Workplace reviews and discussion: 音律電子股份有限公司

Bosses who change their minds constantly, making decisions in the morning and reversing them by evening, are overly focused on details and hold meetings for a sense of security. They assign tasks without clear objectives or a central strategy, simply following whatever others say.

The mistakes made by the factory are absolutely never considered their fault; they only receive a light scolding, while the blame is instead pushed onto company employees, who are harshly reprimanded.

The company's systems are unbelievably terrible. The people above still say that if they cannot be fixed, we should just make do with them… and use them together.

Working here will leave your body with all kinds of problems, making you feel completely worn down.

Because of the global economic downturn and the overall environment, your company has gradually become extremely exploitative toward its employees. Ever since the chief accountant was replaced by the boss's wife, she has treated employees very stingily. For example, a taxi from Sanxia to Taoyuan Airport will easily cost more than NT$800, and if the fare exceeds that amount, you have to pay the difference yourself. You can submit a reimbursement claim, but whether it will be approved is another matter.

In previous years, the company banquet usually featured hired performers and the like. This year, however, employees had to rehearse a performance to save money before the banquet. Everyone was already so busy that they barely had time, yet they still had to rehearse.

The company often operates on the verge of violating the Labor Standards Act. For example, it now has a new rule that employees are not paid for unused annual leave, and money will even be deducted from their year-end bonus. Because the company is afraid of being reported, it does not announce the policy publicly. The company is so busy that there is basically no time to take leave; even when you take leave and stay home, you still have to deal with the company's nonsense.

The company is stingy when spending money on employees, but completely lacks restraint when spending on itself.

Typhoon days are indeed days off, but the company has piles of nonsense to deal with. Supervisors tell employees to submit reports on the next workday—isn't that plainly telling employees to work from home? The company will then say that working from home is not mandatory, but that progress still has to meet a certain standard. The messaging apps and groups everyone has downloaded onto their phones show the dates of messages and tasks. Anything the boss assigns outside working hours is overtime, yet the company turns a blind eye and does not pay overtime. Their attitude is basically: if you want to sue, go ahead.

When the workday ends, employees are told to clock out first and then continue working. These are facts that some companies will never make public. At the end of the workday, you can also choose not to clock out and report the overtime, but when you claim overtime pay, they will nag and make things difficult.

Violations of the Labor Standards Act are common. Outside working hours or on holidays, supervisors use LINE, WeChat, email, or other forms of communication to assign work to subordinates. If you do not comply, they will even scold you for lacking a sense of responsibility.

The upper management does not want to pay severance, so it does everything possible to force lower-level employees to leave. Internally, they claim to want to save money but resort to all kinds of cheap and improper cost-cutting measures. If that is how they want to operate, they should stop sending so many people abroad to do meaningless things and instead quickly find ways to develop the company in a better direction. Rather than constantly wasting money, they should take care of every employee.