英屬維京群島商祥茂光電科技股份有限公司台灣分公司

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A toxic environment, mostly filled with bad managers and bad employees bullying people together

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The HR department's professionalism is severely lacking—they even took the wrong personnel information without realizing the error~ The tablet used for the written test also had problems, and even the phone was broken.

The supervisor's competence is severely lacking; they completely lack understanding of mechanical and electrical control principles. During the supervisor interview, they asked me to explain how I would handle troubleshooting issues I had encountered. Uh... I haven't even joined yet, and you already want me to answer your questions. Even if I answer correctly, you still can't put your ego aside~?

Interviewees should be careful not to end up providing free consulting~~

1. The employee cafeteria meal costs only 40 per meal

2. Overtime pay is calculated more favorably than required by the Labor Standards Act

3. Shuttle buses are provided for commuting to and from work

4. The hourly wage for dispatched workers is very high

1. Policies change three times a day

2. Too many foreign workers and too few Taiwanese workers

3. Overtime is frequent

The company's exterior and facade look newly renovated.

There are too many elderly, weak, women, children, and disabled people inside; basically, there is a serious staffing gap.

The positions appropriate for talented people have not been properly allocated, resulting in shady dealings in every department.

Management is completely disorganized.

Things are getting worse and worse.

A bunch of useless people are welcome to join and practice their skills.

The environment is clean, thanks to the hardworking cleaning staff.

Poor systems and policies

Managers incite subordinates to take sides

Employees are maliciously forced out

Reading non-work-related books during working hours

Insufficient professional knowledge and skills in the department

Passing the buck and completely incompetent

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A company that is extremely discriminatory toward its operators. Operators are not allowed to use the elevators, and they are not allowed to eat in the better restaurant seats with televisions. Supervisors also treat operators like dogs, saying things like, “When you come here to work, the supervisor is the boss!” Then, during the off-season, they start finding all kinds of reasons to fire employees, specifically targeting them. The workplace is full of all kinds of people, with internal departmental infighting and constantly changing instructions, causing those below to frame one another. Working at this company feels like being in Squid Game.

The Vietnamese girl is easy to get along with

Severe factional infighting

The higher-ups are arrogant

They vent their anger recklessly and frame people they dislike

They are constantly trying to save money and cut staff

Benefits have been slashed, and they also love to exploit employees

They nitpick leave requests; they’ll indulge people they like no matter what

They have a hardline attitude and don’t show any goodwill

The experience of someone who has worked at the grassroots level for more than three years

The buffet was okay, but the set meal was awful.

What a waste of time. If you don't want to train new hires, then don't recruit them.

....I really can't think of anything

Don't believe the sweet talk of staffing agencies, and don't get duped by the positive reviews on other websites either!!

Good benefits, annual salary adjustments… these are true, but only for "regular employees." As for "派遣人員," go eat dirt somewhere else.

So how long until you can become a regular employee and enjoy all the benefits and salary adjustments? Just keep waiting…

Staffing agencies all say that as long as you perform well, you can become a regular employee in about a year. But many people have waited two or three years, and some have already been there for five years, yet their status is still that of dispatched workers. They have no idea when they will be able to become regular employees. In the end, they all give up and resign. Is it because these people performed too poorly and therefore weren't qualified?

If any supervisor from the relevant department dares to come out and say loudly that these dispatched workers who have been there for several years couldn't become regular employees because their performance ratings were too poor, then I'll hand out fried chicken cutlets and bubble tea at the front entrance of 祥茂.

Pros

1. In the R&D department, compared with typical Taiwanese companies, the starting salary for fresh graduates is slightly higher than elsewhere, but there is no overtime pay, while you are still expected to work overtime constantly. Therefore, the salary’s cost-performance ratio is no better than at a system manufacturer. Unless you are very good at pushing work onto others. The working hours are naturally shorter, and then the cost-performance ratio is higher.

2. There are no other advantages.

1. The systems are very chaotic, and departmental responsibilities are unclear. They keep changing things back and forth. The bosses at the top only want tasks completed, but do not care who completes them—so whoever cannot push work onto others is the one who suffers. Bad money drives out good money, and the culture is getting worse and worse.

2. The company has a serious culture of overtime and shirking responsibility. Capable people do not stay for long; you can imagine what remains. Over time, most of the people are jerks who push their work onto others, and people with less than three years of experience. If you want to work with a lot of idiots, welcome here.

3. The company is still in the Stone Age, using paper-based routing and signatures for 99% of its documents. It is such a useless company that it does not even have a system. The MIS staff leave work on time every day, which is practically miraculous.

4. The restaurant food is awful.

Overtime pay better than required by the Labor Standards Act

Free hot showers

That's all.

The people at the top take advantage of you when you're useful, patting you on the head and making you wag your tail. When you're no longer valuable, they smear you until you become a public enemy. If they want to get rid of someone, they even send spies to take photos, videos, and audio recordings.

Now let's talk about the difference between black and white. Black = being called in for a talk over trivial matters, and not being allowed to take sick leave. White = eating chicken cutlets in the work area without a problem, no problem when a product fails, and being allowed to take leave when your pet is discharged from the hospital.

As an operator, you can happily get through every day by playing dumb and pretending not to understand!

As for the other departments, you might as well go sell sausages at the night market!

