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 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 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 care about the hourly pay at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

What he wants is first-hand access to people who have just left the military and are still simple and unaware of the darker side of society.

That way he can carry out his exploitation plan. Who wouldn’t be easy to deceive? Soldiers are exactly the kind that scam groups like most.

As for why it is predatory:

1. Working 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 also berates people. Attendance is recorded through a cloud-based system, which means that at 5:00 p.m. you have to clock out while still at the work site or on your way back from it, so that overtime pay can be avoided.

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 blackmail, sarcastic remarks and stares from veteran employees, and peer pressure to force you to stay at the company and do odd jobs under the pretext of practice. For veteran 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 company sends a work crew out, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. It even charges you for boxed lunches sold at the construction-site convenience store, and water goes without saying—you may get lectured by the boss for filling too much water from the office.

4. Workplace atmosphere: It is 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 veteran employees here all have such bad attitudes: the pressure pushed down by the boss can naturally only be vented on newcomers.

5. Most importantly, pay: Newcomers 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 also laughable: +500. There are technicians who have worked at the company for three or four years but earn less than 40,000 a month, and they still have to work on holidays to exceed 40,000. The holiday overtime pay is ridiculous; 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 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 was mentioned earlier: soldiers are easy to deceive and naive, so no labor disputes have broken out yet. After being brainwashed in his classes, every few months some fool is tricked into joining his company. I am writing this long post simply hoping to save at least one person at a time. Low-voltage electrical technicians are in very short supply on the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.