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

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This is a predatory company parasitizing 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 opportunities for development.

The owner 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 would not look twice at the hourly teaching fees offered by a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

What he wants is first-hand access to those who have just been discharged from the military and are still naïve about the dark side of society.

That way, he can carry out his exploitation plan. Who wouldn’t be easy to deceive when it comes to soldiers? Fraud rings love this kind of target.

As for why it is predatory:

1. Work environment: There is a morning meeting at 8:00 a.m. where the owner gives instructions and assigns work; sometimes he also curses at people when he is in a bad mood. Clock-in is done through a cloud-based system, which means that at 5:00 p.m. you have to clock out while still at the job site, or clock out on your way back from the site. That way, they can avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, assume this does not exist. For newcomers, when you return from a job site, the owner uses various forms of emotional blackmail, as well as sarcastic remarks, intimidating stares, and peer pressure from senior employees, 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 owner—and none of this is counted as overtime.

3. No meals provided: Normally, when a company sends a crew to a job site, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. They even charge you for boxed lunches sold at the construction-site convenience store, and there is no need to mention the water—if you fill your bottle with too much water from the office, the owner will complain about it.

4. Workplace atmosphere: It is much more pleasant at the job site than at the office, because returning to the office means entering an atmosphere of constant gloom. 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, the salary: New hires earn less than 30,000, with a three-month probationary period. Raises depend on the owner’s mood and are 500 at a time. Even leadership positions are laughable—just +500. There are technicians who have been with the company for three or four years and still earn less than 40,000 a month; they have to work overtime on holidays just to exceed 40,000. The holiday overtime pay is particularly ridiculous: calculated out, it is less than what you would earn 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 owner closely monitors 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 advantage, though: when you leave, 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 naïve and easy to deceive. As a result, there have not yet been any major labor disputes. After the owner brainwashes people through his classes, every few months another fool gets tricked into joining his company. I am writing this long post simply to save whoever I can, one person at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in very short supply in the job market, so don’t let this company deceive you.