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

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This is a shady company parasitically operating within 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 teaches classes at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

Basically, the owner of a company with nearly 20 employees and annual revenue exceeding NT$10 million looks down on the hourly teaching fees at the Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

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

That way, he can carry out his exploitation plan. Who wouldn’t be easy to deceive? Soldiers are easy to trick, and scam groups love people like this.

As for why it’s unscrupulous:

1. Work 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 yell at people. Attendance is clocked in through a cloud-based system, which means that when 5:00 p.m. arrives, you have to clock out at the work site or while on your way back from the site. This allows them to avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, pretend this does not exist. For new employees, when you return from a work 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 miscellaneous tasks under the pretext 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 regular company sends a work crew out, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. They even charge you for the boxed meals sold at the construction-site canteen, and there is no need to mention the water—if you fill up too much water from the office, the boss will complain about it.

4. Workplace atmosphere: It is much more pleasant at the work site than at the company, because returning to the company means entering a high-pressure environment. This is also why the senior employees here all have such terrible attitudes: naturally, they can only vent the pressure imposed by the boss on new employees.

5. Most importantly, the salary: New employees earn less than NT$30,000, with a three-month probationary period. Raises depend on the boss’s mood and are NT$500 each time. Leadership positions are also laughable—just NT$500 more. There are technicians who have been with the company for three or four years and earn less than NT$40,000 a month, and they have to work overtime on holidays to exceed NT$40,000. The holiday overtime pay is ridiculous; calculated out, it is even less than what you would make doing day labor—at most a little over NT$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. So basically, everyone there prepares their own tools. There is one advantage, though: when you resign, you can simply take everything with you.

7. Why hasn’t the company been sued? This goes back to what I said earlier: soldiers are easy to deceive and naïve, so there have not yet been any labor disputes. After brainwashing people in his classes, every few months he manages to trick some fool into joining his company. I’m writing this long post simply to save one person at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in short supply on the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.