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

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This is a shady company parasitic on 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 opportunities for 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 be interested in the hourly teaching fee at 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 simple-minded and unaware of society’s dark side.

That way, he can carry out his exploitation plan. Who said soldiers were easy to deceive? Fraud rings love this kind of person.

As for why it is unscrupulous:

1. Work environment: There is a morning meeting at 8:00 a.m. where the boss gives instructions and assigns work; sometimes, if he is in a bad mood, he also verbally abuses people. Attendance is clocked through a cloud-based system, which means that when 5:00 p.m. arrives, you have to clock out while you are still at the work site or on your way back from it. 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 boss uses various forms of emotional blackmail, sarcastic remarks 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 even worse, because after returning to the company, they have to fill out all kinds of forms, submit official documents, and get berated by the boss—none of this is counted as overtime.

3. No meals provided: Normally, when a legitimate company sends a work crew out, the foreman covers meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing; they even charge you for the boxed meals sold at the construction-site canteen. As for water, there is no need to mention it—if you fill up too much water from the office, the boss will complain about it.

4. Workplace atmosphere: It is much more pleasant at the work site than at the company, because returning to the company means walking into a high-pressure atmosphere. This is also why the senior employees here all have such terrible attitudes: the pressure imposed by the boss can only be taken out on the 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 at a time. Leadership positions are just as laughable, with only an additional NT$500. There are technicians who have been with the company for three or four years and earn less than NT$40,000 a month; they have to work overtime on holidays just to exceed NT$40,000. The holiday overtime pay is especially ridiculous—when calculated, it is less than what you would earn as a day laborer, at most just over NT$1,000.

6. Tools: The company does not provide basic tools and makes you buy your own. Although there are shared power tools, the boss closely monitors how you use them, and you have to pay for any damage. Therefore, people there generally prepare their own tools. There is one advantage, though: 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 simple-minded, so no labor dispute has broken out yet. After brainwashing people through his classes, every few months he manages to trick another fool into joining his company. I am writing this long post only in the hope of saving at least one person at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in short supply in the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.