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

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This is a black-hearted 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 of this company teaches classes at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

Basically, the owner of a company with fewer than 20 employees and annual revenue exceeding ten million is not 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 left the military and, still unaware of the dark side of society, are naive soldiers.

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

As for why it is black-hearted:

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 will also yell at people. Attendance is recorded through a cloud-based system, which means that at 5 p.m. sharp, you have to clock out at the work site or on your way back from the site. That way, they can avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, just pretend this does not exist. For new employees, when you return from the 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 miscellaneous tasks in the name 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. They even charge you for boxed lunches sold at the construction-site canteen, and water goes without saying—even filling too much water from the office dispenser will get you scolded by the boss.

4. Workplace atmosphere: It is much more pleasant at the work site than at the company, because returning to the company means entering a high-pressure environment. This is also why the veteran employees here all have such terrible attitudes: the pressure imposed by the boss can of course only be vented on new employees.

5. Most importantly, the pay: New employees earn less than 30,000 per month and have a three-month probationary period. Raises depend on the boss’s mood and are 500 each time. Leadership positions are also laughable—just an extra 500. There are technicians who have been with the company for three or four years and earn less than 40,000 a month; they have to work on holidays to exceed 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 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 take them all with you.

7. Why hasn’t the company been sued? This goes back to what I mentioned earlier: soldiers are naive and easy to deceive. Therefore, there have not yet been any labor disputes. 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 simply hoping to save at least one person at a time. Low-voltage technicians are in very short supply on the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.