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 Hsiao 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 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 a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

What he wants is immediate access to those who have just left the military and are still inexperienced about the darker side of society.

That way, he can carry out his exploitation plan. Soldiers are easy to deceive, after all—scam operations love this kind of target.

As for why the company is unscrupulous:

1. Work environment: There is a morning meeting at 8 a.m. where the boss assigns tasks and work. Sometimes, if he is in a bad mood, he also berates people. Attendance is clocked through a cloud-based system, which means that at 5 p.m. sharp you have to clock out while still at the work site or on your way back from it. This allows the company to avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, assume 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 to 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 scolded by the boss. None of this is counted as overtime.

3. No meals provided: Normally, when a company sends a work crew out, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. Even boxed lunches sold at the construction-site convenience store are charged to you. As for water, don’t even get me started—if you fill too much water from the office, the boss will lecture you.

4. Workplace atmosphere: Things are much more pleasant at the work site 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 pushed down by the boss can, of course, only be taken out on newcomers.

5. Most importantly, the salary: Newcomers 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 equally laughable, with only an additional NT$500. There are technicians who have been with the company for three or four years and still earn less than NT$40,000 a month; they have to work overtime on holidays to exceed NT$40,000. The holiday overtime pay is also ridiculous—calculated out, it is less than what you would make doing day labor, at most just 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. Therefore, people there basically prepare their own tools. There is one advantage: when you resign, you can simply take everything with you.

7. Why hasn’t the company been sued? This goes back to what was mentioned earlier: soldiers are easily deceived and naïve. As a result, no labor dispute has broken out so far. After brainwashing people through his classes, every few months he manages to trick another fool into joining his company. I’m writing this long post simply hoping to save at least one person at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in high demand on the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.