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

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This is a shameless company parasitizing the Veterans Affairs Council’s vocational training system. It is a business 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 of this company teaches classes at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

Basically, a company boss whose business has nearly 20 employees and annual revenue of over ten million would not care about the hourly teaching fee 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 innocent and unfamiliar with the darker side of society.

That is how he can carry out his exploitation plan. After all, soldiers are easy to deceive—the scammers love this kind of target.

As for why it is exploitative:

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. Clocking in and out is done through a cloud-based system, which means that when 5 p.m. arrives, you have to clock out at the worksite or while on your way back from the worksite. That way, the company can avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, assume this does not exist. For newcomers, when you return from a worksite, 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 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 counts as overtime.

3. No meals provided: Normally, when a company sends a crew to a jobsite, 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, and water goes without saying—if you fill up too much water from the office, the boss will lecture you.

4. Workplace atmosphere: It is much more pleasant at the worksite than at the company, because returning to the company means entering an atmosphere of tension. This is also why the senior employees here have such terrible attitudes: the pressure imposed by the boss can only be vented on newcomers.

5. Most importantly, the pay: 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. Even leadership positions are a joke—just NT$500 more. 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 to exceed NT$40,000. The holiday overtime pay is especially 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 if they break. So basically, everyone there prepares their own tools. There is one advantage, though: when you resign, you can simply take all of them with you.

7. Why hasn’t the company been sued? This goes back to what I said earlier: soldiers are easy to deceive and naïve, so there have not yet been any major labor disputes. After brainwashing them through his classes, every few months he manages to trick another fool into joining his company. I wrote this long post only hoping to save one person at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in very short supply in the market, so do not let this company deceive you.