遊山茶訪茶業股份有限公司

1. Nothing but drinking tea (even if you are given the most expensive tea, you will not have the time or inclination to properly savor it)

2. Working hours are from 09:00 to 18:00 (but you have to arrive half an hour early; barring unforeseen circumstances, you can leave at 18:20)

3. A quiet environment with no random outsiders around (conversely, the number of visitors each day is limited, so there is a reason the interior is clean and tidy)

1. The benefits system does not match what is advertised on the job bank

Before starting, you have to prepare money for a set of work clothes and other accessories. Once you have a uniform, you must pay the cleaning costs yourself, and you also have to pay for your own health examination.

Employee trips (never heard of them) / Year-end bonus (performance-based, 1.5‰) / Training subsidies (language courses are entirely self-funded) / Year-end or spring banquets (only a NT$300 red-envelope bonus when operations resume) / Employee dinners (never encountered one). As for the other benefits, just look at them and don't take them too seriously.

2. The performance-based system is not worth caring about; working a few extra hours at another job during your days off earns more

As for performance targets, new employees are assigned a target of NT$120,000, with a 1% bonus (there are other deductions afterward, so the performance bonus is basically nothing to get excited about).

3. The emphasis on cutting costs is too heavy, limiting development

Overall, the company cannot generate new revenue and can only focus on cutting expenses. Even the use of toilet paper has to be recorded. Simply put, they cannot make money from outside, so they can only save money internally.

4. Unwilling to spend time cultivating talent; they only want geniuses to show up

When teaching, they just want to take shortcuts. You have to listen to a long series of procedures and systems all at once without interrupting to ask questions; you can only ask after everything has been explained. When asking questions, you had better phrase them tactfully, or you will be told that you were not paying attention. You also cannot get a single word of what was explained wrong; ideally, you should be able to draw inferences and apply what you learned. In other words, you are expected to know things you were never taught, and then immediately go into action.

5. In a family business, don't expect to have a chance to get ahead

As the wording suggests, it is supposedly a company that has made it to the fifth generation. Given how difficult the business is being run, how could there possibly be a position for you to climb into?

6. Stubborn and unwilling to listen to suggestions; they only want to hear pleasant words, so you had better act like a mute once you join

Meetings are never scheduled consistently. When there is a problem, raising it or not raising it is a dilemma: if you raise it, they say you are careless; if you do not, they ask how they can teach you when you do not bring up problems.

7. Every day, the person you most need to carefully deal with and please is not the customer, but someone inside the company

This is a problem every company has. Whenever something goes wrong, it is always blamed on the people below; when an incident occurs, they just see who is unlucky enough to be made the scapegoat.

8. Rules change from day to day, and you are always guessing their intentions and reading their expressions to get things done

They always like to make simple matters complicated. The standard they state today will be different from the one they apply tomorrow, but you are not allowed to be “different.”

9. If you successfully pass the interview, you will sign a contract that allows them to dismiss you at any time

It is essentially an edict allowing them to abandon you whenever they are unhappy. If a company only puts thought into this kind of thing, does it have any energy left to think about developing the business?

10. The opportunity to be assigned overseas to develop new markets and grow: a pipe dream

Basically, that opportunity is available only to family members or well-connected senior executives. If they run things in Taiwan like this, how can they even think about overseas expansion?

Overall impression:

There are countless meaningless rules. They want to go into battle but refuse to train properly, only waiting for a genius who needs no instruction to come and conquer the world. They are always training talent for other companies (competitors). What combat strength can the company possibly have? Even if a genius really did come along, they would see through everything immediately, and the company still would not be able to retain them. Despite having been established for so many years, the average employee tenure is only two years; even employees with two years of tenure earn less than NT$30,000. In addition, the location is tucked away in a residential area, so the number of visitors each day can be counted on one hand, yet they still unrealistically expect to achieve substantial sales. How can they talk about expanding outward without resolving internal problems? They can tell you to leave whenever they are unhappy. Anyone considering joining should think it over carefully; it may be fine to join briefly just to experience it, but there is no positive outlook for the company's overall future development.

Unlimited tea

Free tea

All-you-can-drink tea

The visitor factory is very clean, and the employees’ restroom and the overall environment are also very clean.

1. Self-managed cleaning (employees are assigned cleaning areas during work hours)

2. The employee dormitory is not cleaned by anyone; everything is self-managed… Anyone who is even slightly particular about cleanliness should definitely take a look before deciding.

3. Typical traditional manufacturing corporate culture (one person may be assigned multiple roles). Team cohesion is highly valued, and it is often said that all departments should help one another…

4. Those who are too principled or place too much emphasis on management and division of labor should not apply.

5. The job is highly flexible, and personnel seem to be frequently reassigned to different areas to provide mutual support.