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You’ll get scolded for using your phone during the 30-minute meal break. They’ll tell you to hurry up and finish eating so you can get back to work, and if you keep using your phone, they’ll say it affects your performance. You usually get 8 days off per month, but taking leave on holidays is generally prohibited. If something comes up, they’ll make you sign a form requiring you to work, saying they’ll pay overtime later anyway. They’ll pressure you with performance bonuses and sales targets. The staff are all older people who can’t leave; there are no young people who stay here.
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The boss painted a rosy picture during the interview, while the supervisor had no management skills whatsoever. Employees were prohibited from going out to vote on election day. Only minimum-wage insurance coverage was provided, and no overtime pay was given. The boss would use surveillance cameras to monitor employees’ every move and would deduct money from their pay at the slightest pretext.
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1. The company says it provides meals, but the food is basically kitchen waste. I’ve been given spoiled, sour-smelling food. Even when it’s inedible, you’re not allowed to go out and buy something else—you can only go hungry.
2. There are no breaks. As soon as you finish eating, you have to get back to work.
3. They don’t pay overtime. It’s a responsibility-based system, but each person is given so much work that it’s impossible to finish, meaning overtime is inevitable.
4. You have to bring your own stationery. Otherwise, the office supplies are unbearably poor, and requests for replacements aren’t approved anyway. Long-term employees will directly advise you to bring your own.
5. Even when a typhoon day has officially been declared a work and school closure day, the boss says that if there’s no wind or rain, everyone should continue working. As soon as it starts raining—even without wind—the boss leaves. You still have to make up the workday after clocking out at the officially designated closure time. (You’ll even be mocked: “Are you really going straight home?”)
There are so many outrageous things that it’s impossible to list them all.
1.Regardless of how long you have worked there, paid annual leave is capped at 5 days.
2. NT$10 is deducted for being 1 minute late.
3. Office staff do not receive overtime pay.
4. When short-staffed, office staff may also be asked to help with the cash register and front-of-house duties.
5. Any excess cash at the register is counted as the company's; any shortfall must be fully paid by the employee.
6. Labor insurance, health insurance, and labor pension contributions are not reported based on actual wages, and some part-time workers are not insured at all.
7. Promised pay raises may still be withdrawn. Until they actually happen, take what the owner says with a grain of salt. They are very good at making grand promises, but you never get to enjoy them.
The owner often violates labor laws, yet frequently thinks she is being very generous. She also blames people who file complaints against her. In her view, every fault is someone else's. Anyone considering working there should think twice.