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Read the community guidelinesColleagues get along well and can share anything, especially their dissatisfaction with the supervisor—we’re all united against a common enemy!
The supervisor at a certain animal testing facility treats employees like they’re not human and berates them three times a day!!
Every little thing each day is blown out of proportion. They often call employees idiots and say they can’t do anything. How capable are they themselves, anyway?
A place that needs three people ended up having about three times that number leave!
They are very short-staffed because the turnover rate is extremely high, so it is easy to get into the industry.
The salary and bonuses are decent. I heard that if you are short on money, you can spend an extra hour or so just wandering around and chatting there and still count it as overtime pay.
1. At the subsidiary, for managers at or above the regional-manager level in the Central Taiwan area, it really comes down to their character and conscience. If they are terrible but you are sweet-talking and have a good relationship with them, you are a treasure no matter how poorly you perform.
2. I heard they will even threaten and deliberately make things difficult for you directly in the all-staff group chat, openly putting you on the spot. There are also quite a few internal cliques, which can make you lose faith in the company.
3. If you stay in a small unit at the breeding facility, you should not expect to get a raise at all. Your supervisor does not care how hard you work. If you want opportunities for promotion or a raise, forget about it. Just treat it as a part-time job. Do not overwork yourself; taking care of your health is what matters. Even if you see a doctor and have documentation, they will still suspect that you are faking it, and they may even call you in for questioning and threaten you, asking whether you pretended to be sick to get leave!
5. If they dislike you, they will transfer you around arbitrarily. There are many strange people among the employee trainees, and after making a mess of things, they simply collect their year-end bonus and run off.
6. After a collective complaint was filed with the labor bureau, even after being fined, they still did not change. After all, the group has enough money to clean up after these managers who cause trouble.
Subsidiary: Food Company Co., Ltd.; the livestock farming operation is very large.
First, the egg production volume is very high.
Second, food hygiene practices are very thorough.
The chicken farms are large-scale operations located in the Yizhu headquarters area and the Liujiao farm area.
The salary is considered low; working here is not recommended.
Employee turnover is far too high. Only management trainees tend to stay; technicians usually leave after about one year to less than two years. Some even leave in less than six months.
It is rumored that the egg-collection room at the Liujiao No. 1 layer farm has a high turnover rate.
Technicians are usually not provided with accommodation.
Relations with colleagues are fairly harmonious
1. The department manager is a control freak who remotely (via LINE) controls employees every day, assigning them meaningless tasks. Every small task completed must be photographed and reported.
2. The manager remotely monitors the time of report submissions; if you are even slightly late, they call your mobile phone, affecting work efficiency.
3. Frequently holds meaningless meetings to portray themselves as capable, although colleagues all know the truth.
4. Whether you do something correctly or incorrectly, the department manager berates you until you begin to doubt your own abilities.
5. The department manager often assigns their own responsibilities to employees, such as preparing reports, doing the accounting, and creating work schedules. When something goes wrong, they invariably shift the blame and never reflect on themselves.
6. Constantly keeps a close watch on employees. You may even receive calls from the department manager during your time off or vacation, with each call lasting at least 20 minutes.
7. Frequently sows discord and fabricates stories, presenting white as black and wrong as right, causing colleagues to become suspicious of one another and act differently in public and private.
8. Flaunts their academic credentials, claiming that as a National Taiwan University graduate they can do everything, but in reality they are less capable than others—an example of the Peter principle.
9. There are serious problems with workplace management, yet they are treated as legitimate management practices. The Chi-Gu aquaculture department needs approximately four to five employees, but at least 20 people have left, and the manager always shifts the blame onto the employees.
10. Violates the Labor Standards Act. When an employee tries to raise an objection, the department manager begins workplace bullying, saying that this is simply how the aquaculture industry works and that if you keep an abacus hanging around your neck (being overly calculating) and keep the law on the tip of your tongue, you will never learn anything. They then begin targeting you privately and documenting every shortcoming.
The colleagues are very nice and are always able to help one another.
The supervisor is extremely poor and directly belittles others when things do not meet his expectations.
He keeps going on about how he graduated from National Taiwan University!
He uses LINE to track your whereabouts at all times, including when you are on leave.
Even when taking leave to return to the aquaculture farm, he dictates the time, which is completely incomprehensible.
Great Wall should disband this department or replace the supervisor.
A self-righteous supervisor is leading a department that has not made any money.
If you are thinking of applying to the Qigu aquaculture farm, please think twice and don't fall into this pit—or rather, cesspit!
