Workplace reviews and discussion: 精華印刷品行_冠華印刷品行

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1. During the interview, they said employees would be covered by labor and health insurance, but after joining I found out it was union insurance instead. As a result, there was no employment insurance or labor pension, and I also had to make a trip to the union myself. They said the labor pension would be paid together after resignation, but that did not happen either. They claimed the company would calculate everything it owed and would not shortchange employees, but that was simply a lie. The NT$2,000 meal allowance was only available if you brought your own lunch, and bringing breakfast to eat at the company was not allowed.

2. They said that whoever had previously handled a certain client’s work would continue handling it. However, the senior employees would say that it was something new or that their current work was urgent, so the boss would assign the project to a newcomer—even when the deadline was not urgent.

3. Holiday overtime pay was not calculated according to the Labor Standards Act.

4. Files from past projects were not stored in a centralized location. The company’s seven computers all contained files created by different people, so whenever you needed to find an old file, you had to search every computer. The only files that were easy to find were those for print jobs sent to a particular printing company, because they had an organized Excel list.

5. The company had no customer service or administrative staff, so everyone had to take turns handling customer service each month. The person assigned to customer service that month could receive an additional NT$1,000 in salary, but the senior employees often took annual leave during the summer vacation in July and August—two days a week, meaning they did not actually perform customer service work for 10 days—yet they still received the full NT$1,000.

6. During the school-publication season, the person assigned to customer service would be extremely busy. The boss would also criticize the speed of manuscript production and demand that it be increased. If you did not frequently work overtime during the school-publication season, the boss would make all kinds of explicit and implicit suggestions that you should work overtime.

7. Work started at 8:00 a.m., but the air conditioning was not turned on until 9:00 a.m. If it rained and the weather was cooler, they would turn it on even later. Sometimes they would even turn off the air conditioning early in the afternoon.