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Read the community guidelines1. Two months’ year-end bonus (but I’ve heard that some people didn’t receive it because of poor performance reviews, while others received more because of good performance reviews).
2. The company has promising prospects and is growing steadily. Working here does not give you a sense that the company’s future is doomed.
3. Salary adjustments every year; the amount varies. I’ve heard of increases in the three-digit range.
4. The boss is very willing to hire people. Basically, as long as you meet the boss’s hiring criteria, regardless of whether you have relevant experience—even if you have just graduated—the boss is willing to hire you. The company is quite willing to give young people opportunities, and young employees can hone their skills here.
5. The boss has strong principles. Production and manufacturing are entirely MIT, with no relocation to China.
6. The employee trips are reportedly well catered and accommodated. There are domestic and overseas employee trips, and employees can choose for themselves.
1. There are no flexible holidays and no typhoon days off.
It is said that if you take leave on a typhoon day, the boss will silently label you in his mind. During my employment, I happened to encounter one typhoon day. I came to work as usual, but that day the boss announced a NT$50 meal subsidy for each person, and in the afternoon, seeing that the wind and rain were too strong, announced that everyone could leave at 3 p.m. Truly a benevolent company.
2. Office-building staff do not receive overtime pay; the production and packaging departments do.
(However, if employees in certain office-building departments leave too early, the boss will think they are lazy and not diligent. In addition, some department heads also believe that working overtime is a sign of being serious, responsible, and ambitious about one’s work.)
3. Local rumors say that the boss is very stingy—and it is indeed true! The air conditioning can only be turned on with the boss’s approval. In summer, it is basically turned on at 10 a.m., though occasionally it is not turned on until noon. However, various benefits (such as year-end banquet prizes) have been gradually improving since the second generation began taking over.
4. Regarding the second generation taking over as mentioned above, anyone observant should already have realized that this is a family business. Those in power are basically people connected to the boss, so promotion opportunities are very limited. As long as you are connected to the boss, or your supervisor is a favorite of the boss, you can basically do whatever you want in the company, behaving like an uncivilized barbarian with no manners, and essentially no one can do anything to you. Conversely, if you offend one of the boss’s favorites or someone connected to the boss, and those people intentionally bad-mouth you to the boss, you are basically finished.
5. Since this is a chemical company engaged in exports, there is a great deal of specialized knowledge to learn. However, the company’s training and systems are extremely incomplete: they often teach you only 30% before sending you into battle, while still expecting 100% performance from you!
6. The company has unwritten rules: sales positions are only offered to men, while sales-assistant positions are only offered to women. The boss believes that men should work outside the home and women should manage the household.
(Workplace gender discrimination?)
7. Managers in several departments occasionally like to criticize and attack people based on their personality traits. They also believe that, having returned from studying abroad, their abilities, experience, and competence are superior to everyone else’s, when in reality their families simply had enough money to send them to low-quality schools overseas.