積水塑膠管材股份有限公司

There aren't really any particular advantages.

If I had to name one, the salary is just slightly higher than average in the coastal area,

but not by much.

1. Since this is a Japanese subsidiary, Japanese senior executives are sent here to serve as chairman, general manager, and deputy general manager. However, they return to Japan after a three-year term, so basically they don't concern themselves with the other Taiwanese employees.

2. The managers in the Taiwanese production units—such as assistant managers, section chiefs, deputy general managers, and general managers—are very low-caliber and like to smear others for no reason. If you don't know them, they'll smear you behind your back. Those groups of people who think they're very capable will also band together to target others. In short, unless the company offers a salary of over NT$70,000, I don't recommend coming here. This is a place where people with nowhere else to go work. The standards of the traditional companies and industry culture in the coastal area are simply very low. Don't expect to communicate or work with people here using the mindset of a civilized person, because the entire company is full of uncultured people; they'll just think you're weird and looking for trouble. At work, there are also people who misuse regulations to increase other people's workloads. The most outrageous thing is that the accountant is also expected to handle finance and human resources duties—an extremely strange company. Otherwise, an assistant manager or deputy general manager will bring relatives and friends in to work and immediately get them promoted. There are also people who falsify overtime claims: on holidays, they clock in and then go out immediately. The company makes very little profit, so don't expect any benefits. Those managerial staff can spend all day chatting and eating when they have nothing to do, but when they see someone else doing the same, it's suddenly unacceptable. It's extremely laughable.

A good place to slack off at work and coast toward retirement. It is recommended that you wait six months before taking your work seriously. Some people curry favor for six months, get promoted to section head despite knowing nothing, and only then start working seriously. Don’t work seriously before getting promoted—otherwise, you are destined to remain on a fixed salary. Many people there have worked for less than a year and were directly promoted to section-head level. Returning after resignation is also possible: if you cannot find a job outside, you can still receive a raise and return as a section head or department supervisor; there are precedents. Have you ever seen a unit supposedly dedicated to technical development where only two people actually do drafting, while the rest do not understand AutoCAD and only have beginner-level skills, yet all receive high salaries? Returning to technical development can even mean being parachuted into a salary close to section-head level, without the section-head title, while one’s drafting ability remains only at a high-school level. Have you ever seen a Japanese company where all the top supervisors are very senior but have little education and do not speak Japanese? This is a suitable place for people who enjoy drinking, chatting, fooling around, slacking off, and giving up on life.

People with high educational qualifications should not come. If you have ability and join, you will find that everyone else drags you down and wastes your life. The managers and senior officials there are all poorly educated—the lowest has only graduated from elementary school—so there is a gap in communication and thinking, and they cannot understand what validation is. If you are unpopular or have a poor attitude, even if you work efficiently and save the company money, your pay may still be cut. You can get a raise only by emptying your mind and obeying. If you stay too long, you will be unable to leave the stagnant pool because you will already have lost the ability to think. Simply put, the more you know and the more you do, the more likely your contributions are to be taken by others. Unless you know Japanese, a Japanese translator may distort what you originally meant.

You can slack off at work; it’s a good place to coast. It’s recommended that you wait until after the first year to take the job. During the first year, focus on seriously judging whether you have a chance of being promoted. Many people there have been promoted directly to director-level positions without even staying for a full year. If you resign and later return, even if you can’t find a job elsewhere, you may still get a raise and return as a director or section manager—there are precedents. You don’t have to take responsibility for mistakes. In the event of a small factory fire, facilities staff continue to receive their salaries without deductions or having to bear responsibility. For dock construction, if a contractor makes a mistake and has to redo the work, wasting company money, your performance rating can still remain excellent.

People with high educational qualifications should not come. The managers and senior executives there generally have low levels of education; the minimum is elementary school graduation, so there can be gaps in communication and ways of thinking. If you are unpopular and have a poor attitude, even if you work efficiently and save the company money, your pay may still be docked.