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Work starts at 8:00 a.m., with a 1.5-hour lunch break, and flexible departure between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. Overtime must be approved by a supervisor before it can be claimed, rather than being provided in accordance with the Labor Standards Act. In other words, it depends on the supervisor’s mood (including overtime pay for going off-site to work on events, which is also granted at the supervisor’s discretion). Overtime is calculated at 1.33 and 1.66 times the regular rate, but it is not actually paid in full.
No comment on the work itself. Costs incurred from redoing work are the employee’s responsibility (for example, mistakes in outsourcing). The supervisor also gossips about colleague B behind colleague A’s back, and about colleague A behind colleague B’s back. The supervisor likes to talk about productivity, but in reality, the standard for productivity is simply leaving later than the supervisor. If you leave earlier, you will be verbally bullied or deliberately made things difficult for you at every turn.
The company’s future prospects feel completely restricted. Apart from the company focusing on the main lantern, most other event projects essentially involve taking old files or previously proposed designs, modifying them again, and submitting them. The main lantern is traditional and devoid of new ideas year after year. Many of the things produced cannot be recycled or reused at all, and are even kept in storage at the event site.
The company also reduces salaries and deducts pay. Labor and health insurance are a complete mess, with high salaries being underreported, annual leave being granted incorrectly, and overtime not being paid in full. This company is completely violating the Labor Standards Act. (An online search has confirmed that the company has violated the Labor Standards Act.)
During the interview, the boss paints a wonderful picture for you, making you buy into everything about the company.
After joining, the only time you leave work on time is on your first day. All other times, you work overtime without overtime pay.
The actual work content often has to be carried out based on a whim of the boss. For example, cleaning the environment often wastes employees’ regular working hours. Even if the work cannot be finished, you still have to complete it before leaving work, also without overtime pay.
The supervisors scheme against each other and are extremely manipulative!
Whenever a newcomer joins, the boss always says: “You’re very suitable for project work.”
But you’ll never actually get to work on projects.
They give you a pile of hopes and dreams, making it seem like there’s a bright future ahead, without you realizing that you’ve already stepped into the beginning of hell.
There is no clocking in or out. When asked, the boss is evasive and changes the subject. The overtime pay is +0.33, which is completely illegal, yet they constantly talk about the Labor Standards Act. From the past until now, only one employee has stayed for more than three years; the employee turnover rate is extremely high.
Employees are required to fulfill the company’s demands through illegal means. Employees’ personal backgrounds are shared with other employees for them to ridicule, and there are also constant personal attacks (on people’s bodies and faces). In short, it is an utter failure.
The company of your dreams, the beginning of shattered dreams
The company lacks a proper system, and the job responsibilities discussed during the interview were vague. Under the responsibility-based work-hour system, overtime is determined by the boss, and overtime pay does not comply with labor laws. Employees are required to fulfill the company's demands through unlawful means (for example, safety and security training is not properly implemented; public safety has not been evaluated by a government agency; injuries from high-risk work cannot be reported under labor insurance, etc.).
The boss is pretty good at painting a rosy picture.
There are an enormous number of areas that need improvement. This is a family business, and there are often many disagreements within the family when it comes to decision-making, leading to constant disputes. It is difficult for frontline employees to get things done. There is no clocking in or out, making it difficult to enforce the Labor Standards Act. In short, a failure.