有限責任台灣主婦聯盟生活消費合作社

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This cooperative does not seem to care much about an employee’s actual background. Instead, it seems more concerned with years of service and whether they will let the cooperative push them around—for example, arbitrarily accepting job transfers, overtime, holiday work, and so on. This is what you might call bullying through the abuse of power, or perhaps the aim is to lower job seekers’ salaries, or maybe it is the legendary “stress-resistance test”?

In any case, it is unclear, and there is no need to find out.

Furthermore, to accommodate this cooperative’s “holiday activities,” even positions that may not normally require it could involve working on holidays. This could be a warning sign: employees may be required to travel domestically or overseas to provide support, although what they would be supporting is unknown. It is even more confusing whether, regardless of their position, employees at this cooperative are expected to become checkout staff or movers of some kind.

Whether young or old, it is recommended that you not go to an interview at this cooperative when you have nothing better to do. Otherwise, you may only invite humiliation and give the HR staff an opportunity to vent their frustrations about life on job seekers.

Finishing work at 5 p.m., with meals provided (although when there is a large quantity of a certain dish, you may need to eat the same dish for an entire week in a row, and sometimes the food is overly greasy or salty, I am still grateful).

1. There are many bosses. Besides your supervisor, employees, board members, and supervisors can all come and tell you to do things, and they can change the direction of your work at any time, so you need to be prepared to do pointless work frequently.

2. There are indeed a few people within the cooperative system who genuinely respect employees, but in recent years, more and more directors have treated employees as gofers and servants. They say things like “You’ve worked hard” and that employee and member staff should cooperate and respect each other... but it is all hypocritical. In reality, they consider themselves the bosses, and employees are expected to obey. (I still remember that during new employee training they said cooperatives were different from outside companies—ridiculous.)

3. If you only want a stable job to coast toward retirement, you may consider it. If you are looking for career development, forget it; almost all supervisors are recruited from outside.

4. The inferior drive out the superior: people with weaker abilities are given less work so that supervisors do not have to clean up afterward, while capable people are given more work, supposedly to “cultivate” them, but the pay is more or less the same.

1. There are no particular advantages.

2. HR will teach you how to interview for your next job.

3. HR will tell you what is wrong with your résumé and what needs to be revised.

Although the interview took place several years ago, I only thought of this now. I’m genuinely worried that someone might go for an interview and end up furious if I don’t leave a review.

1. First, when filling out the résumé, you cannot state “career planning” as the reason for leaving your previous job.

2. I remember there being sarcastic remarks during the interview, especially when you did not react promptly to a question and could not answer. It was particularly severe.

3. The interviewers will ask you some questions, but if your answers do not match the answers they have in mind, they may become furious.

4. At the end, the interviewer will ask whether you have any questions. If any of the situations above occur, just tell them “Thank you, I’ll be in touch,” and leave. Don’t waste time chatting with the interviewer there; the interviewer doesn’t really want to talk with you either.

5. Then, the company interviews people for monkey jobs according to human standards and pays salaries in bananas.

That’s what happened during my interview with this company. The interviewer acted so high and mighty that I was completely stunned. This is a warning for anyone considering interviewing there.

The interviewer was very polite during the interview.

Many things were not stated honestly. For example, there is no flexible leave based on the government calendar; you must participate in the employee welfare committee (NT$300 deducted monthly) to receive birthday gifts, Labor Day bonuses, employee trips, year-end party lucky draws, and other benefits. Although working hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., you must return to your workstation immediately after finishing lunch. The workload is much heavier than expected, and tasks assigned by the supervisor also account for a significant portion of the work!

There aren’t many employees at the branch, and everyone gets along very well. The relationships with the members are also very good.

Double pay is provided on national holidays.

Even employees have to be members, which could be seen as a form of shared ideological commitment, considering that it is a cooperative open only to members.

The physical labor is fairly demanding. Moving things when receiving shipments is manageable, but you have to stand for most of the time.

The salary is not actually that high either. Compared with the many wonderful ideals it promotes, this aspect is not so wonderful.