Workplace reviews and discussion: 鑫品生醫科技股份有限公司

The supervisor does not manage anything.

After completing onboarding, there was no one in the office that day. I was told to find training subjects on my own, so as a new hire I could only ask around myself. Before passing the evaluation, I was assigned to R&D, and was also required to help others with R&D projects without receiving any performance credit.

It took nearly three months before I was exposed to process work, and the operating procedures did not match the forms. The supervisor said, “I tend to believe my own people,” so new hires could only study desperately on their own.

After passing the evaluation, I was sent on a business trip to Shenyang. I applied for a process engineer position, but in reality, two companies shared two employees. The partner company would even threaten employees’ personal safety to make them work. The job duties included resetting the laboratory, purchasing, environmental cleaning, business liaison, and technical meetings; I also had to be on call at all times to receive clients, handle technical issues, instruct operations, prevent technology leaks, and deal with other miscellaneous tasks.

The business trip included travel accident insurance only, not travel insurance. Transportation expenses had to be paid upfront. After returning home, the company said its business-trip policy would reimburse only half of the transportation costs. Although the original subsidy was stated as US$15, in practice only US$10 was provided. The trips were scheduled on holidays, and if leave was not applied for, no wages were paid.

The laboratory environment was poor, and a Mycoplasma infection caused coughing that did not improve for an entire month. The dormitory was also full of fleas and bedbugs, leaving bite marks all over my body. During three months in mainland China, I handled three projects (whereas in the previous year of cooperation, only one project had been received). After returning home, however, my management access and project scheduling permissions were revoked. The supervisor then called me in and asked, “Are you thinking of resigning?”—effectively pressuring me to quit.

At present, the colleagues who have returned from business trips have either resigned or refused to go again. Even with double pay, no one can be found who is willing to travel again.