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1. Violates the Labor Standards Act: sick leave is deducted from full pay; when adjusting store operating hours, employees with insufficient seniority are asked to agree to use advance annual leave (ostensibly to prevent employees from losing wages) (can junior employees really disagree?)
2. A typical exploitative southern boss: makes sarcastic remarks when employees take leave, and during the off-season hints that employees should schedule days off (...or directly arranges which days employees will take off)
3. Style: family-owned business, superstitious religious beliefs, political fanaticism (deep-blue), one-person rule, double standards
The salary is relatively okay for Kaohsiung.
* They do not value employees who genuinely contribute to the company, because the boss's famous saying is, “The company will continue to operate normally even without you.” Don't assume that they will notice your dedication to the company; if there is anything about you they dislike, they will still cast you aside.
* Small companies have no real systems in place.
* There are lots of inexplicable rules. The boss makes decisions entirely based on their mood, and treats people the same way.
* The company is full of various monitoring and surveillance systems—not to prevent theft, but to monitor employees. They have an extremely strong need for control.
* They do not like employees who have ideas of their own. If you have your own opinions, you will be regarded as a “disobedient employee.”
* The leave policy is extremely poor. If you take leave to go out and have fun, the boss will make sarcastic remarks about it.
The salary is better than the average in the City of Happiness.
The work covers a wide range of tasks, making it suitable for beginners to gain experience.
If you have worked for less than three years, you cannot take more than four consecutive days of leave, including weekends, even for wedding or bereavement leave. After three years, you can take only seven consecutive days off. As for annual leave, two-thirds of it is arranged by the boss’s wife, who completely disregards the Labor Standards Act.
It is difficult to get leave approved. You have to risk being “dismissed” to request time off, and if you take leave to travel abroad, the boss will make sarcastic remarks.
There are surveillance systems and listening devices in every corner of the company. These devices are not merely there for potential criminals to see; more often, they are used to guard against the company’s own employees.
Compared with inner cultivation, outward appearance and conditions are more important. The boss gives priority to hiring applicants with superior external attributes.
The salary is higher than the going rate in Happy City.
In addition to questions about my résumé, they asked many personal questions about my household affairs, which made me uncomfortable.
The workload is average, and the pay is not low
The drawbacks of a small company are that everything depends on the boss's mood
Employees' annual leave is arranged by the boss, and employees are not allowed to take several consecutive days off
There are many violations of the Labor Standards Act and unreasonable internal rules, but they are not stated openly
The employee turnover rate is very high; the boss is superstitious, and new hires inexplicably get "let go"