音律電子股份有限公司

Paid annual leave is provided.

Even when you want to take annual leave, you have to read the boss’s mood and endure sarcastic remarks. If you don’t use all your annual leave, the company will also deduct it from your year-end bonus.

1. Free lunch is provided (with fruit every time), and they very thoughtfully conduct satisfaction surveys periodically to improve the lunches.

2. There is hot water for washing your hands in the restroom in winter.

3. Free parking spaces.

4. Family care leave / (for new employees) annual leave—better than required by the Labor Standards Act.

5. Employees are encouraged to use their annual leave (giving them another legitimate reason to take time off); any unused leave is also settled as salary.

6. Scholarships are provided for employees’ children, with very generous amounts.

1. Transportation: There is a bus stop nearby (with relatively long intervals between buses), so driving or riding a scooter is more convenient.

2. The year-end banquet is usually held at the factory (with a tent set up outdoors). Although heaters are thoughtfully provided when the weather is cold, it is still not as comfortable as being indoors.

Bosses who change their minds constantly, making decisions in the morning and reversing them by evening, are overly focused on details and hold meetings for a sense of security. They assign tasks without clear objectives or a central strategy, simply following whatever others say.

The mistakes made by the factory are absolutely never considered their fault; they only receive a light scolding, while the blame is instead pushed onto company employees, who are harshly reprimanded.

The company's systems are unbelievably terrible. The people above still say that if they cannot be fixed, we should just make do with them… and use them together.

Working here will leave your body with all kinds of problems, making you feel completely worn down.

Because of the global economic downturn and the overall environment, your company has gradually become extremely exploitative toward its employees. Ever since the chief accountant was replaced by the boss's wife, she has treated employees very stingily. For example, a taxi from Sanxia to Taoyuan Airport will easily cost more than NT$800, and if the fare exceeds that amount, you have to pay the difference yourself. You can submit a reimbursement claim, but whether it will be approved is another matter.

In previous years, the company banquet usually featured hired performers and the like. This year, however, employees had to rehearse a performance to save money before the banquet. Everyone was already so busy that they barely had time, yet they still had to rehearse.

The company often operates on the verge of violating the Labor Standards Act. For example, it now has a new rule that employees are not paid for unused annual leave, and money will even be deducted from their year-end bonus. Because the company is afraid of being reported, it does not announce the policy publicly. The company is so busy that there is basically no time to take leave; even when you take leave and stay home, you still have to deal with the company's nonsense.

The company is stingy when spending money on employees, but completely lacks restraint when spending on itself.

Typhoon days are indeed days off, but the company has piles of nonsense to deal with. Supervisors tell employees to submit reports on the next workday—isn't that plainly telling employees to work from home? The company will then say that working from home is not mandatory, but that progress still has to meet a certain standard. The messaging apps and groups everyone has downloaded onto their phones show the dates of messages and tasks. Anything the boss assigns outside working hours is overtime, yet the company turns a blind eye and does not pay overtime. Their attitude is basically: if you want to sue, go ahead.

When the workday ends, employees are told to clock out first and then continue working. These are facts that some companies will never make public. At the end of the workday, you can also choose not to clock out and report the overtime, but when you claim overtime pay, they will nag and make things difficult.

Violations of the Labor Standards Act are common. Outside working hours or on holidays, supervisors use LINE, WeChat, email, or other forms of communication to assign work to subordinates. If you do not comply, they will even scold you for lacking a sense of responsibility.

The upper management does not want to pay severance, so it does everything possible to force lower-level employees to leave. Internally, they claim to want to save money but resort to all kinds of cheap and improper cost-cutting measures. If that is how they want to operate, they should stop sending so many people abroad to do meaningless things and instead quickly find ways to develop the company in a better direction. Rather than constantly wasting money, they should take care of every employee.

Meals are provided, and there is also a lunch break.

Flexible working hours.

Starting at 7:00 means you can leave at 4:00.

Starting at 9:00 means you have to leave at 6:00.

The company in Sanxia has a parking lot.

Sanxia’s Dabu area is very desolate.

The only food available may be from the nearby 7-Eleven.

If you want to eat anything else, you can only order delivery.

The company’s operations are poor, so there will be no year-end bonus this year, yet performance evaluations are still being conducted—what is that about? The upper management does not want to pay severance, so they resort to every possible means to force lower-level employees to leave. Internally, they claim to want to save money but use all kinds of bizarre, stingy cost-cutting methods. Instead of doing this, they should stop sending so many people abroad to do meaningless things and quickly find ways to develop the company in a better direction, rather than constantly wasting money. They should be taking care of every employee.

Typhoon days are indeed days off, but the company has a pile of ridiculous issues. Supervisors instruct employees to submit reports on workdays—isn’t that blatantly telling employees to work from home? Then the company says there is no mandatory requirement to work from home, but that progress must reach a certain standard? The software groups downloaded onto everyone’s phones contain date records. Any tasks instructed by the boss outside working hours count as overtime, yet the company turns a blind eye and does not pay overtime. Their attitude is basically, “Go ahead and sue us.”

The boss is often inconsistent and contradictory, telling subordinates to do something and then telling them not to do it that way. No matter how it is done, the boss is never satisfied. It is just like an internet meme in which the boss makes ten requests and is dissatisfied with all of them, only to decide to use the first version after all. Isn’t that just wasting time and doing unnecessary work?

The supervisor is extremely emotional. Do you really enjoy constantly belittling employees? Be careful—you may end up being retaliated against by employees. The supervisor sometimes leaves early as well, yet when employees want to leave early, they are instead subjected to sarcastic remarks. What is going on? Isn’t leaving work at the normal time the right thing to do? How has it somehow become illegal? Internal power struggles among supervisors are all pushed onto lower-level employees to handle. If they want to fight, why don’t they just confront each other and make things clear?

