日商磐石股份有限公司MILESTONE CO., LTD

[Company Statement] Japanese Company Banshi　2019.07.04

The Taiwan branch of our company is entering its sixth year since establishment.

Only around 2015 did we lay off one employee, for two reasons.

The company had no choice but to carry out the dismissal.

The dismissal process was conducted in accordance with the Labor Standards Act, including the required notification and payment of the statutory severance pay.

We hereby reiterate that every employee is extremely important.

The company has an obligation to protect its employees and reject workplace violence and cyberbullying among employees.

Although this has led to a series of false rumors, accusations, defamatory statements, and attacks against the company online,

none of this will change our company's determination to protect its employees.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Thank you.

Banshi Co., Ltd., Japanese Company　Sincerely,

2019.07.04

As above

You can gain some work experience to add to your résumé by working on holidays.

First of all, this is a standard Taiwanese family business with a Japanese exterior. Basically, it does not offer the benefits you would expect from a Japanese company, while guaranteeing that you will experience all the undesirable habits of a family business.

1. It claims externally to be an affiliated company of a major Japanese hotel, but strictly speaking, it can only be considered another shell holding company owned by the same boss. It was established more than 30 years ago, but has not actually operated for very long (it was a holding company for the first 27 years).

2. It is a typical family business. The members are basically the boss’s son, the boss’s son’s wife, and the boss’s son’s wife’s younger sister. One manager is a princess with a highly subjective mindset and an inflated sense of self-importance. She often speaks badly of Taiwanese people and criticizes them for being uncultured, saying that Japanese people would never behave that way, and makes sarcastic remarks about Taiwanese employees.

3. The boss and a female manager who is a relative will compete with the sales staff for clients. When they hear that it is a major client, they push the salesperson aside and hand over their own business cards, telling the client to contact them directly. For minor clients, they simply say to contact the salesperson.

4. There are surveillance cameras near the workstations monitoring employees at all times. Employees’ Facebook accounts are monitored, and employees have been dismissed on the grounds that their Facebook posts were inappropriate.

5. Most of the real-estate properties provided can be found on public websites, yet they often tell Taiwanese people that the properties are exclusive listings. For genuinely good properties, they either keep them for themselves or have a partner investment company acquire and renovate them first, then resell them to Taiwanese people at a high price.

6. They guarantee an annual salary equivalent to 14 months’ pay (but bonuses are calculated using an extremely low base), and then reduce it further based on personal preferences and arbitrary reasons.

7. They have repeatedly said they would build a hotel in Taiwan, but it has never gone anywhere. They asked an architect to draw up the design for an entire hot-spring hotel, yet were only willing to pay a few tens of thousands of dollars—completely unaware of the value of professional work.

The interviewer spoke very articulately and shared many of his opinions and thoughts with you.

He talked at length about young people’s attitudes toward work these days, changing jobs, and having too little work experience. Basically, he does not want to interview this type of job seeker. He is a rather highly subjective person. Japanese speakers are not advised to join this company, because the salary is generally not very high either. Look for a better company.

There really are none

The list is endless.

1. This company always publicly claims that it is an affiliated company of a major Japanese hotel (in reality, it is not a legitimate subsidiary).

2. It always publicly claims to have operated in Japan for 30 years (in fact, for the first 27 years it was merely a holding company).

3. The real estate properties it provides are all properties that can be found on public websites; they have absolutely no competitiveness whatsoever.

4. The female manager is an incompetent family-appointed executive who has an extremely high opinion of herself. Her standard opening remarks are always, “You Taiwanese people all [redacted]...” and “You Taiwanese people can’t keep up with our ideas and pace.”

You yourself lived in Japan for several years, yet your Japanese isn’t very good—not even good enough to have passed N1. You dare say that? I don’t even dare listen.

5. It always claims to guarantee a 14-month annual salary (but the bonuses are calculated using an extremely low base amount).

6. The office is practically a den of wolves, with a pile of artworks placed on platforms that look like a construction site.

This company is absolutely the biggest landmine of all.