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The supervisor often verbally attacks teachers and also yells at the children, which I feel could hurt them emotionally… They constantly talk about the team, but do not accept any teachers’ opinions; only what they say counts.
There is no room for growth or improvement.
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Bad atmosphere, negative energy, teaching people to fight each other, and no respect for others
Supervisors like to make empty promises, with no practical plans
The interview stated that the base salary was 28,000, but in reality it was 23,000; the 28,000 included allowances and Saturday working hours
On weekdays, the daily finishing time is between 10:30 and 11:00 p.m., with no overtime pay
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At the busiest location in the entire province
Cultivate a remarkable group of people, then cultivate the next, even more remarkable group?!
Just don't leave behind dark trauma
1. Spacious and bright environment
2. Snack cabinet
3. Comprehensive training
4. Colleagues are easy to get along with
Let me start with the conclusion: I do not recommend working here. The following describes the situation at one of the Hsinchu branch schools.
1. There is no clear clock-in system, and employees frequently work overtime (1–2 hours). The employer refuses to pay overtime.
2. The starting salary is said to be 28K, but the base salary is actually 23K; it only reaches 28K if you work on Saturdays.
3. There is no labor insurance or national health insurance. Employees are only allowed to enroll through a labor union, resulting in substantial losses for employees.
4. Management training may be inadequate, or the supervisor may be unfit for the position, because employees frequently have to endure the supervisor’s emotional abuse in the workplace (please Google the technical term yourself), resulting in extremely poor labor-management communication. In addition, the supervisor often distorts or exaggerates facts, and even spreads rumors, while thinking they can cover everything up. It is ridiculous. Didn’t your company provide education on these basic workplace ethics and morals during management training? Or is there something wrong with the supervisor’s family education in the first place?
5. There are many scripts for deceiving parents, students, and teachers. After a while, you can see through them.
6. The workload is explosively large—truly, explosively, ridiculously large. Besides working overtime every day, you still have to handle work after going home. The supervisor only keeps blaming employees for being inefficient and telling them that there is no job where you do not have to work overtime, without realizing that the workload itself is excessive. All teachers work extremely, extremely long overtime hours. The supervisor neither resolves the excessive workload nor agrees to pay overtime, instead dumping all the negative costs on employees.
7. The actual job duties do not match what was described during the interview. The duties mentioned in the interview are only part of the job; many other tasks (such as painting) will also be assigned to you, and once you become overwhelmed, they will criticize you for being inefficient.
8. The year-end bonus is pitifully small. At NT$300 per student, to receive the equivalent of one month’s bonus at a typical company (28K), you would have to teach 93 students. That is extremely demanding for far too little pay. Currently, no teacher at this branch teaches more than 90 students, meaning no one’s year-end bonus exceeds one month’s salary. Pathetic, right?
9. The supervisor is very good at making empty promises. Just listen to the nice things they say and do not take them seriously; they are all deceptive sales pitches.
10. Suppose something happens: the supervisor will maliciously distort employee A’s meaning, causing employee B to misunderstand employee A, even though employee A never meant that at all. This happens frequently and is emotionally exhausting. Nobody wants to engage in office politics; fortunately, everyone gets along well and is not afraid of the supervisor’s attempts to sow discord.
11. When paying salaries, the company does not provide salary statements or withholding tax statements. When employees leave, it also does not issue certificates of employment or separation certificates. The supervisor seems not to know what they are doing.
12. The leave system is inadequate, and staffing is tight. Every teacher is overwhelmed and afraid to take annual leave because they do not want to cause trouble for others. The supervisor also shows no intention of solving the problem.
13. The compensation does not match the demands. It is not that employees cannot be held to high standards, but the compensation must also correspond to those demands for people to be able to continue working there. With excessive demands, no reasonable compensation, and a system full of illegal practices, it is no wonder the employee turnover rate remains high and no one stays.
14. You can earn extra pay for paid make-up classes, at NT$100 per person per hour. This is not mentioned when salaries are paid; the supervisor will play dumb, and the money may simply be pocketed. The same applies when exchanging annual leave for cash: the supervisor relies on employees not remembering to claim it.
15. Meetings are frequently not held on time. The supervisor often says that punctuality must be observed, but does not follow it themselves. Meetings often run over, delaying employees’ work, after which employees are blamed for being inefficient. The supervisor requires teachers to end classes on time, but does not end classes on time when substituting. This double-standard management style is impossible to accept.
16. There are no clearly defined break times. Employees are so busy that they can barely eat or rest. The supervisor only keeps verbally telling everyone to eat, without taking any practical action to improve the situation. If you choose to eat, you cannot finish your work and get scolded; if you choose to work, you cannot eat and become malnourished. It turns out that choosing to resign is the proper path.
17. The supervisor’s management style is problematic. Standards change from day to day, leaving employees confused; no matter what they do, they are wrong. The supervisor contradicts things they have said themselves, refuses to admit mistakes, and uses emotional outbursts to shift the blame to employees every time. Does having low emotional intelligence make it acceptable to say anything?
18. For the reasons above (of course, listing everything would take too long, so I can only mention the most important points), I do not recommend working here. You will be exploited to death.