拜達生化科技股份有限公司

The only advantages are at the beginning: you can receive your salary in advance, and he is willing to discuss things with employees (but the boss makes the final decision). He is a Monkey, a Leo, and an ESTJ according to the MBTI. A smart, justice-minded older man. If you like a sense of being commanded and an alpha-male (macho) atmosphere, welcome to this company. He likes smart, orderly people—preferably obedient, not lazy, and also capable of graphic design. However, what he currently needs most is marketing staff.

I only stayed at this company for six months. I built the e-commerce department from scratch. I not only designed the HUSHOP website, but also designed another company website (biogreen). Almost 80% of all the photos and designed materials you see were created by me.

At first, my experience was very enjoyable because I felt that what I could offer was English and graphic design. No other company would initially offer a salary higher than 32,000. However, I ultimately chose to leave.

At the beginning, there were three people in the e-commerce department. One left in the first month (this is the other post on this website), another worked for three months, and I worked for six months. I can tell you that in the end, everyone—including the two operations staff members, who were long-term employees—submitted their resignations. However, one person is still working there now.

1. The boss does not like people who are overly forceful or particular, because he is a control freak. The reason he has been able to run this business alone for so long is that everything has remained within his control.

2. The boss does not like lazy people. He will know whether you do more or less, because after the two people resigned, he required everyone to report what they had done that day before leaving work. He will know if you are frequently late or sleep at work. If he discovers that you know how to do marketing but did not bring it up until you were about to be fired, he will be extremely angry, fire you anyway, and use your marketing ideas.

3. There are many illegal matters. During the six months I stayed at this company, the boss did not apply for my work permit during the first four months. I could not open a bank account, so everything was done in cash. For foreign nationals, opening a bank account, paying taxes, and labor and health insurance are very important. He delayed applying for my work permit for four months, leaving me confused until my residence permit was about to expire in the final month. During the last week, I had to seek help from the National Immigration Agency and the Ministry of Labor, and the residence permit was not officially completed until three days before it expired. It was extremely frightening. He could even say, “Why are you in such a hurry? Would I hurt you?” That made me laugh. Because of this, I nearly got deported.

4. After I officially started working, was I enrolled in labor and health insurance? No. I had worked at the company for two full months, yet I had neither labor nor health insurance, and no taxes were paid. Before resigning, I discussed this with the only operations staff member and discovered that she—a Taiwanese employee—had worked there for two years without being insured. I was completely stunned and felt that I had to leave quickly. She also said that if the company made money, the year-end bonus would be paid on time, but if it did not make money that year, payment would be delayed until April.

5. Regarding the e-commerce department, they say that once sales reach 100,000, 10% will be taken and distributed. Just take it as something to listen to, because after working for six months, my total sales amounted to only 50,000. At the time, I wondered whether I should wait for the year-end bonus, but ultimately decided not to.

6. My biggest problem with the boss was not that I was too forceful or lazy. I handled graphic design and document translation, and eventually also Shopee, official website orders, and Facebook marketing. I simply wanted to help the company, but the company did not think it needed such refined and attractive designs. Instead, he gave the work to another graphic designer who had already left, paying 500 per image. At the time, I angrily said, “Then you should just ask her to come to work.” After that graphic designer left, I handled everything. Did I get a raise? No. However, because everything was easy for me, it became taken for granted. The images also had to be produced quickly, and if that was not possible, it was considered my problem. If you fire a graphic designer because you want things done quickly and cheaply, then I’m sorry, but I can’t do that.

7. The pressure of graphic design/e-commerce work is not great. The only pressure is that the boss speaks very directly and is sometimes loud and unpleasant. One reason one of the remaining operations staff members resigned was that the boss’s way of speaking was genuinely offensive. I am a Taurus and also very stubborn, so things were fine at first; I considered it part of getting along with him. However, if I were the only person in the e-commerce department, I would have been miserable. I would rather have a busy job than a boss who constantly lectures me.

8. The boss does not speak English, so files have to be renamed in Chinese when they are managed. I was not used to this at first, since I named my folders in English to work faster. He hired me because I knew English, but when I gave him files in English, he said, “You’re in Taiwan, so you need to follow Taiwanese culture.” I found that somewhat amusing.

