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

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This is an unscrupulous company parasitizing the Veterans Affairs Council’s vocational training system. It is owned by the Hsiao family, 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 nearly 20 employees and annual revenue of over ten million is not interested in the hourly teaching fees 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 darker side of society.

That way, he can carry out his exploitation plan. Soldiers are easy to deceive, after all—scam rings love people like that.

As for why it 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 will also yell at people. Clocking in and out is done through a cloud-based system, which means that at 5:00 p.m. sharp, you have to clock out at the work site or while on your way back from it. That is how they avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, pretend this thing does not exist. For newcomers, when you return from a work site, the boss will use all kinds 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 experienced employees, it is actually even worse, because after returning to the company, you 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 regular company sends a crew to a work site, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. You even have to pay for the boxed lunches sold at the construction-site commissary, and water goes without saying—you can even get lectured by the boss for filling too much water from the office.

4. Workplace atmosphere: Things are much more pleasant at the work 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 newcomers.

5. Most importantly, the salary: Newcomers earn less than 30,000, with a three-month probation period. Raises depend on the boss’s mood and are 500 each time. Leadership positions are also laughable: +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 particularly ridiculous—when calculated, it is less than what you would make doing day labor, at most a little 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 for any damage. As a result, people there basically prepare their own tools. There is one upside: when you resign, you can simply take them all with you.

7. Why hasn’t the company been sued? This goes back to what I said earlier: soldiers are easy to deceive and simple-minded, so no labor disputes have erupted yet. 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. Low-voltage electrical technicians are in high demand, so do not let this company deceive you.