匠運企業有限公司

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It’s basically a family-run company. I worked briefly in the warehouse and sincerely felt that you had to be one of their family members—or someone close to them who knew how to flatter them—to get help clocking in. You didn’t even need to request leave; you only needed her approval. There was a lot of unequal treatment.

The woman in management really needs to see a psychiatrist; she has major emotional and psychological issues. She tries to control everything at the slightest opportunity. And, to put it bluntly, she has very little ability apart from scrolling on her phone, chatting, and gossiping about people.

She’s supposedly the best—yet can’t do anything?

No company would hire an employee like this, as it affects both the company’s costs and everyone else. But because she’s a relative, there’s nothing they can do?

With so many companies out there, there’s really no need to wrong yourself and waste your life staying in such a two-faced company. (Needless to say, the benefits and atmosphere aren’t any better.)

I think the following two posts were probably written by the same person who is currently employed here.

I chose to turn a blind eye because I thought this colleague disliked the environment and would soon naturally move on, allowing everyone to part on good terms. I chose not to expose them because our usual work interactions were normal. However, after recently seeing the second post, I still feel that the claim “Don’t bring your brains to work” is disrespectful to many colleagues. I have decided to provide information here in response and let readers make their own judgments.

1. I am baffled as to how this colleague’s position would involve taking inventory at an accommodation and staying overnight. Moreover, due to the impact of the pandemic, inventory was conducted once at the beginning of 2020 and suspended until now. Even when our sales associates work overtime and leave late, they take taxis home. How could the company not reimburse taxi fares for inventory work? Besides, how could inventory ever be scheduled so late? Most importantly, this employee was not required to participate in inventory. It is puzzling that hearsay was packaged as personal experience.

2. Have we ever worked overtime on holidays? Even with my seniority, I can hardly recall any experience of working overtime on a holiday, except during the anniversary sale, which occurs once a year for visits to trainee counters and support. The company tradition is that, regardless of position, even supervisors are assigned to the frontline two or three times to experience the frontline environment. Each trainee assignment lasts six to seven hours and comes with one day of compensatory leave. As far as I have seen, compensatory leave is only occasionally not fully used by business supervisors. I do not understand how this relates to this colleague.

Furthermore, since the beginning of 2020, the company has adopted a flexible scheduling system in response to the pandemic. For example, employees can arrive at 8:30 and leave at 4:30, and so on. This genuinely puts self-management into practice. In effect, each person works seven hours per day. Since its implementation, it has been rare to see anyone needing to work a regular eight-hour shift, let alone overtime. Isn’t it normal to occasionally need to concentrate work into a limited period to finish it? Why not mention this flexible scheduling system?

In addition, employees are allowed up to five instances of lateness per month, provided each is within 30 minutes, without a deduction. Only after exceeding that limit must they take personal leave. If someone is always late more than five times a month, shouldn’t they be examining their own work attitude?

3. Other matters described, such as gifts for the three major holidays, the year-end banquet, and the spring banquet, may perhaps be important to this colleague. In recent years, department-store retail has been in a downturn. Things began to improve in 2019, only for the pandemic to arrive in 2020. Since the pandemic began, the company has provided each employee with an individual pandemic insurance policy and has never reduced salaries, placed employees on unpaid leave, or laid them off.

I personally feel this very deeply. To my knowledge, in past years the company prioritized salary adjustments for outstanding frontline employees—those who stabilized the frontline and worked hard for the company. Only this year were office employees generally given adjustments. Perhaps our positions are at different levels, and the speaker truly cannot take the overall environment and the pressure behind it into consideration. Therefore, I will leave it to readers to make their own judgments.

It is unfortunate that you do not have any good memories here, but everyone has a choice. If you dislike it, there is no need to embellish things that did not happen. Leaving may indeed open up a broader horizon.

Compensatory leave and annual leave policies could be made more flexible.

Think carefully—there really aren't any.

A family-owned business, with the Huang family permeating every department.

During the interview, applicants are asked to provide various information. For a company like this, writing all that is simply superfluous; no matter how well you write it, no one genuinely wants to understand the employees’ thoughts.

Although they explicitly said during the interview that business trips would not be required, not only do we have to travel for work, but we also have to stay overnight. To save money, the company even compresses our schedules and only provides accommodation when absolutely necessary. More than once, after completing an inventory count and returning to Taipei, it was already midnight, yet they would not reimburse the taxi fare. Was I supposed to walk home?

Even when overtime is genuinely necessary, there is no compensation of any kind. We are required to work overtime or travel on holidays; if you are lucky, you only get compensatory leave, and if you are unlucky, you get nothing at all.

Holiday overtime can only be compensated with weekdays off, and compensatory leave has an expiration date.

The workload is heavy, yet the leave policies are full of restrictions. Sometimes compensatory leave cannot be used up before it is automatically forfeited.

Taking annual leave essentially costs a full day; being half an hour late automatically results in being required to take one hour of personal leave.

Where is the justification?

Where is the justice?

There is no year-end banquet, no spring banquet, no prize drawing, and no rewards.

Even the once-a-year company dinner consists of takeout. There is only that one meal a year, and the food is terrible. Red-envelope bonuses for the three major holidays are at most 500, and sometimes only 200 or nothing at all.

Every elder in the family is the same: things they have said can be treated as if they were never said, while things they never said are presented as though they really did say them and you simply were not listening.

None of the rules have any consistent standards; the only standard is whatever the boss or supervisor says.

In short, the rule for surviving here

is simply: don’t bring your brain to work.

The information on the job websites is a complete scam.

What the supervisor says during the interview is simply a lie.

Absolutely none, none, none

An unbelievably terrible company. All the benefits listed online

are completely nonexistent—they're all lies!

The salary never increases, and they love micromanaging everything.

They even stipulate that annual leave can only be taken one day at a time.

They don't follow the Labor Standards Act at all; they act as if they themselves are the law.

A single pineapple cake for each of the three major festivals—better not to give anything at all.

Extremely stingy; the holiday gift money is also pitifully small!

There is no such thing as an end-of-year banquet or a spring gathering, let alone a lucky draw.

You also have to sit at the company and listen to the boss ramble on endlessly. At company dinners, they serve dumplings that cost two dollars each, and even stipulate that each person can only eat ten. No one can get full—is the goal to starve the employees to death?

The company is willing to spend money on advertising but is extremely stingy with its employees. Absolutely awful!

They even require employees to buy the company's bags, and you must carry one to work—they check. It's a family business where people only talk and hardly anyone can actually get things done.

They bully others by throwing their weight around, pick on the weak, and rely on seniority to lord it over people.

Anyway, don't go there or you'll regret it. It's a waste of time.

It's a terrible company with no prospects; you have to watch everyone's mood all day long!

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There were no particular issues during the interview process. From the conversation, I only felt that the company manager had an arrogant attitude; those with insufficient qualifications would only be arbitrarily criticized if they went there.

You no longer have to fill out a large number of forms for the interview.

The overall interview experience was fairly good. However, from the conversation, it could be inferred that the company was understaffed, that turnover was high in certain positions, and that the salaries were probably well below current market rates, which is why the vacancies had remained open for so long.

Simply put, if you have experience, they cannot afford to hire you; if you lack experience, they will not hire you.

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Family-owned company, you feel constrained in getting things done, compensation... hmm... hard to say... use your imagination...