社團法人中華民國全國中小企業總會

A place for fresh graduates to gain experience, perhaps, because the salary is set very low, so they can only trick workplace newcomers for the time being.

The 6th, 19th, and 2nd floors next door are all part of the same center. Since many of the projects are government projects from the Ministry of Labor, the workplace culture inside is also very conservative and traditional. The senior managers are all old-timers who have been sitting around for ages, have numb legs, and do not have much ability.

You are given the title of Project A, but in reality you end up handling a pile of tasks for Projects B, C, and D. There is endless overtime on weekdays, and an overtime culture is widespread. You also have to provide temporary support for weekend activities from time to time. You can only exchange the overtime for compensatory leave, not overtime pay. After refusing, they even say that the year-end performance review will examine those "employees who cannot cooperate with weekend overtime." What a joke. How much is the salary? They still expect you to cooperate with mandatory weekend overtime. To hell with that—whoever wants this lousy job can do it.

When you use the compensatory leave earned from all that overtime during weekdays, people will even make sarcastic remarks: "Wow, you have time to take leave."

Nonsense == Isn't compensatory leave and overtime supposed to be used on weekdays? Do you want people to violate the Labor Standards Act or what???

Because the culture is traditional and conservative, when you see a "manager from another floor," you are expected to greet them. Please, how am I supposed to know who you are??? Did you buy me a drink when you got promoted to manager? If not, why should I know you????

There are so many of these old-fashioned bad habits, as if becoming a manager makes you some kind of official ==

One manager, because they were using one person as two, was under so much pressure that during work hours they would mutter: "I really want to jump from here. If I died, I wouldn't have to work." These kinds of extremely negative, attention-seeking remarks make the entire office feel oppressive. If you want to jump, then jump—why keep muttering about it=..=

The elevators are hard to catch during commuting hours, the pay is low, the workload is explosively large, people are not respected, an overtime culture is widespread, and the managers have bipolar disorder.

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6th floor

First, the supervisor: a pattern that seriously affects personal social life—employees are required to chat with every colleague during work hours, and not chatting is apparently not acceptable (is it really not okay to just want to work seriously?? She thinks that means you don’t fit in ^^ I remember the supervisor’s name starts with C.

The company’s overall culture still feels like a traditional manufacturing company, with the mindset that people should compete to take on tasks—and also do the work that others can’t finish! She said: “Are young people nowadays all like this, only doing what they’re supposed to do!” (Please, if the salary is only 34, how long am I expected to work overtime??

Regarding the work: they don’t look at your abilities at all. If you’re not the type of obedient employee she likes, and you don’t gossip, she’ll immediately write you off: )

During the interview, they emphasized teamwork so much, but in reality, after finishing your own work, you still have to work overtime to do the tasks others couldn’t finish—especially when we handle different types of work ^^

The supervisor also takes the lead in privately asking other colleagues what they think of you. Wait, did I hear that correctly?? And the supervisor personally told me about this.

The office has an extremely high turnover rate. I think the fastest way to improve this is to replace this supervisor first.

Taking leave is fairly easy.

A very poor company culture.

The position I applied for was different from the actual work I was assigned. After raising the issue, I was given a counseling notice and a warning for having too negative an attitude.

There was absolutely no sense of collaboration within the project team. Everyone simply did whatever management said. After I finished writing a proposal, they even used my past experience against me, saying that the types were different and that I should not apply it to the project. They made it sound as though all my previous experience was a joke. Absolutely terrible!

The project team required all communication, whether for discussions or anything else, to take place via LINE. Even though the people involved were sitting right next to each other, they still insisted on using LINE to discuss execution. Fortunately, I had applied for a shared ID instead of using my personal LINE account; otherwise, it would have been extremely annoying.

There was no onboarding for new employees, no introduction to colleagues, and no explanation of the company’s systems. One position on the project had repeatedly been filled only for the new hire to resign, and the handover was completely unclear. When I asked the project supervisor, they only told me to read the work items myself and then threw a planning document at me. In the end, they simply waited for me to make a mistake so they could issue a warning.

