巨鎧實業股份有限公司

The initial period was fine.

1. Environment

Whether it is the office, warehouse, or work area, everything is covered in dust, with unfinished products and cardboard boxes piled up. Unfinished products from suppliers we no longer work with are all left inside the factory, waiting until the slow season for quality assurance to find time to conduct a full inspection to see whether they can still be used. After the inspection, usable items are simply left piled up with no next step, while unusable items are all returned to the suppliers (some items have been sitting there for so long that no one even knows whether the suppliers ultimately collected them). The office is mostly filled with personal belongings from the owner's family, piled in the corner of a desk. The fact that nothing collapsed during an earthquake shows how solid the foundation is. Also, if you place unfinished products or materials without following the warehouse staff's preferred placement or storage procedures, you will be scolded. If you put something in the wrong place, you will be immediately berated the first time, with questions like, "Why did you put it here?"

2. Personnel

The production process staff are generally fine, although there is some internal infighting (the foreign workers are fine; they are just a little cheeky). The indirect staff (office workers) basically spend their workdays only answering the phone and listening to the owner demand this or that. Except when the owner's wife is there and people chat a little, the office is otherwise so quiet it feels like mechanical work. There is a somewhat selfish atmosphere when it comes to cooperation (I did not really experience much cooperation). Even when someone assigned work to me, if the owner asked that person about it, they would simply answer that they did not know. There is no inclination to help one another; people just want to avoid being scolded as much as possible.

3. The owner

The owner's temper is really strange. When he is in a good mood, everything is fine, but when he is in a bad mood, he will drag your entire family and ancestors into his insults. He uses extremely offensive language when scolding people. Unfortunately, I did not record it, otherwise I could have collected another payout.

Also, if you explain something he does not want to hear, he will respond with things like, "I don't understand," "I don't want to listen," or "You're strange," repeatedly saying things such as "I don't understand," and may even belittle you.

5. Benefits

A welfare fee is collected every month, but the amount returned to employees from it is probably only a few hundred dollars. There are fewer than ten employees and owners combined, so why is a welfare fee still being collected?

The perfect-attendance bonus is fairly high, but as soon as you take leave, you lose NT$1,000.

6. Other

When requesting leave, you have to wait until after 8:00 before anyone answers the phone. New employees arrive early, while some people are late because they are long-time employees and the owner does not say anything. Even if you arrive early, you cannot leave at the end of the day if you have not finished the work in your hands, and there is no overtime pay unless you work more than one hour, among other things.

If you are going to interview at this company, be mentally prepared to completely comply with whatever the owner wants and do, and make sure to ask for clarification. You also need to be prepared for being sarcastically criticized for trying to help someone out of goodwill—for example, being asked why you are helping others when you cannot even take care of your own work. You will also need the superpower to predict what the owner wants done; otherwise, you may be berated until you lose your sense of self and feel like you would rather die.

The assembly staff take good care of newcomers.

There is a lot of infighting. A tall, heavyset man said in front of the section manager that I could ask him anything and he would teach me, but when I had questions, he pretended not to hear me. He also falsely accused me of taking defective lamp housings. The problem was that I was called in by the section manager to learn with them only 10 minutes after they had started, and all the materials were already there by then.

The next day, I prepared cardboard boxes. (A company without a person responsible for preparing or tracking materials; they spent half an hour looking, but no one could find them.) After taking the items, I was told to organize them before pulling them away. While organizing, I blocked his path, so he asked me whether I was finished. When I said yes, he told me to move away. Apparently, there was no need to organize anything.

An older woman in packaging had a bad attitude. She told me to take my time teaching someone, then half an hour later said I was too slow and told me to go tape cardboard boxes on the side. Near the end of the workday, an assembly worker told me to first organize the unwanted cardboard boxes, otherwise they would have to use work time after the shift. When I was about to go out to organize them, the packaging woman asked what I was going to do and said the boxes could be dealt with after work. When I went back, the assembly woman asked why I had not gone to organize them. After I told her what had happened, I was the only one dragging the boxes after work. The assembly woman asked why no one was helping and how long it would take one person to finish. Only then did one or two people come over to help.

There was also a very thin middle-aged man who was unfriendly toward newcomers. When ordering drinks or lunch boxes, he would place the order without checking whether the newcomers wanted anything. The break area was a filthy, cluttered conveyor-belt area, and certain people had permanently assigned seats. Once, someone forgot to turn off the fan in the break area. The next day, all the fans in the break area were removed, so no one could use them.

On my last morning, I went straight to the section manager to resign. The manager even asked when I wanted to leave. I replied that I would leave immediately because I was going to look for another job and did not want to waste time. (My experience after working there for five days.)

The assembly staff are very considerate toward newcomers.

There is a lot of infighting. A tall, heavyset man told me in front of the section manager that I could ask him anything and he would teach me, but when I had questions, he pretended not to hear me. He also falsely accused me of taking defective lamp housings. The problem was that I was called in by the section manager to learn together only 10 minutes after they had started working, and the materials were already there by then. The next day, I prepared the cartons. (At a company with no staff responsible for preparing or tracking materials, no one could find them even after looking for half an hour.) After taking the items, I was supposed to organize them properly before moving them away. While I was organizing them, I blocked his path, so he asked whether I was done. When I said yes, he told me to move aside—is organizing apparently unnecessary? One of the older women in packaging had a bad attitude. She told me to take my time, but half an hour later said I was too slow and told me to go stick cartons together elsewhere. Near the end of the shift, an assembly worker told me to organize the discarded cartons first, otherwise they would have to use work time to do it later. When I was about to go out to organize them, the older woman from packaging asked what I was going to do and said to deal with those cartons after work. After I returned, the assembly worker asked why I had not gone to organize them. I told her what had happened. After work, I was the only one dragging the cartons. The assembly worker asked why no one was helping and how long it would take one person to finish. Only then did one or two people come over to help. There was also a very thin middle-aged man who was unfriendly to newcomers. When ordering drinks or boxed meals, he would place the order without checking whether the newcomers wanted anything. The break area was a dirty, disorderly conveyor-belt area, and certain people had assigned seats. One time, someone forgot to turn off the fan in the break area, so the next day all the fans there were removed and no one could use them anymore. On my last morning, I went in and immediately resigned. The section manager even asked when I wanted to leave. I replied that I was leaving immediately because I wanted to find another job and did not want to waste time. (My experience after working there for five days.)

The boss has a very bad temper

and treats engineers and administrative staff the same way.