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1. New employees have low starting salaries and are treated as disposable tools and errand runners.
2. Engineer Lin in Tainan (now an assistant manager) is very good at flattering his superiors, so whatever he says goes. He sleeps until noon every day and does not go to customer sites for maintenance or repairs; he makes the new employees handle everything.
3. When there are new employees, they have to cover the entire Tainan area and go as far as Chiayi. After exploiting them for 3–6 months, he gets rid of them, saving the company bonuses and year-end payments; the new employees’ welfare funds (dining expenses) also end up in his pocket.
4. Because he is the only person left in Tainan, the company will not take action against him. After getting rid of the new employees, he will not go to Chiayi either; he just acts coquettishly toward his superiors, and they assign support from Taichung or Kaohsiung. (If I get the chance, I would like to bring him down.)
5. His superiors (Pan X-qing, Zheng X-yao, and Zheng X-cheng) support and indulge him, so the people below can only obediently cooperate.
6. If you have read the points above, whether you are currently “taking the risk” or thinking about going in to “take the risk,” evaluate it for yourself!
As a field engineer, you have flexible hours; weekends off and public holidays off.
1. New hires start with low salaries; the boss only wants to use newcomers to reduce costs.
2. There are constraints in Tainan. Senior Engineer Lin (now an assistant manager) is currently the boss’s favorite, so whatever he says is treated as an imperial edict.
As long as you don’t obey, he will report you to his superiors and find a way to get rid of you. Staying for a year can be considered training....
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I previously worked here but left after a short time. There aren't many people at the Taipei headquarters either. I once overheard HR say that there were nearly 20 new employees in a certain month... The turnover rate is frighteningly high.
Mao the brat says: Being good at flattering is also a kind of ability. I’m good at it—I can talk about Laozi’s Dao De Jing, the Records of the Three Kingdoms, and other people’s shortcomings; I have a bad temper and a poor memory; I can loudly scold subordinates, kiss up to those above me, treat people like disposable tableware, pretend to know what I don’t, divide the organization, and spread word that other companies are trying to poach me. That’s how I managed to bamboozle the boss into offering me a monthly salary of 200,000 and putting me in a position second only to the boss and above everyone else.
The boss says: When one person attains enlightenment, even the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. You have to be obedient to become a boss. I don’t need you to help me make money—I’m already very rich. You have to run Zhaoyin as if it were your own business. I only want obedient employees. People with brains and ideas who aren’t obedient aren’t suitable for my company; I’ll ask you to leave.
The boss’s favorite: I don’t need to know these technical skills. I only need to be able to talk and speak persuasively—to turn black into white.
There are so many misdeeds they could never all be written down…
Those who can do the work get worked to death. Those who can’t enjoy themselves to death. What do you call this? The capable are burdened with more work.
I really can't think of any at the moment.
1. Senior management only wants to hire recent graduates at low salaries. Employees with technical expertise have gradually left, resulting in a serious skills gap. I believe there are probably no longer any highly experienced employees left.
2. Senior management seems helpless in the face of the company's high turnover rate.
3. There is no promotion or salary adjustment system. Several employees have been working here for years, yet they are still engineers, and their salaries are fairly ordinary—below the current market rate for field engineers.
4. There is no guaranteed annual salary. According to longer-serving employees, the year-end bonus previously paid was less than one month's salary, and apparently some employees did not receive a year-end bonus at all. The Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival bonuses are also very small, and the performance bonus is not even worth mentioning.
5. Perhaps because the company's turnover rate is high, the atmosphere in the workplace is not very good.
6. Some engineers act as though they are supervisors and have a poor attitude toward their colleagues. After asking other colleagues, I found out that they had not even been working there for very long.
To be honest, if you have other options, don't choose this place. You can learn more at other companies.