Workplace reviews and discussion: 社團法人中華民國全國中小企業總會

A place for fresh graduates to gain experience, perhaps, because the salary is set very low, so they can only trick workplace newcomers for the time being.

The 6th, 19th, and 2nd floors next door are all part of the same center. Since many of the projects are government projects from the Ministry of Labor, the workplace culture inside is also very conservative and traditional. The senior managers are all old-timers who have been sitting around for ages, have numb legs, and do not have much ability.

You are given the title of Project A, but in reality you end up handling a pile of tasks for Projects B, C, and D. There is endless overtime on weekdays, and an overtime culture is widespread. You also have to provide temporary support for weekend activities from time to time. You can only exchange the overtime for compensatory leave, not overtime pay. After refusing, they even say that the year-end performance review will examine those "employees who cannot cooperate with weekend overtime." What a joke. How much is the salary? They still expect you to cooperate with mandatory weekend overtime. To hell with that—whoever wants this lousy job can do it.

When you use the compensatory leave earned from all that overtime during weekdays, people will even make sarcastic remarks: "Wow, you have time to take leave."

Nonsense == Isn't compensatory leave and overtime supposed to be used on weekdays? Do you want people to violate the Labor Standards Act or what???

Because the culture is traditional and conservative, when you see a "manager from another floor," you are expected to greet them. Please, how am I supposed to know who you are??? Did you buy me a drink when you got promoted to manager? If not, why should I know you????

There are so many of these old-fashioned bad habits, as if becoming a manager makes you some kind of official ==

One manager, because they were using one person as two, was under so much pressure that during work hours they would mutter: "I really want to jump from here. If I died, I wouldn't have to work." These kinds of extremely negative, attention-seeking remarks make the entire office feel oppressive. If you want to jump, then jump—why keep muttering about it=..=

The elevators are hard to catch during commuting hours, the pay is low, the workload is explosively large, people are not respected, an overtime culture is widespread, and the managers have bipolar disorder.