Even when trying to take annual leave, employees are mocked with comments like, “Where are you going to have fun?” And the leave may not even be approved. Even if annual leave is granted, it does not feel like time off, because the company calls and keeps sending messages through communication apps. If you do not handle them, the boss will say, “Why aren’t you responding?” The same applies to sick leave and personal leave. Can’t employees be allowed to take a proper break?

There are an enormous number of miscellaneous and ridiculous tasks. No matter how many mistakes are made, the factory personnel are never disciplined. Apparently, everything is Taiwan’s fault.

Everyone can see what the supervisor is doing; they just have not yet publicly reported it using video recordings, audio recordings, and screenshots.

If you are considering joining, please think carefully and compare your options.

1. The workload is not heavy; some departments do not work overtime and leave as soon as their working hours are over.

2. Free parking spaces; both cars and scooters can be parked.

3. The year-end bonus is sometimes not bad.

4. Lunch is provided.

1. The lunch break is only 50 minutes. The company provides meals, but they are not very good. If you do not want to eat them, the area nearby is very desolate. Apart from a 7-ELEVEN, there is almost nothing to buy, and I have never seen anyone order delivery. If you bring your own lunch, there is only one microwave, located on the B1 floor, and there are cockroaches nearby, so it is inconvenient and I do not dare use it. Taking leave results in the meal subsidy for that day being deducted.

2. Many employees have been with the company for more than ten years and control the company’s main work assignments, such as important projects and key clients. Those who joined later can only do odd jobs and play minor roles. Senior management only wants to see results and does not care about the process. Raising concerns is not very useful, so even after working there for four or five years, there is little growth.

3. The owner’s son has taken over the company in recent years and has been purging the company’s long-term employees. Several waves of people have already been summoned to discuss voluntary retirement and rehire arrangements. All the long-term employees are on edge, making them even less likely to delegate authority. Even though the owner’s son hired a new associate general manager for each department, they still cannot command these long-term employees. People who joined the company later face the question of whether to listen to the associate general manager or the long-term employees as soon as they join, or have to watch the two sides struggle for control. It is emotionally exhausting.

4. This site shows zero violations of the Labor Standards Act, but that seems unlikely. I have clearly seen several former colleagues who were involuntarily dismissed, but the company handled them as voluntary resignations. There were also people who resigned voluntarily but did not accept the company’s attempts to retain them, and were then asked to leave early. These former colleagues did not want to report the company, mostly because they were afraid that when looking for future jobs, a new company might contact their former supervisor or HR department, affecting their future prospects, so they could only endure it and accept the situation. Moreover, the company never announces the list of departing employees or their departure dates. Whatever HR does behind the scenes is only shocking when you hear about it from people who were forced out. Thinking about how ruthless the company is is frightening. In the past, there was not much information about this company available online. I am taking the risk of writing this in the hope that no one else will be deceived, and also hoping to do more good deeds and build up merit so that I can be freed from this situation soon.

Lunch is provided. If you arrive at the restaurant too late, there may be nothing left to eat.

There is a lunch break, but occasionally it is taken up by work matters.

Health checkups are provided.

There is a parking lot, making parking convenient. There are bonuses and gift vouchers given on the three major festivals.

There have been no employee trips due to the pandemic, but travel subsidies are provided.

There are occasional employee gatherings, as well as year-end parties.

The supervisor has a very strange temper—one moment saying something is acceptable, and the next saying it is not.

Every company may have a few employees who bypass their direct managers to curry favor with senior executives, while the senior executives indulge this behavior instead of stopping it.

Moreover, the company has many bad practices. When a supervisor moves house, subordinates are even teased about not giving a little something. The salary is not particularly high, yet they still expect subordinates to give gifts; this is questionable.

When the end of the workday arrives, employees are told to clock out first and then continue working. These are facts that some companies will not make public. It is also possible not to clock out and report overtime, but applying for overtime pay leads to endless nagging and hassle.

Everyone wants to get off work early. Who wants to work overtime?

A common violation of labor laws is that, after working hours or on holidays, supervisors use LINE, WeChat, email, or other forms of communication to assign work to subordinates. If you do not follow through, you may even be scolded and told that you lack a sense of responsibility.

The company holds strange competitions, supposedly to motivate employee cohesion or drive. If you come in first, the supervisor may even verbally bully you with sarcastic remarks about why you are not treating everyone. Salaries are not high, so why should you have to treat everyone? Is doing your job properly at the company not already what you are supposed to do? The supervisors themselves behave this way, yet still expect subordinates to devote themselves fully? None of the supervisors acts like a supervisor……

Employees are expected to pay out of their own pockets for employee gatherings? If a coworker you barely know has a baby, are you still expected to give a red envelope to someone you are not close to? So being single is a crime? If you do not have children, you have to pay? If you do not have a mortgage, are you supposed to treat everyone?

The company’s systems are unbelievably terrible, and management still says to make do with them if they cannot be fixed……

Working here will leave you with all sorts of health problems.

If reporting problems to the company were useful, I would not be leaving this comment here. Understand?

Lunch allowance

The interview posting said transportation reimbursement was available,

but when it was actually brought up, the other party surprisingly pretended not to understand?

The people are nice, the salary is good as discussed, and it’s close to the MRT station.

After sending the offer notification, they said the manager didn’t approve it. ???

The first company I’ve encountered that provides travel reimbursement even just at the interview stage.

Also, the people there and the interviewer seemed nice.

Unfortunately, this isn’t an industry or type of work I’m interested in.