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

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This is a predatory company embedded in the Veterans Affairs Council’s vocational training system. It is a Xiao family business, with the owner, the owner’s younger brother, son, daughter, and relatives controlling personnel and finances, so don’t expect any career development.

The owner teaches at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

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

What he wants is to make first contact with those who have just left the military and are still naïve about the dark side of society.

That way he can carry out his exploitation plan. Soldiers are easy to deceive, after all—scam groups love targets like these.

As for why it is unscrupulous:

1. Working environment: There is a morning meeting at 8 a.m. where the owner assigns tasks and work. Sometimes, if he is in a bad mood, he yells at people. Attendance is clocked in through a cloud-based system, which means that when 5 p.m. arrives, you have to clock out at the worksite or while on your way back from it. That way, the company can avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, treat this as if it does not exist. For newcomers, when you return from a worksite, the owner uses various forms of emotional pressure, sarcasm and pointed looks from senior employees, and peer pressure to force you to stay at the company and do miscellaneous tasks 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 owner—none of this is counted as overtime.

3. No meals provided: Normally, when a company sends a crew to a jobsite, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing; it even charges you for boxed lunches from the convenience shop at the construction site. There is no need to mention water—if you fill up too much water from the office, the owner will even complain about it.

4. Workplace atmosphere: Things are much more pleasant at the worksite than at the company, because returning to the company means entering an oppressive atmosphere. This is also why the senior employees here all have such terrible attitudes: the pressure imposed by the owner can only be vented on newcomers.

5. Most importantly, pay: Newcomers earn less than 30,000, with a three-month probationary period. Raises depend on the owner’s mood and are 500 each time. Leadership positions are laughable too—just an extra 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 on holidays to exceed 40,000. The holiday overtime pay is ridiculous; calculated out, it is less than what you would make as a day laborer—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 owner closely monitors how you use them, and you have to pay for any damage. So 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 said earlier: soldiers are easy to deceive and naïve, so no labor disputes have broken out 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 one person at a time. Low-voltage electrical workers are in very short supply, so don’t let this company deceive you.