國紡企業股份有限公司

1. Colleagues are generally easy to get along with.

2. You’re expected to understand everything, which helps train you to be a multitasker.

1. The senior management is narrow-minded, self-important, and out of touch, like they’re elementary school students in meetings.

2. Extremely stingy. Year-end bonuses take your overtime pay for the entire year into account—if you report a lot of overtime, it gets deducted from your year-end bonus.

3. Year-end bonuses are not based on performance; they depend on whether you have connections with senior management.

4. The work environment is extremely poor: cramped spaces, solvents everywhere, and electrical wires like a spiderweb.

5. A family business with no systems—the boss has the final say, and all you can do is tell them how great they are.

6. All they do every day is complain and berate people, often using profanity. If they’re unhappy, they slam the table—clearly, they have no idea what self-restraint means.

7. They explicitly indicate that overtime applications are not allowed, with a rule requiring employees to clock out before 5:30 p.m.

The colleagues are fairly easy to get along with. Walking around often can help you lose weight.

Some noise and chemical odors may be bad for your health.

The company’s budget is limited in all areas, including employee meals.

1. None

1. Reluctant to provide transportation subsidies

2. Work allocation is uneven and unclear

3. You can waste an entire day in meetings with no conclusions

4. Useless colleagues can earn high salaries while chatting and watching shows online every day

5. The company’s senior management lives in an ivory tower and thinks their company is wonderful and making lots of money

6. As is typical of family businesses, there are relatives who think employees are their servants: employees even have to wash cups, take out the trash, and deliver lunch, while they sit inside scrolling on their phones, sleeping, and browsing online shops. They also monitor employees, standing behind their screens and watching them

7. Department managers have no relevant professional knowledge, so those working under them have no idea what they are busy with every day

8. The company is extremely stingy when it comes to salary increases and bonuses

9. The two performance reviews each year are merely a formality; in reality, it depends on the top manager’s impression of you

10. Many things have no formal SOP; each time, people just have to rely on their own judgment

11. On the surface, they say they value young people and that young people are the future of the company, but in reality, the older employees are treated as wonderful, and every mistake is blamed on the younger employees

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1. Out-of-touch and self-righteous senior management; meetings feel like elementary school classes

2. Extremely stingy—the performance bonus is included in the total salary

3. The year-end bonus is not based on performance, but on whether you have connections with senior management

4. The working environment is terrible: cramped spaces with solvents everywhere

5. A family-run business with no systems; the boss has the final say

6. Every day, all they do is complain, berate people, and slam the table—they have no idea what professionalism means

7. It is explicitly prohibited to apply for overtime; employees are required to clock out before 5:30 p.m.

https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Salary/M.1462370243.A.1E8.html

Excerpt:

Position interviewed for: Domestic Sales Specialist

Company products: Various hook-and-loop fasteners (Velcro)

Interview process: (1) First, I took a personality test and written tests (Chinese and mathematics).

(2) Interviewed with the Sales Manager. I first introduced myself and briefly described my competitive advantages, followed by a Q&A session. They asked several more unusual questions: What was the previous year's EPS of your former company? What was its stock price yesterday? Your major does not provide much of a business background; how would you make up for that?

Thoughts: When we subsequently discussed salary, the interviewer said: “Last week, someone from the College of Commerce at National Chengchi University came for an interview. He asked for 35K, and I said that we would have to discuss that figure further. That same week, someone from the College of Commerce at National Central University asked for 32K, and I said that you might have to lower it a little. So, considering that you do not have a business-school background, how much do you think you should ask for?”

Salary: I guessed NT$26K–28K.

Result: We could not reach an agreement on salary, and there was no further follow-up.

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The HR staff were very nice and prepared tea and water.

The intelligence test in the written exam was not too difficult.

The job posting did not say that they were only recruiting people for overseas assignments. After I arrived and finished the written exam, they said that they were currently only looking for people for overseas assignments, wasting everyone’s time. An overseas assignment lasts at least four years, and for an overseas assignment, the salary is pitifully low.

The HR and manager interviewers were very kind, but when I met the general manager, they suddenly seemed difficult to deal with. There is no room for growth in this traditional industry, the pay is low, and yet they still make things difficult.

The moment I saw the environment, I felt disheartened: traditional decor, an old building, and even the chairs were black and broken. It looked like the company had no money. Anyone with a junior high school education could answer the interview questions—they were extremely boring. However, the general manager asked a bunch of irrelevant questions during the interview, seemingly only wanting to persuade people to accept an overseas assignment while ignoring everything else. After I declined the overseas assignment, they still lured me into joining the company, and then tried to send me to Vietnam after I joined.

1. Close to an MRT station, in a convenient location in Taipei.

2. Everyone at the company is gray-haired and elderly, so you don’t need to dress up or seek enjoyment at work.

3. Because of the boss’s high-pressure control, the atmosphere among colleagues is peaceful and calm.

1. A classic family business. If you are a member of the imperial family, you can watch Korean dramas at the front desk every day until retirement.

2. The company has many redundant employees, some even inherited from the previous-generation boss. Since they cannot be removed, newcomers without connections are guaranteed to be left cleaning up the mess.

3. Even though it is an office job, drinking beverages and using mobile phones at work are prohibited. Even what you eat for lunch is controlled by the general manager. (Martial law?)

4. Regarding the previous point, don’t think the boss is merely showing concern for you. If you offend the boss or fail to meet their expectations, you will be dismissed immediately.

5. The company has many long-serving older employees. The traditional industry does not value appearance; with drooping outer eye corners and aging looks, they are an eyesore.

6. The company claims to be making money, yet operates in an old building with a dangerously rickety elevator. The most outrageous thing of all: employees have to take turns emptying the food-waste bin.

7. The textile industry pays little, offers no prospects, and is moving production overseas.

8. Because the factory is in Vietnam, the company only wants to recruit people to work in Vietnam. However, the older employees’ bodies cannot handle it, so they have to recruit newcomers instead. But the pay is low—why would young people accept an overseas assignment here instead of looking for another company?

9. Because they cannot find suitable people, they have no choice but to deceive applicants.

10. The company offers very few benefits. Even the employee trip is held only once every two years. Although it boasts about making money, not many employees get to go, and it is only a domestic trip. There are no parking spaces and no subsidies.

Conclusion: The fact that it is a traditional industry and a family business alone is enough to rule it out. Having employees take turns emptying food waste and having the boss control what you eat and drink proves that the people in this company have far too much free time. Since many people cannot be dismissed, newcomers not only have to accept overseas assignments but also do these people’s work, all for very little money. Think carefully before applying.