A highly prejudiced, self-righteous, neurotic supervisor who seems close to having bipolar disorder. For ordinary outdoor pond-farming work, employees are required to send hundreds of reports via LINE every day and receive instructions through LINE. It is essentially using LINE for surveillance—a highly distorted management approach that is simply pathological.
The HR person I spoke with was nice, and looked to be under 30 or in their early 30s—just a regular employee.
The employee dormitory is inexpensive, with priority given to employees from outside the county or city. The fact that two people share a room with a bathroom separating them is a big plus!!
The company is fairly close to home.
Each plant has a different days-off schedule. Some have two days off per week, but Saturdays almost always require overtime; others use a rotating schedule with at most four to six days off per month.
Salaries vary by site and are not particularly high—just average.
The unit with two days off per week requires overtime almost every day and on Saturdays, with shifts changing weekly. As someone who dislikes changing shifts every week, I would not be able to tolerate this in the long term.
No pros
Poor air pollution control in the plant
Managers have low EQ
There are no SOPs for the work
Quite relaxed by traditional-industry standards; you can use it as a place to coast toward retirement. It's more or less like being a civil servant—stay too long, though, and all your skills will rust away.
The boss is obsessed with grandstanding, while resources are pitifully scarce. They always want to avoid spending money, cutting costs so aggressively that there aren't even toilet paper or pens. Internal employees are also expected to buy the soon-to-expire products the company can't sell.
The HR staff were friendly and professional.
Position applied for: Customer Service Center Assistant Specialist
104’s listing stated that the working hours were daytime, but shift work is required *including holiday shifts.
This was extremely unclear and misleading, as it suggested that only holiday shifts were required.
It was only during the interview that the supervisor said the position required both morning and evening shifts.
The supervisor also mentioned that employees could not easily take leave
unless they were truly feeling extremely unwell.
Why, before I have even joined the company, was I already being treated as though I would frequently take leave?
Basically, I am a responsible employee and almost never take leave,
but the supervisor’s attitude made me feel sad for Taiwan’s workers.
Isn’t taking leave a right that workers should have?
The supervisor also asked some personal questions (whether I had a boyfriend, whether I planned to get married.....)
Perhaps they were afraid that after hiring me, I would immediately request marriage leave or parental leave.
Thank you for this interview experience; I have once again gotten to know a company. :)
HR staff are very courteous and respond quickly.
The company benefits are considered quite good for southern Taiwan.
A very typical traditional manufacturing company in southern Taiwan.
You are required to bring transcripts from all years to the interview. The supervisor will ask many privacy-related questions that are irrelevant to the position, such as your blood type, your parents’ occupations, whether you have a girlfriend, etc. Their manner of speaking is also rather impolite (possibly a stress test).
You work entirely on your own.
1. A terrible subsidiary (Zhongyi).
2. During the interview, they said the salary could reach 40,000, but in reality, it would only be possible to earn that much by working Saturdays and overtime on weekdays.
3. Quality control + hygiene management + general affairs + plant operations + expense reimbursement.
4. The salary is less than 30,000. In northern Taiwan, it is basically worse than being a security guard. There are tons of miscellaneous tasks, and even the supervisors above cannot use Word.
The interviewer from HR was polite and quite talkative, and responded very quickly.
If you want to join the procurement department, be sure to pay close attention to your educational background~ They don't care whether you have a master's or doctoral degree from overseas (lol).
They made it sound as though you have little chance of promotion if you didn't graduate from National Tainan University x, and they don't look at your highest level of education, instead repeatedly emphasizing which high school and university you attended?! It gave off an exclusionary feeling, like bad money driving out good money.
After being there for a long time, they seemed to have a very arrogant attitude toward outsiders and went out of their way to be sarcastic.
I have a very negative impression of your company. Even if I were accepted, I simply couldn't accept becoming colleagues with people like that.
1. The interviewer’s attitude was fairly good, but they did not seem to be a manager, just a regular employee.
2. Although it is a branch office, its benefits are the same as those of the headquarters. (The benefits listed on the job bank website looked pretty good.)
This was an interview for an internal position in the Bade District. The job bank website stated that there were two days off every week, but during the actual interview they said it was every other Saturday off instead. However, working on Saturdays is paid as overtime. When filling out the interview information, applicants are required to provide two colleagues or supervisors who can serve as references for the company’s background check.
Absolutely do not go to the Aquatic Products Business Division...... (Vietnam, Indonesia)
Traditional-industry salaries have a ceiling, but the chairman and other senior executives are quite considerate of employees, and the company’s other benefits are also fairly good.
As long as you do your job well, don’t make any major mistakes, and are not unfortunately placed under some strange manager, you can basically work smoothly.
BTW, this review applies only to the Taiwan headquarters.