成綸企業股份有限公司

● Colleagues are kind and help one another whenever there are difficulties, but everyone is quite busy....

● As long as you are willing to work hard, stay with the company, and strive together with it, the company will take care of you until retirement.

● You can take parental leave.

● The owner runs the business properly.

● The scheduled working hours are 7:50–16:50.

At 07:45, employees begin cleaning the environment (the area is large and takes 15 minutes) or attend the monthly meeting (a large-scale meeting).

● Basically, eating, drinking, and using personal mobile phones are prohibited during working hours. Items unrelated to work must be placed in the lockers, and ordering food delivery is prohibited.

● Two business meetings are held each week, and the owner attends.

● Part of the salary is paid by bank transfer, with the remainder paid in cash.

● There is no overtime pay. Some sales staff only leave after 18:30 to pick up their children, and most employees get off work after 20:00.

● The head of the sales department is kind by nature, but always reminds sales staff—with “written warnings”—to submit documents within the times he specifies and publicly points out subordinates’ poor work performance in the open-plan office.

The way of doing things still retains old habits.

● Costs must be calculated “manually” on a calculator and then entered into a standard “Word file.” After calculating, employees must ask the supervisor how much profit and waste to add (all subject to the supervisor’s approval). After receiving approval, they must calculate everything manually again, ask the supervisor again... calculate it again... and ask the supervisor again...

● After preparing a quotation, the quotation details must be handwritten in the “Quotation Registration Book,” and the documents must then be filed in another notebook called “Quotation Registration.”

● Internal data is very disorganized. There are three types of standard forms for cost analysis alone, and the forms used by different sales staff are not quite the same.

Suitable for people who want a simple, stable work environment and are hardworking.

The work is very busy and demanding.

High-pressure management at work. Work starts at 8:00 a.m.; foreign workers have to go to the entrance at 7:30 a.m. to sweep, and Taiwanese employees hold a morning meeting at 7:45 a.m.

No matter how much salary you negotiate, overtime pay is calculated based on the basic salary. They are not afraid of you reporting them to the Labor Bureau; they are only afraid that you will be unable to keep working there.

Every matter is recorded as a deficiency. Three deficiencies result in one warning, and one warning deducts one day’s worth from the year-end bonus. The so-called year-end bonus is simply some of the overtime pay that was withheld from you during the year being paid back to you.

A company with more than 200 employees is split into three companies for management purposes, circumventing the Labor Standards Act and occupational safety management regulations. The law protects those who understand the law.

Leaving work on time? It seems unlikely to happen.

The only good thing is the salary, but it’s a base salary of 21,000 plus various allowances that bring it to over 30,000.

The company has good benefits and provides afternoon snacks = you pay for the food yourself every month, and you can’t order drinks because the company prohibits it; if you want something to drink, you have to buy it yourself.

The work system is well established = the official working hours are 7:50 a.m. to 4:50 p.m., but you have to arrive at the company at 7:45 because you have to clean. Also, the lunch break is less than an hour: they wake you up five minutes early, but they don’t let you eat five minutes earlier. Heh, ha ha.

The supervisor is gentle and kind = the supervisor is nice at first, but once you start learning cost calculations, you’ll understand. The supervisor will call you stupid and say there’s something wrong with your head. Cost calculations have to be done by hand; you can’t use any computer programs to enter the data. After you finish calculating, you have to stand next to the supervisor in person and show it to them. If the supervisor is busy, that means your entire day is spent waiting, waiting, waiting…

There are many other things that are too numerous to list. If you want to verify it for yourself, give it a try~

Only on the day of the interview did the sales department manager seem relatively easy to talk to.

I advise anyone considering joining this company to think twice. The scheduled working hours are 7:50–16:50, but in practice you have to arrive at the company by 7:45. From 7:45 to 8:00, you start cleaning the workplace. After cleaning, you are not allowed to eat breakfast and must wait until 10:00. Mobile phones cannot be brought into the company, and there can be no personal belongings or food on your desk. The lunch break is only 55 minutes, and they do not let you start eating five minutes early. In addition, a monthly meeting is held every month. In past years, the annual monthly meeting has always been held on Saturdays, with no compensatory leave or overtime pay—in other words, you work for free. You also have to give a presentation on what you did last year, how much money you made for the company, and the benefits you generated. Only if your presentation is good will your year-end bonus be high, and the year-end bonus is not fixed; it depends on your own performance.

The payment method is to transfer the minimum wage stipulated by the Labor Standards Act, with the remaining salary paid in cash. This means your labor pension contributions are insured at the minimum level. The company operates on the edge of the law, so I strongly advise anyone considering joining to think twice.

The sales department manager only seemed relatively pleasant on the day of the interview. After that, the manager would continually make sarcastic remarks, saying that there was something wrong with your brain and telling you to improve your logic. When calculating costs, the manager still uses an old-fashioned calculator and then enters the results into a Word file, because the manager cannot use Excel and does not trust Excel. How much profit to add and how to account for losses are entirely based on the manager’s mood, with no consistent standard. Whenever you submit any document for approval, you have to stand beside the manager and wait until it has been reviewed and approved before you can leave. It is an extremely traditional company.

People who are just starting their careers or who want to toughen themselves up are welcome to give it a try!