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 a Xiao family business, with the boss, the boss’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 of over ten million would not consider the hourly pay at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center worthwhile.

What he wants is 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, and scam groups love people like that.

As for why it is 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 curses at people. Clocking in uses a cloud-based system, which means that at exactly 5:00 p.m. you have to clock in while at the job site or on your way back from it. That is how they avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, pretend this doesn’t exist. For newcomers, when you return from a job site, the boss uses various forms of emotional blackmail, sarcasm and stares from senior employees, and peer pressure to force you to stay at the company and do odd jobs under the pretext of “practice.” For senior employees, it is actually 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 company sends a work crew out, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. They even charge you for the boxed lunches sold at the construction-site canteen, and water goes without saying—if you fill up too much water from the office, the boss will complain at you.

4. Workplace atmosphere: It is much more pleasant at job sites than at the company, because returning to the company means entering an atmosphere of pressure. 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, pay: New hires earn less than 30,000, with a three-month probationary period. Raises depend on the boss’s mood and are 500 each time. Leadership positions are ridiculous too—only an additional 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 break 40,000. The holiday overtime pay is laughable: 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 boss keeps a close eye on how you use them, and you have to pay if they break. So people there basically prepare their own tools. There is one benefit, though: when you resign, you can just take them all with you.

7. Why haven’t they been sued? This goes back to what was mentioned earlier: soldiers are naïve and easy to deceive, so no labor dispute has erupted yet. After his brainwashing classes, every few months another fool gets tricked into joining his company. I’m writing this long post simply hoping to save people one at a time. Low-voltage electrical technicians are in very short supply in the job market, so don’t let this company deceive you.