加拿大商萊弗貝股份有限公司

Foreign company

For those who want to work for a foreign bicycle company in Taichung, I strongly do “not” recommend this fake foreign company.

The female boss has an extremely strong need for control, so I do not recommend that people with industry experience come here.

If you just want to pad your résumé, be sure to set a stop-loss point for yourself. You will not learn anything here; you can only follow her and learn her way of doing things.

She will not trust anything you do unless you follow her “instructions” step by step and report on the hour.

So this place does not need people who can think—only robots that receive instructions and report at fixed times and places.

At heart, she is actually someone whose professional abilities are highly questionable and whose self-confidence is low, so she can only fill her life with extremely long working hours.

The company claims the workday is eight hours, but six or seven of those hours may be spent in meetings. If you cannot finish your work, you are expected to work overtime on your own,

and then be told that your time management is a problem and that you need to improve your self-management.

Working hours may involve meetings with overseas offices at six or seven in the morning, followed by working continuously until six or seven in the evening, so be mentally prepared.

This is because, as a foreign company, the workplace operates under a responsibility-based system: there is no overtime pay and no compensatory leave.

They do not respect your time after work or during your days off. Be prepared to be on call at all times to accommodate the female boss’s schedule; there is a work LINE group.

The male boss is a self-important Martian who has perfected the art of bluffing and flattery.

That is why the foreigners adore him. When dealing with subordinates who do not suit his wishes, he uses every underhanded tactic to pressure you into leaving.

Regarding other people’s work, he gives you a full load of opinions and trash talk.

By the way, you do not need to be good at English here, because if you dare to submit a résumé to a foreign company, your English is definitely better than his—but you are not as good as he is at talking nonsense.

As for the salary, if you have worked for other foreign companies in the industry, this place is definitely not your first choice.

The benefits you would expect from a foreign company are all missing here. What you get instead is a culture full of the blood, sweat, and tears of Taiwanese workers—basically, a factory culture.

Oh, and the air conditioning is just for decoration. You have to ask the Taiwanese managers for permission before turning it on.

The work environment is quite good, and aside from the two managers at the top, the colleagues are all nice.

For anyone considering joining, this company has two managers in Taiwan. The male manager likes holding meetings and talking endlessly, bringing up a pile of ideas, but seems unaware that his meetings take up a lot of time that other colleagues need for their work. The female manager's management style is basically like that of a nanny—constantly pressuring people, holding meetings, and requiring reports, without considering how to improve work efficiency. However, the other colleagues are all nice. It is called a foreign company, but its management style is even worse than that of a Taiwanese factory. Those considering joining should take note.