台灣大福高科技設備股份有限公司

So far, all the colleagues I’ve encountered have been easy to get along with.

The Tainan F18 plant is short-staffed on supervisors, so Taiwan Daifuku’s safety personnel distribute the work safety reminders that supervisors are supposed to read at the morning meeting for technicians to take turns reading. People who read them poorly get demerit points. Getting demerit points means money is deducted from the subcontracting company; the deducted money is supposed to be donated, and then the receipt must be submitted.

Using this kind of method that skirts the edge of the law to deduct money from technicians’ pay and pressure the subcontracting company, while also making it impossible to report them to the Labor Bureau—haha, it’s ridiculous.

The standard for reading the work safety reminders poorly is based on Zhang Shunjie, the head of safety at F18. Whatever he says goes. If he gets angry or unhappy, he deducts points, citing “poor discipline” as the reason. I thought I was in the military. “Poor discipline” has nothing to do with TSMC’s Blue Book. In any case, it’s not as if these safety personnel’s points are deducted. Even when safety personnel make mistakes that affect technicians, there is no disciplinary action; they don’t apologize either—they just act as if nothing happened.

Some of Taiwan Daifuku’s safety personnel are also hired through outsourcing companies, and they act incredibly arrogant. The safety personnel from other equipment vendors aren’t like this. These safety personnel can only act like local emperors at Taiwan Daifuku.

People frequently post complaints about Taiwan Daifuku in the TSMC大小事 Facebook group.

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Management's thinking can't keep up with reality. They come up with a bunch of out-of-touch rules and often arbitrarily reassign the people below them for no reason. They completely fail to understand the difficulties faced by those doing the work and show very little empathy. It's bad enough that they can't get things done and don't think through their actions—they also have no sense of responsibility. When employees follow the company's SOP and a customer voices even the slightest complaint, the supervisor immediately throws them under the bus and joins the customer in berating them. Sigh! Not every supervisor is broad-minded enough to let things go.

Apparently, there are none.

This is a Japanese-named, Taiwanese-run company. I remember applying to this company several years ago for a three-month short-term Japanese translation position. The pay was not very good, but I was having financial difficulties and had no choice but to accept it. The job was in Taoyuan, so I moved from southern Taiwan to Taoyuan and rented a place. After working for a little over a month, the company—possibly to save money—terminated my employment contract without warning before the New Year. This immediately put me in financial difficulty. I had already rented a place and had to find another job right away, but jobs were also difficult to find before the New Year. Those days were truly unbearably difficult.

I heard from an engineer there that a Japanese translator had applied and been hired, but although the stated salary was NT$30,000, they received only NT$26,000. A team leader there told me that when he applied, the advertised terms were fourteen months of salary, but in reality it was still only twelve months. His family needed money, so he had no choice but to accept it.

Although it operates under the name of a Japanese company, its pay is worse than that of ordinary Taiwanese companies, and it has little in the way of systems or procedures. If they want you to leave, they will make you leave immediately. I recommend not applying, so you do not waste your life.

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For those with relevant work experience and experience with the same models, the salary offered is extremely low. Besides repairing machines, the job responsibilities include supervising subcontractors’ work and traveling abroad frequently. Japanese companies generally offer very low salaries and benefits, so they are constantly short-staffed.