9. Doing graphic design is difficult: if you do not give your opinion, he thinks you have no ideas; if you express an opinion and take action, he does not want to move that far forward. It has to be Taiwanese-style, but not too ugly.

10. He is always right. He is a Wang by surname and an ESTJ, and thinks of himself as an emperor managing the people under him. If you are not the type to simply listen and let things go, working there will be very painful. Try not to mention having a side business, running a Shopee store, or any life outside of work. It is best not to let him know about your romantic partner, because he judges what kind of person you are through all sorts of details about your life (zodiac animal, star sign, blood type, work experience, and salary expectations). Even if you ask for a graphic design salary of over 20,000, he will think you lack confidence.

To share what happened at the end: another person and I decided to resign at the same time, so he asked the two of us to talk that day. After my coworker went in, she said that because her leg was injured, she wanted to switch to a job that was not operations work. The boss then raised her salary by 4,000 and assigned her as an administrative and inventory management employee, moving her to the e-commerce department.

When I went in, instead of offering me a raise, he said several unpleasant things: “Do you know that many companies won’t dare hire you once they hear that you need a work permit?” “A graphic designer’s career is very short-lived.” “There are no large companies in the Shulin Industrial Park.” I asked him not to scare me because I only needed to rest. I was genuinely stunned at the time. Nevertheless, he gave me three weeks of leave to work from home at half pay. (For me, half pay meant working only four hours, but he expected me to finish detailed, one-night product images for five products, which was impossible.) After the leave, both sides decided that I would resign. He also said, “Don’t sacrifice other things for the sake of certain things”—meaning, don’t get married just to stay in Taiwan. … I feel that this is not something you need to decide for me.

By this point, I felt I had a fairly good understanding of what kind of person he was. It was a valuable experience. Most of the job was essentially about dealing with the boss. I hope you can think it through carefully.

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The location is in a remote area of Shulin. This is an experience-sharing account from a former employee. It is lengthy, so read it in full before deciding whether to interview and work there. This is very important—I sincerely mean it.

Baida Biochemical Technology Co., Ltd., also known as Huiyu Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Both have the same person in charge—the same owner. They are the same company!

1. The e-commerce department was established less than a month ago and has no structure at all, meaning you would be starting from scratch. The work differs from previous e-commerce positions I have held, as this company focuses mainly on its official website. The owner is not interested in other platforms and considers them to have little benefit. Work responsibilities are unclear, and the operating model is not really e-commerce-oriented. You apply for e-commerce operations, yet they also expect you to know graphic design, even though there are already two graphic designers!

2. They only ever say that the company has been operating for 22 years, but the company has no systems whatsoever, no work SOPs, no HR department, and no formal supervisors. The entire company has only two operators, the longest-serving of whom has worked there for just over two years. The e-commerce department has three people, including me, and all of us were new hires who started in March at the same time. Everything is decided by the owner. The training is militarized: one order, one action. Everything has to meet his expectations, and you have to listen to him. There is little room to perform, leaving you tied hand and foot. If he is unhappy, he tells you to leave. Who knows how many previous new hires were driven away!

By the way, the e-commerce supervisor is a foreign national who also started in March at the same time as us. She only knows graphic design, yet the owner promoted her to supervisor. The logic is extremely puzzling.

3. There are meetings every day—possibly two or three times a day, not necessarily! At 8:30 a.m., as soon as work starts, there is immediately a meeting. The meetings do not focus on key points; they consist mostly of chatting and pointless talk, listening to him recount his past achievements and how capable and powerful he is, as well as his ideas. He is also extremely arrogant and self-important, teaching everyone as though they were students. Meetings always delay the day's work progress. If you respond during a meeting, you may sometimes be scolded. Everything is decided by him, leaving everyone… When the owner asks for opinions, hardly anyone dares to speak. He even says not to be afraid of being scolded and to speak freely, but his way of speaking is always intended to overpower you or comes across as very sarcastic.

4. The owner often loses his temper, scolds, and lectures people, and has poor emotional control. If you have a strong heart and high stress tolerance, you can take on the challenge. He scolds people over small matters, and sometimes you are inexplicably lectured. Even when chatting with the owner, you may see employees being scolded for no reason. It is difficult to know how to handle him. During meetings, the owner also makes personal attacks in front of everyone, behaves aggressively, and uses insulting language, treating employees like slaves. Every employee has been scolded, including newcomers who have just arrived. He is not even courteous when berating vendors or PMs from e-commerce platforms. He has offended quite a few people because he considers many things beneath him or believes that, as a manufacturer, he is the most capable.