I was given three warnings in just two months, along with five or six verbal reprimands and at least six instances of workplace psychological manipulation. They really went to great lengths to drive me away—it was truly exhausting.

They even required employees to remember to greet certain people when riding the elevator. You could not just use their names; you had to add their titles. (Because I did not know them, I addressed them only with an honorific and was issued a warning = = ) If another project had an event and you were assigned to provide support, you had to go—no one asked whether you were willing. Weekly meetings were held every week, but in practice they consisted of calling people in to berate them and use psychological manipulation to undermine their confidence. Upper management did not see any problem with this at all.

On the day I resigned, I was still required to attend a meeting in the conference room and submit a list of handover tasks. I can understand why there was no proper handover: everyone just wanted to escape as quickly as possible~

If anyone is thinking about applying for an interview or has been offered a position and is still considering it, pay attention to whether you are suited to this kind of system. If your instincts tell you no, set a clear point at which to cut your losses, and do not let workplace psychological manipulation get to you.

Also, the elevators in the building where I was hired are incredibly difficult to catch in the morning~~~

Employee gatherings are very frequent, and snacks and drinks are often available to enjoy. Computer equipment can be upgraded as needed.

More employees leave than new employees join, and they leave faster than new hires arrive. People leave before they have even settled into their positions, making it very clear that something is wrong within the company.

I don’t know why the company never fills vacancies. They are accustomed to treating one person as two, and may even assign you work beyond your professional expertise and field. Here, they consider everything you do to be expected of you and part of your learning. If the work cannot be completed, they start outsourcing it—those amounts would be more than enough to hire several additional employees.

The work procedures are a complete mess. There are no standard processes, files are shared via LINE, and not every department has a shared drive; there is only cloud storage.

For the most part, this is a place where whatever managers say goes. They often make everyone do work for nothing and even frequently claim that tasks are urgent to pressure employees.

Having people with no expertise lead experts is a common problem here. Externally, the company presents itself as perfect, but in reality, this is the result of internal employees exhausting their talents and time and working desperately. They are not very good at helping you grow; most of the time, you have to figure things out yourself.

Overall, it is quite disappointing. I initially thought that coming here to work could change something, but in the end I realized that I am not a superhero. This place does not need employees with only two hands—they need octopuses who can do everything and are proficient at everything.

The office is magnificent, and you gain a better understanding of why Taiwan will not make progress.

Regardless of whether you are old or young, male or female, or of another gender, working here is not recommended. No matter the salary, workplace communication alone is very problematic. It is difficult to see people working together to handle a matter satisfactorily, and there is also some gender discrimination favoring men. Moreover, as many others have said, there is absolutely no future here.

The bureaucracy has been entrenched for many years. If a company has a high turnover rate, that indicates it has problems. When companies appear on Tianyancha, everyone should think carefully before proceeding. If the company were not particularly bad, no one would want to come here to warn others—there is absolutely nothing in it for them.

Leaving work on time

When a supervisor gets promoted, they often treat everyone to drinks

The project planning and overall supervisor only talks without taking action, and just dumps all the work on you. Salaries for overseas assignments do not increase much, and it is difficult to get a raise. You have a higher chance of promotion only after returning to headquarters. The quality of an overseas-assignment unit depends heavily on luck. In my personal case, there is intense workplace infighting in my unit, many people have resigned, and turnover is very high. Government agencies also have a top-down hierarchy, and they tend to make things difficult for the project planning and overall management team over policies instead of working together to figure out how to improve the project.

Good colleagues help each other; the bad ones, well...

You can learn how to communicate with government agencies and get to know some fairly decent officials, external scholars, and people from industry.

The department responsible for the regulatory adaptation plan isn’t exactly law-abiding. Just looking at labor-management issues, they require you to respond on LINE on weekends, and although the official end of the workday is 5:30 p.m., you’ll usually be kept late. The salary is in the low 30,000s, but when I checked, the insured salary amount was NT$42,000. Of course, they have a set of talking points to explain it, haha.

Based on the departments I’ve worked in, the quality of senior management is mediocre. There aren’t many truly capable people; most are long-serving old-timers who rely on junior employees or external experts to produce content. Overall, it’s not very professional.

There really aren't any.

