1. The position applied for is a quality control staff member. Since the plant’s quality assurance system has not yet been fully established, the supervisor genuinely wants to build one. If you want to make sweeping changes, this is a very good stage.
2. Although food factories are generally family businesses, the two brothers who conducted the interview are family members who started as delivery drivers. They are also fairly young, so communication should be easier.
3. The environment is fairly clean. If you arrive early for work, there will be parking spaces at the entrance.
4. Lunch is at your own expense. The company will help order boxed meals, but regardless of whether you order a $120 or $90 meal, you will be charged $80, which will be deducted from your salary. Of course, you may also bring your own lunch.
1. There are four female office staff members in total: procurement and human resources, sales administration, accounting, and quality control. One person takes turns answering the phone at noon each day and writing down order requests, then passes them to sales administration after the break. During the busy season (the one or two months before and after the Lunar New Year), one person takes turns working every Saturday to help order boxed meals, answer the phone, and enter orders, so that the drivers can deliver the goods directly using the order slips. Regardless of your position, you must understand the sales administration order-entry process.
2. Lunch is not provided. The company will help order boxed meals, costing $80, which will be deducted from your salary. Of course, you may also bring your own lunch.
3. The salary offer is not straightforward. The stated compensation was $33,000, and I thought it was just a regular quality control position. It turned out to require sweeping changes: there is no in-house calibration (everything is outsourced), no microbiological testing (everything is externally tested), no process controls, no raw-material acceptance specifications, no supplier management, and so on—there is nothing in place. Even when auditors come, the four office staff members simply fill in documents to put on a superficial show. Then they said the first month would be $31,000, consisting of a $30,000 base salary plus $1,000 perfect-attendance bonus; if I could stay on through the second month, the salary would be adjusted, and only after completing three months would it be raised to the stated compensation. Leaving aside the fact that this is essentially a supervisory position being offered this salary, the interviewing supervisors could not even clearly explain what quality control actually needed to do. Every year, documents are simply patched together to satisfy the audit. If you do not respect the profession, how can you expect to hire a professional?
4. The scheduled hours are 08:00–17:00, with a one-hour lunch break (if you are not assigned to answer the phone that day...). However, the company requires employees to arrive early at 07:30 to clean and tidy the environment every day.
5. For the three traditional festivals, the gift depends on how much the boss puts in the red envelope; if there is no red envelope, there is a gift box. The year-end bonus is based on individual performance, and they never clearly state whether it amounts to one month’s salary.
6. If the company feels that your performance is unsuitable for the position, after three months it will ask you to resign voluntarily rather than lay you off, so naturally there is no severance pay. (If people are not placed in suitable positions, they cannot perform their functions; just saying this is enough to indicate inadequate management ability.)
7. The supervisor believes that the workload from Monday through Friday should not require overtime, so any overtime worked will not be paid. (However, overtime pay is provided for weekend shifts.)
8. Quality control is usually a team in which each person has their own responsibilities. If the goal is to establish a sound quality control system, having someone merely answer phones and take turns on duty—rather than emphasizing quality control management—and having only one person responsible for it makes it very difficult to establish the company’s quality control system.