People who curry favor and suck up can work overtime and go out to eat, and can also take more leave hours than the company regulations allow. The clueless people who play dumb and pretend not to understand don’t have to do miscellaneous tasks, while the smart ones have to take on a whole pile of them—and if they don’t do them well, they still get lectured.

Supervisors even ask people on the day shift to work overtime to check whether their own colleagues on the night shift have any problems. It feels awful.

The quality assurance practices in this department are really [expletive]; the rules keep changing. What those below say isn’t allowed, those above say is allowed. The audits have also gone way too far, losing the meaning and purpose the unit itself should have.

The benefits here are fairly good, but genuinely talented people are often overlooked. What a pity…

Overtime pay is better than required by the Labor Standards Act.

Employee meals cost NT$40 per meal, and you can also choose a convenience-store meal.

There’s air conditioning (this was the reason I joined in the first place).

There is a lot of discrimination against operators. Aside from the elevator and refrigerator issues,

I don’t know why the office staff seem to have unfriendly expressions whenever they see operators (maybe I’m being too sensitive?).

Recently, we switched to fully enclosed cleanroom suits to reduce particle contamination.

The difference from the previous cleanroom suits is that they have no pockets, so there’s nowhere to put anything. Before, we could at least put things like masks and finger cots in them.

The main point is that they’re extremely hot and stuffy! I developed heat rash after wearing one for only a few days...

Overtime pay is better than required by the Labor Standards Act.

A company that discriminates heavily against production workers. Not only are elevator operators prohibited from using the elevators, but access to refrigerators is also restricted to those in the cafeteria and on B2. Office support staff, on the other hand, have one refrigerator each on the first, fourth, and fifth floors. They do not need to walk back and forth for 10 minutes to the cafeteria or constantly climb up and down the stairs—they have refrigerators available for use.

Production workers make up the majority of the company’s employees, so the refrigerators are packed full every day. If you want to refrigerate something, you have to find a way to squeeze it in. The refrigerators reserved for office staff, however, are completely empty. It is always just the same few people using them.

The salary is not too bad; pay is reasonable based on education and experience, and overtime is paid.

They do not understand other people’s areas of expertise and randomly assign job openings. Internal personnel changes and infighting are extremely serious. The quality assurance manager brought in a bunch of parachuted-in managers who can get paid without doing any work, while anyone recruited from outside is exploited to death. The parachuted-in managers only make grandiose statements; although they manage the production line, they do not even understand what is going on in the factory. The people below are overwhelmed with work, while the people above only want to engage in infighting, reduce the concentration of power, and consolidate their own faction.

The quality assurance center holds a bunch of meetings all day long, from morning to night, wasting time. In the end, only the people at the bottom are left scrambling to get things done. The meeting location is an open-plan meeting room with not even any walls! This seriously affects nearby colleagues at work. The meeting content also seems intended to demonstrate and consolidate their own power and status, while making everyone watch other people being questioned and acting overly deferential. It is extremely uncomfortable.

The employee cafeteria food is terrible. There is only a buffet, with nothing else available. The area outside the company is extremely desolate, and even the nearest convenience store requires a long walk. The company is already located in a very remote area, and parking is limited. Although the nearby parking spaces are free, you still have to compete for a spot in the morning.

The front desk reception was pretty good.

HR spoke fairly positively about the company benefits.

Both the department manager and the HR manager are very young.

The HR manager is not Taiwanese; their mannerisms are very much like those of the prime-time dramas on FTV and SET TV.

The starting salary for quality inspectors is the same as that for operators, but there are no other allowances (the production line has allowances for welding stations, microscope stations, and the like). Compared with operators, they have to handle more varied and complicated tasks and bear greater responsibility, yet their average pay is somewhat lower. Some colleagues feel that this makes the company seem as though it does not place much importance on quality assurance.

The quality assurance supervisors believe that quality inspectors are at a higher level. They do not allow those who have difficulty adapting and want to transfer to the production line to do so. (Personally, I think the supervisor may feel that transferring from a higher-level position to a lower-level one would make them lose face.)

One supervisor seems to have difficulty understanding things. When simple matters were reported in the group chat, they replied that they could not understand and demanded a detailed explanation. The problem was that the report concerned very straightforward figures that were outside the specified range—everyone else in the group understood them, didn’t they? The supervisor even lost their temper over it...

That supervisor also replies to emails particularly quickly and frequently forwards emails, even emails that did not really need to be forwarded by them (the recipients already had copies). Other departments even joked to us, “Your supervisor has it great—all they have to do is read emails.”

As for the advantages that make me feel better about the company for frontline employees, it would probably be that they are relatively willing to pay overtime. That is why I did not give a negative review. Although there are limits on the number of hours, as long as you work overtime, perform the work, and report it, you will receive overtime pay. On weekdays, the rate is 1.6 times the hourly wage for the first two hours of overtime and 1.9 times the hourly wage thereafter. The hourly wage is calculated based on total pay (base salary + perfect-attendance bonus + meal allowance). Due to the hour limits, weekday overtime is limited to four hours. Overtime on holidays is paid at double time. Therefore, the “one regular day off and one rest day” system only affects overtime in that rest-day overtime is now calculated in four-hour units.

Those considering joining this company may want to consider working as an operator. The company is recently considering switching to a shift-work system, with an additional shift allowance. If you want to apply for a quality inspector position, please consider it carefully. As for other positions, I will leave it to other colleagues to add information. Thank you.