1. Reassigning duties without asking you first

I interviewed for Job A, and we had already agreed on the salary and start date. But on my very first day at work, the director told me to do Job B instead, saying that I had relevant experience and could fill in for now, and that they would let me return to Job A after they interviewed someone for Job B.

However, they kept interviewing people for Job A, and no one was brought in for Job B. After sticking it out for a month, I felt that this was basically a scam. When I raised it with the team leader, the director started emotionally blackmailing me in all sorts of ways, saying that he had put a lot of effort into personally training me and that I apparently didn't know what I should be learning. I applied for Job A during the interview—I never intended to do Job B. Why would I want to learn how to do Job B just because you taught me?

It wasn't until I made up my mind to resign that the director transferred me back to Job A, but by then it was too late.

2. Favoring men over women

A male coworker in the same unit, doing the same job, with the same educational and professional background as me, was paid a full NT$10,000 more than I was. After discovering this, I talked to the director because I wanted to know what the problem was. Was my work performance poor? The director said that my performance was worth 70 points, while everyone else's was barely 60. I asked, then why is my salary so low? The director said that the coworker was a man and married, and had a family to support. Okay, I was genuinely speechless and decided to resign.

3. Using your qualifications to claim a high personnel budget while paying you very little

A week before resigning, I discovered while organizing documents that the project had claimed a monthly personnel expense of NT$43,000 using my name, while my salary was only NT$31,000. Hmm, very fair. Fortunately, I decisively quit.

4. The bad habit of stubbornly refusing to leave work

Everyone stubbornly stayed late and didn't claim overtime pay. They all waited until the director left before leaving themselves. When the director was about to leave, he would still hypocritically tell everyone to go home early. But once, when I left as soon as my workday ended, the director stopped me and said, “You’re leaving without saying goodbye to everyone?”

5. 24-hour LINE group bombardment

At 11 p.m., they would @ you and demand that you answer the supervisor’s questions; at 7 a.m. on weekdays, they would @ you to ask whether you had finished setting up the projector. If you didn't reply while commuting, you would be bombarded with relentless @ mentions. At one meeting, the director even said directly, “If you feel that you don’t want to work or check LINE on weekends, then this job isn’t suitable for you.”

6. Really liking to pry into your private life

They were always asking you to attend weekend gatherings and bring your boyfriend, saying that if you didn't have a boyfriend, you should come anyway to “meet people.” If you said your boyfriend was abroad, they would still ask you to show everyone photos. If you said you weren't comfortable, they would pretend to be concerned and ask, “Why isn't it convenient?” Finally, I pulled out the ultimate retort and said that my boyfriend was married and I was his mistress, so that was why it was inconvenient—and only then did they shut up. (In fact, I didn't have a boyfriend, but what business is it of theirs whether I have one or not?)

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1. Right at the beginning of the interview, they told me bluntly, “Let me be clear upfront: don’t expect work and non-work hours to be separate. We’ll keep updating you on the situation after work.” In other words, you’re required to remain on standby via messaging apps after work, with no overtime pay.

2. The salary is very low. After hearing your salary expectations, they repeatedly come up with reasons and excuses to cut your salary.

3. They ask extremely detailed questions about your résumé, including where you live and whether it’s on a main street or in an alley—as if conducting a background investigation. Their intrusive attitude is arrogant and makes people uncomfortable.

4. They do indeed ask about your zodiac sign and hold prejudices based on zodiac signs.

5. During the interview, the supervisor browsed LINE on their phone while interviewing me, which was very disrespectful to the interviewee.

6. From the job description, you assume that every position is permanent. Only at the very end, when you ask, do they tell you, “This position is a contract role.” It’s absolutely bewildering.

A company that shows no respect for people from beginning to end. I strongly do not recommend it.

The job involves handling government tenders, with personnel costs of only 30K.

You only become a formal employee after three years. During the interview, the department manager first asks you to introduce yourself,

then asks you to present and share your work. Here’s the key point! They will arbitrarily select and take the work samples you brought from in front of you without permission.

It’s not very polite behavior, and their expression throughout the entire process is not very pleasant. Those considering going may want to take this into account.