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Everything on the 104 slave bank is a scam! In reality, the salaries are extremely low!
Standard exploitative labor in warm southern Taiwan!
I advise all fellow locals:
Unless you are completely desperate!
Only come here for an interview or to take a job if you have no other choice with fringe industries, gambling industries, black-market organizations ...
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Everything on 104 Slave Bank is a scam! In reality, the salaries are extremely low!
Typical sweatshop in warm southern Kaohsiung!
I advise all fellow locals:
Unless you are completely desperate!
Only come here for an interview or to take a job if you have no other choice with fringe industries, gambling-related industries, black-market organizations...
Nope.
All the listings on 104 Slave Bank are scams! In reality, the salaries are extremely low!
Typical sweatshop in warm southern Taiwan!
I advise all fellow locals:
Only come here if you are completely desperate!
Only come for an interview or to take a job here if you have no other choice, even after trying side-door industries, the gambling industry, black-market organizations...
None.
Everything on 104 Slave Bank is a scam! In reality, the salaries are extremely low!
Typical exploitative sweatshop in the warm south!
I urge all fellow locals:
Unless you are completely desperate,
only come here for an interview or to take a job if you have no choice in fringe industries, gambling-related industries, black-market organizations...
None
Everything on 104 Slave Bank is a scam! In reality, the salaries are extremely low!
The typical sweatshop conditions of southern Taiwan’s “warm city”!
I advise all fellow locals:
Unless you are completely desperate!
Only come here for an interview or to take a job if you have no other choice—even in shady industries, gambling, or black organizations ...
None.
Everything on 104 Slave Bank is a scam! In reality, the salaries are extremely low!
Typical exploitative sweatshop in southern Taiwan!
I advise all fellow locals:
Unless you are completely desperate!
Only come here for an interview or to take a job if you have no other choice in fringe industries, the gambling industry, shady organizations...
None
Everything on 104 Slave Bank is a scam! In reality, the salaries are extremely low!
Typical sweatshop in the warm south!
I advise all fellow locals,
unless you are completely desperate!
Only come here for an interview or to take a job
if you have no other choice, such as in fringe industries, the gambling industry, or shady organizations ...
They are evasive when it comes to discussing salary
They act as if the salary listed on the job website does not exist.
In reality, when formally signing the employment contract, they hire you at a surprisingly low salary—the actual salary is completely different from the one listed on the website.
Every day is extremely busy, from morning until night. It’s very fulfilling—so fulfilling that it makes you question your life.
The supervisors and managers are all the standard type who take advantage of anyone they can push around.
This job is well suited to people with very assertive personalities who can’t sit still.
1. The work covered by this job title is actually divided among three positions (materials control, purchasing, and quality control),
which means you have to take on at least the workload of three people.
2. The title says “Materials Management Administrative Assistant,”
but in reality, all kinds of miscellaneous factory tasks and consumables that need to be purchased are lumped into this position for you to handle.
Even things that other departments are unwilling to do are thrown at you.
On top of the work described above + item 6,
you’ll be busy every day until late, with absolutely no time for yourself.
3. The supervisor fawns over operators with long tenure and assertive personalities.
As described above, tasks they refuse to do are also handed over to you.
However, if you usually put up with everything and only protest once you’ve reached your limit,
the supervisor will completely ignore you and even snap at you,
because the only people he fears are those more aggressive and ruthless than he is.
4. The bonuses distributed by the company are already pitifully small,
and the amount each person receives is still calculated based on the rating given by the supervisor.
Even if you complete all the work that is actually “within your duties,”
if you don’t comply with the demands in item 6,
the supervisor will also decide that you are difficult to work with and give you a very low rating for not meeting the company’s needs.
5. The supervisor obsessively pressures you to reduce inventory,
constantly interfering with and criticizing your inventory levels.
Even if you do exactly as he says,
if a material shortage causes the production line to be unable to operate, the supervisor will push all the blame onto you,
and make you explain yourself to the other departments.
The pressure is enormous every day, and this is simply far beyond what anyone should have to bear under the title of “assistant.”
6. If you can finish all of the above within eight hours a day,
congratulations! He’ll still require you to work overtime until at least 8 p.m. every day + work a full shift every Saturday to do the operators’ jobs.
Then, on payday, he’ll give you an operator’s salary to humiliate you.
You might as well become an operator, earn the same amount, and deal with fewer miserable tasks.
7. If, after reading the above, you change your mind and decide to apply for an operator position,
I remind you to go back and reread item 3.
Everyone was raised by someone’s parents; I strongly suggest you don’t lose your mind and apply to this company.