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 owner, the owner’s younger brother, son, daughter, and relatives controlling personnel and finances, so don’t expect any prospects for advancement.

The owner of this company 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 be interested in the hourly teaching fee at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

What he wants is first-hand access to those simple, newly discharged soldiers who are still unaware of the dark side of society.

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

As for why this company is unscrupulous:

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 berates people. Clocking in is done through a cloud-based system, which means that at 5 p.m. you have to clock out while you are still at the job site or on your way back from it. That way, the company can avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, treat this as if it doesn’t exist. For new employees, when you return from a job site, the owner uses various forms of emotional pressure, sarcastic remarks and watchful behavior 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 yelled at by the owner. None of this is counted as overtime.

3. No meals provided: Normally, when a regular company sends a work crew out, the foreman provides meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. You even have to pay 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: Being at a job site is much more pleasant than being at the company, because returning to the company means entering an oppressive atmosphere. This is also why the senior employees here all have such terrible attitudes: the pressure imposed by the owner can only be vented on newcomers.

5. Most importantly, the salary: New employees earn less than 30,000, with a three-month probationary period. Raises depend on the owner’s mood and are 500 each time. Even taking on a leadership role gets you only another 500. There are technicians who have worked at the company for three or four years and earn less than 40,000 a month; they have to work overtime on holidays just to exceed 40,000. The holiday overtime pay is ridiculous—calculated out, it is less than what you would earn doing day labor, 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 owner closely monitors 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 all your tools 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 disputes have broken out yet. After brainwashing people in his classes, every few months he manages to trick another fool 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 on the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.