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Shipping products without quality inspection
Wasting everyone's time
Performance is performance; people who don't do any work can just pad the numbers and still meet the target... making the whole system meaningless.
People who work seriously go unnoticed... and, comparatively, people who slack off, shirk, and cut corners also go unnoticed... There was a pay raise this May~~ someone who had worked here for 9 years didn't get a raise, while someone who had worked for less than a year did... One department is only busy for a few months a year and is idle for about 8 months of the year otherwise. That's how idle they are—wandering around all day pretending to be busy... fiddling with this and that... otherwise going to other departments to chat with the people operating the machines. Yes, I'm talking about you!
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Company policies often like to mess with employees. For example, they claim to be considerate of employees’ hardships traveling home for the Lunar New Year by giving them an extra day off at the start of their annual leave, but it is actually deducted from your vacation days. Or, when a client is coming, they may suddenly take back your parking space and tell you to park outside, even though the nearest parking lot is more than a 30-minute walk from the company. Internally, things are basically governed by personal relationships; if you have a good relationship with the people above you, life is easier.
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I advise anyone thinking about joining: don’t put yourself through it.
The company’s year-end bonuses, pay raises, and promotions are entirely based on the company’s mood, with no clear standards whatsoever.
The overtime hours almost always exceed the limits stipulated by the Labor Standards Act.
Managers only pick the easy tasks to do, then just sit back and give directions. “Hey, Hong, try doing it yourself and see if you can actually get it done.”
That’s what they’re saying to you.
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1. The salary is different from what was discussed during the interview, 10k lower
2. The job duties are different from what was discussed during the interview
3. The supervisor constantly watches your screen to see what you are doing while you work
4. The supervisor requires you to watch videos first to understand the job duties, but then calls you in for a meeting and says you are slacking off
5. The supervisor frequently makes sexually suggestive jokes
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Almost everyone who previously made the news for driving an Audi or Porsche has resigned.
Those left are either the boss’s relatives or useless old-timers who couldn’t change career paths after resigning.
The boss runs a one-man show and loves making grand promises.
They never review problems with the company’s internal processes.
They only berate managers like dogs.
The night shift provides meals, and that's it!
Low pay, lots of work. Overtime pay is available now. On average, there are 1–2 hours of overtime per day, and meal breaks are short (effectively overtime?). Year-end bonuses are given at management's discretion. The news is all fake; the benefits are really not that great. There have been no pay raises for four or five years, and the pay is even lower than that of new hires. When working overtime, you're also sarcastically accused of deliberately working slowly just to claim overtime pay. I truly do not recommend this company—it is extremely exploitative. The atmosphere at work is terrible; everything is controlled, just like under martial law.
To young people just entering the workforce: don't act impulsively—stay away!
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Long working hours, and the supervisor plays favorites. There is no overtime pay. When a machine breaks down, you have to fix it yourself, and if you can’t fix it, you have to call in a technician. There are also quite a few people who got in through backdoor connections. The supervisor only pays lip service; you do all the hard work, while others get all the credit.
You pay welfare fees but don’t get to use any of the benefits. You even have to pay someone else to clean the toilets, and the person doing the cleaning is apparently a company foreign worker? How strange.
F***ing awful. They don’t pay overtime unless it’s peak season. There’s this much work—are you blaming us for that?
A f***ing cheapskate boss has raised a f***ing lousy supervisor.
The machine parts have been broken for ages, causing defects in the products, and they still won’t replace them.
I don’t know how the other departments are,
but the raw materials in our department are always the really cheap stuff.
Do you really think customers are all idiots who can’t tell the difference?
Let’s just hope you never get an order from a professional photographer.
It’s supposed to be “highest quality, lowest price,”
but it’s really “lowest price (cost), even lower quality (product).”
It’s slavery, no doubt about it. We’re also forced to work overtime, and now, in these difficult times, they expect us to work overtime without pay!! The company is full of useless old deadweight and managers; it’s always the same few people who are overloaded. When they can’t finish their own work, we have to help them with it, and the managers are also full of self-importance. There are loads of people who got in through the back door, and the clients are a bunch of idiots too. It’s always the employees’ fault, and we still have to clean up after the clients. The boss is a textbook exploitative employer—you can tell just from the way they usually speak and express their opinions! The benefits are terrible. The boxed lunches are awful every day; they claim they’re worth NT$80, but employees still have to pay NT$60 for each one. They taste like shit!