Workplace reviews and discussion: 嬌妻廚具百貨有限公司

Smoke-free environment. The senior employees, other than the boss, treat apprentices kindly. The workplace is bright and clean.

The boss is not actually short-staffed. It may simply be a rehabilitation employment station cooperating with a government agency, intended to make former offenders feel that they are in a seemingly reasonable work environment. In reality, after about a month, the boss began to show his true colors. The promised training to become a technician and assistance with obtaining certification were all just word games. During the two-month employment period, the apprentice was not allowed even once to install a water heater independently from beginning to end. Even after the apprentice had learned how to install one, the boss would deliberately intervene every time and recite the same fixed script: "You've been here this long—can you actually do it or not?! Why can't you ever learn? Is this how I taught you?" "Do you even have the desire to learn?" "I really don't want to teach you!" "And you said you knew how to install it?! How did you install it like this?! Who taught you to do it this way? What's the next step? Is this right?" Ninety percent of it consisted of seemingly plausible but misleading RHETORIC (empty or fabricated statements). There was very little constructive guidance or instruction. Only his son still had some conscience and taught the apprentice fairly, although there were also two isolated instances of misleading the apprentice for selfish reasons. For the most part, his son was fairly responsible and taught without holding anything back. However, the person who truly had power was his father, the boss. If the boss did not like you as a person, he would force you to leave within three months. In the end, the boss would personally take out a "resignation application" and hand it to you, meaning that he wanted you to apply for resignation yourself—in other words, to resign voluntarily. You had no choice but to comply. Even if you refused to write it, you could not keep the job. Even if you temporarily managed to keep it, that would only be temporary; eventually, he would find an opportunity and a pile of reasons to force you out. Even when installing water heaters, he would intervene with the water pipes every time, refusing to let you complete the installation, adjust the lengths, or make the piping flow more smoothly. He always said, "As long as it doesn't leak water or gas during the exam, you pass." As for appearance or professionalism, he did not care. Then he would photograph these ugly pipes and show the photos to customers. Naturally, customers would not find them professional. Most importantly, for any joint with a gasket, the boss actually said that after hand-tightening it, you should tighten it another two turns with a tool. I do not agree with this. Basically, for a joint with a gasket, the most important thing is to use a tool to tighten it to the appropriate tightness. Tightening it another two turns with a tool completely ignores the proper degree of tightness; put bluntly, it means forcing it and turning it until it is stuck. This crushes and damages a perfectly good gasket, causing it to deteriorate and fatigue prematurely. If you simply force and overtighten it, is any skill even required? Anyone could install it! Pretending to be competent just because you hold a certificate does not work. Sorry, I do not buy it. Seeking facts and keeping my feet on the ground—that is my attitude toward plumbing, electrical, gas, and related work. It will never change. I detest this kind of superficially plausible pseudo-moralizing. From the first day of work, they had already labeled you. Someone even said, "Being wiretapped is also a kind of happiness. If it were me, I would openly let them wiretap me," and, "You can find different breakfast shops along the way and eat there." These bizarre, completely out-of-the-blue remarks make people feel chilled and suggest a deeply calculating mindset. If you treat someone as a former offender, you should treat them fairly, rather than labeling them and treating employees from a position of superiority. The master-apprentice relationship was not friendly at all, yet they still expected others to perform normally? Try switching roles and then giving your grand speeches. They wasted other people's lives as if they were garbage, with no respect whatsoever. Their own official statement was: "Help apprentices develop a specialized skill and assist them in obtaining certification." Although the boss's wife explained on the first day that you could use the microwave for lunch and drink the beverages in the refrigerator, those were all traps. Never take drinks from the refrigerator, and never use the microwave unless you have been there for more than three years. Those are tests of you—be sure to remember that. Every time you went out with the boss, you were lectured the entire way and verbally suppressed throughout. Any vocational high school graduate could install a water heater; the apprentice had done nothing wrong, but the boss would deliberately intervene and then verbally suppress you, undermining your confidence and making you feel defeated. His purpose was to make the apprentice feel worthless and incapable, then continue the suppression, finally saying things like: "Do you even have the desire to learn?" and "I'll give you one more week." It was simply that he disliked certain people; everything was based on subjective judgments. If you were a former offender—or if he decided that you were one—then you were relying on luck. Perhaps praying at a temple might give you a chance to stay. As the saying goes, when someone wants to punish you, what excuse could they lack? When the boss disliked you as a person, once the time came—generally within about three months—he would tell you to leave. Help with obtaining certification? Assistance in becoming a technician? It was all just word games. Take it with a grain of salt.