Workplace reviews and discussion: 大立光電股份有限公司

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At the time, I had just graduated and thought that, given how people called it the “stock king,” it might be a good place to work like a corporate drone, so I decided to give it a try. A banner had been hanging there forever advertising 26,000, with a schedule of two days on and two days off. The HR desk was set up in the parking lot, which I found a bit absurd. I later learned why: the turnover was extremely high, hahaha.

In reality, after joining, the system semi-forced you to work three days on and one day off. Once you had made your schedule, you could not change it. Why do I say “semi-forced”? Because as long as you worked 200 hours in a month, you could get an extra 4,000. That worked out to about 23.24 working days per month, so after doing the math, you figured you had to work at least over 200 hours for it to be worthwhile. But you had to schedule two or three extra days in case something suddenly came up. Otherwise, not only would you lose the 4,000 for falling short of the required hours, but your pay would also be deducted for taking leave—an enormous loss overall...

The internal management was extremely poor. They even timed how many minutes you spent in the restroom. At most, only two people could go to the restroom at a time; if that number had already been reached, you had to wait until someone came back before you could go.

During the shift, you were given two 10-minute breaks to drink water and use the restroom. You also finished 20 minutes late, which you had to give back to the company.

The only place in the entire factory where there were chairs you could sit on to rest was the cafeteria. Otherwise, you could only sit on the hallway floor. If you wanted to take a nap during the night shift, you had to sleep on the floor as well.

The senior employee responsible for training me worked a six-days-on, one-day-off schedule. By his fourth consecutive day, he would already start zoning out... the kind of person who would fall asleep halfway through work.

In the end, I only worked there for three months because the environment was too dirty. There were too many particles, causing recurring eye infections that made it impossible for me to work—I even had trouble keeping my eyes open—so I left hastily. But I think leaving was truly the best thing; this place really was no place for a human being to stay...