5. He loves comparing employees' work abilities in front of everyone. Even capable people are described as incompetent and criticized. He also loves talking about former employees who resigned, criticizing and nagging about them. He is highly prone to favoritism, and the owner's logic for judging people is extremely peculiar.

6. The owner does not want to spend more money hiring people. NT$30,000 or less is the salary threshold. People with ability and experience may have their salaries unreasonably cut. The salary figures posted on recruitment platforms should be taken with a grain of salt—they are fake, because he does not want to pay more. They are just window dressing; he only wants to pay low wages to have people work for him. The salary offered during the interview may be mutually agreed upon, but afterward he may change his mind and look for a pretext to make you leave or reduce your salary. The reasons given are often utterly absurd, with many unreasonable demands. Once he has used you, he lets you go and simply hires someone new.

This same approach has probably driven many people away. Turnover is extremely high, and it is impossible to know how many people resigned within a very short time—possibly after only one or two days. But according to the owner, they all left for career planning reasons or other excuses he uses to save face. Many people also cannot communicate with him. His personality is basically unacceptable to anyone, and it is extremely difficult to get along with him—unless you enjoy being mistreated.

7. On my first day of work, I was not enrolled in labor and health insurance, employment insurance, or the 6% labor pension contribution. Even after working for a month, I still was not insured, because he wanted to save money. This is already illegal. He drives people to resign and then does not pay severance, so he does not need to insure them. This has apparently been his method for years, assuming no one would report him and exploiting loopholes in the law. Even long-term employees are not insured, and no alternative subsidy is provided, meaning employees must insure themselves through an occupational union. He is a typical exploitative, old-fashioned boss.

8. Every day after work, you smell of cigarette smoke from head to toe because the owner smokes inside the office. Even when the door is closed, the entire open office area smells of smoke. Just one meeting a day can expose you to the smell of two or three cigarettes at close range, if not more. Sometimes the space where he talks with vendors is filled with thick smoke. He does not care about employees' health. Employees cannot tolerate the smell but have to silently endure it. Saying something is useless; you continue to inhale secondhand smoke.

9. When discussing matters or holding meetings, the owner may sometimes speak very quickly. If you cannot take notes quickly enough or want to confirm something again, he will scold you, claiming that he has already said it a second or third time, even though he in fact said it only once. Sometimes he insists that he said something he clearly never said, accusing you of not listening carefully. Everything is decided by him. In short, you are constantly on edge at work.

10. Even files and data on employees' computer desktops cannot be left anywhere; they must be organized, because he says he will inspect them. He also controls how files sent to him are named. He even wants to control what employees do after work. Is this workplace being treated like a school? It is ridiculous.

11. There are no benefits of any kind, and there is no overtime pay because it is a responsibility-based system. In the future, they may start livestreaming until very late. There do not appear to be bonuses for the three major holidays or year-end bonuses. However, he said that if the e-commerce business takes off, performance commissions may be available: only after sales exceed one million can you receive 5% (take that with a grain of salt).

12. The salary is calculated arbitrarily. They deliberately include a NT$2,000 perfect-attendance allowance in the agreed monthly salary under some pretext, despite not mentioning this during the interview. They like to play number games and exploit legal loopholes! They are extremely stingy. When transferring your salary, they will also deduct a NT$15 handling fee from your account! This was the first time I had ever encountered that.

After reading all of the above, if you still want to join, all I can say is: fend for yourself. This is an irregular small company with no systems, run by an exploitative, old-fashioned boss who exploits many loopholes. The employees get along reasonably well, but it is only after joining and working there for a very short time that you discover so many dark sides and the boss's exploitative practices, which will leave you shaking your head. Although the owner is technically the most powerful person, here you have to treat him like a king. Employees have very little dignity, making working here mentally and physically unpleasant. Capable people are not valued here and are instead trampled on. It is a complete waste of time, with no development or future at all. Why bother? For this salary, any other company would be 100 times better. Do not abuse yourself. This experience truly opened my eyes and left a deep impression. There are no advantages whatsoever, only a pile of drawbacks. Do not expect a company that lacks generosity to offer much of a future.