The company is extremely close to the MRT station.
To avoid the labor and health insurance salary brackets, the salary is split into various allowances and bonuses.
Although the monthly average reaches the monthly salary originally promised, the base salary is unbelievably low (less than NT$22K....)
When bonus increases or holiday support pay is calculated based on the base salary, the result is, as you can imagine, even worse than a part-time worker's pay.
This is the first time I've truly understood what it means to "not value employees."
The sorrow of Taiwan's small and medium-sized enterprises. Sigh.
If you have a very strong liver and are willing to work yourself to the bone, the company won’t treat you badly—but this only applies to people with very strong livers. If you’re an ordinary person who wants to have a life of your own, think carefully before joining!
1. The turnover rate is unbelievably high. There are countless people who say hi today and disappear tomorrow. You can’t even remember the names of new colleagues because the work is too busy—and they might disappear tomorrow anyway, so remembering them would be such a waste of effort, wouldn’t it? XDDD
2. All you hear in the office all day is typing and phone conversations. Other than that, colleagues simply have no time to talk, chat, or shoot the breeze, and nobody dares to speak (complete silence).
3. Every email is like a human centipede: the project team, junior managers, senior managers, and managers from other departments can all see it! This can’t really be helped, because the turnover rate is so astonishingly high that there’s no way to keep track of all the progress otherwise.
4. Bonuses only exist for people who work overtime until they lose all sense of time; everyone else gets nothing. The company has no such thing as overtime pay, so the bonus is considered your compensation for overtime!
5. Every month, part of your salary is semi-compulsorily withheld and paid out on the 10th of that month. Officially, it’s called the bonus multiplier base; in reality, it’s to evade the labor and health insurance salary brackets.
6. Lunch breaks are split into two shifts. On the surface, they say it’s at the clients’ request, but in reality, it’s simply to prevent employees from having the chance to eat and chat together. After lunch is split into shifts, it’s completely impossible to sleep. It’s utterly maddening—you already work so seriously without stopping, and now you can’t even take a lunch break in peace? What kind of nonsense is that? (flips table)
7. The “interview form”—what kind of invention is that? Whenever even a minor mistake occurs, they call you into the meeting room to fill out an interview form, and then deduct NT$300 from your pay for it—but nobody tells you! The same goes for pay slips: if you don’t proactively ask for one every month, you won’t get it!
8. They’re constantly changing people’s seats. As soon as you finally settle in and develop good rapport with your neighbors and seatmates, they send out an email telling you to change seats. I really, really can’t understand this. Why, oh why, heavenly uncle!
9. Because the turnover rate is so high, whenever a client calls, you have to tell them that the previous person in charge is on a long vacation or away from their desk—you absolutely must not say that they resigned! In fact, nobody even teaches you to say this. Honestly, I don’t know where the person who used to handle it went either (mystery).
10. Salaries are not paid until the 10th of every month. If you don’t receive your salary after leaving the company, you definitely have to claim it yourself—the company won’t proactively give it to you if you don’t ask!
That’s all. Done for the day!
It is extremely frustrating that the interview process was not explained clearly beforehand. During the interview, in addition to filling out basic information, I unexpectedly had to complete 120 intelligence test questions, as if I were taking an academic aptitude test. Moreover, applicants were not informed in advance to set aside enough time, which completely wasted both parties’ time and compromised their interests.