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

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This is a predatory company operating within the Veterans Affairs Council 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 career development.

The owner teaches classes at a Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

Basically, the owner of a company with nearly 20 employees and annual revenue exceeding NT$10 million looks down on the hourly wages at the Veterans Affairs Council vocational training center.

What he wants is immediate access to soldiers who have just left the military and are still naive and unaware of the dark side of society.

That way, he can carry out his exploitation plan. Soldiers are easy to deceive, after all—that’s exactly the kind of person scam groups like.

As for why this company is unscrupulous:

1. Working environment: There is a morning meeting at 8 a.m. where the owner assigns tasks and work. Sometimes, if he is in a bad mood, he berates people. Clocking in is done through a cloud-based system, which means that at exactly 5 p.m. you have to clock in while at the job site or on your way back from it. That way, the company can avoid paying overtime.

2. Overtime pay: Basically, pretend this doesn’t exist. For newcomers, when you return from a job site, the owner 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’s actually 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 company sends a crew out, the foreman covers meals and water. This company provides absolutely nothing. You even have to pay 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 owner will complain.

4. Workplace atmosphere: Things are much more pleasant at the job site than 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: naturally, they can only vent the pressure imposed by the owner on newcomers.

5. Most importantly, pay: New hires earn less than NT$30,000, with a three-month probation period. Raises depend on the owner’s mood and are NT$500 each time. Leadership positions are just as ridiculous, with only an additional NT$500. There are technicians who have worked at 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 laughable—calculated out, it is even less than what you would make as a day laborer, 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 owner closely monitors how you use them, and you have to pay for them if they break. So basically, everyone there prepares their own tools. There is one upside: when you quit, you can simply take them all with you.

7. Why hasn’t the company been sued? This goes back to what I said earlier: soldiers are naive and easy to deceive. Therefore, no labor disputes have erupted yet. After brainwashing people through his classes, every few months he manages to trick another fool into joining his company. I’m writing this long post just to save one person at a time. Low-voltage electrical professionals are in very short supply in the market, so don’t let this company deceive you.