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

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This is a predatory company operating within 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 at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

Basically, the owner of a company with nearly 20 employees and annual revenue exceeding ten million does not consider the hourly pay at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center worthwhile.

What he wants is first-hand access to soldiers who have just left the military and do not yet understand the darker side of society.

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

As for why it is predatory:

1. Work environment: There is a morning meeting at 8 a.m. where the owner gives instructions and assigns work; sometimes, if he is in a bad mood, he also verbally abuses people. Attendance is clocked in through a cloud-based system, which means that as soon as 5 p.m. arrives, you have to clock in at the work site or while still 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 work site, the owner uses various forms of emotional blackmail, sarcastic comments and stares from senior workers, and peer pressure to force you to stay at the company and do miscellaneous tasks in the name of practice. For senior workers, 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 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 convenience store, and water goes without saying—if you fill up too much water from the office, the owner will complain.

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 workers here all have such terrible attitudes: the pressure imposed by the owner can 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 owner’s mood and are 500 each time. Leadership positions are also laughable, with only an additional 500. There are technicians who have been with the company for three or four years but earn less than 40,000 per month, and they have to work overtime on holidays to exceed 40,000. The holiday overtime pay is ridiculous—after calculation, it is even less than what you would make doing day labor, at most just over 1,000.

6. Tools: The company does not provide basic tools and makes you buy your own. Although there are shared power tools, the owner keeps a close eye on 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: when you resign, 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 easy to deceive and naïve, so no labor disputes have broken out yet. After brainwashing people through his classes, every few months some fool gets tricked into joining his company. I am writing this long post only to save as many people as possible, one at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in very short supply in the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.