 there have not yet been any major labor disputes. After brainwashing people in his classes, every few months he manages to trick another fool into joining his company. I am writing this long post simply hoping to save at least one person at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in very short supply in the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.