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Read the community guidelines1. All the colleagues except the general manager (= the boss) are easy to get along with and take good care of new employees.
2. Labor and health insurance are provided.
3. A daily lunch subsidy of NT$20.
4. It lets you experience what it feels like to be a sheep being skinned layer after layer (dead eyes).
That’s about it...
1.
Being 1 minute late for work results in a deduction from your pay, but the half hour of overtime worked by administrative staff from 5:30 to 6:00 is not counted as overtime and is unpaid.
2.
Working hours are 08:00–17:30, with lunch from 12:00–13:00 (for administrative staff). That means 8.5 working hours per day, effectively forcing employees to work an extra half hour every day.
3.
There is training every Tuesday. If you stay for the class, you receive a training allowance, but if you do not attend, your year-end bonus will be deducted.
There is a management meeting every Wednesday that usually lasts until around 18:30, and no overtime pay is provided! When asked about it, the boss even says that it has already been replaced with gifts given during the three major festivals.
There is a team meeting every Thursday, which usually delays leaving work by about 20 minutes. Again, there is no overtime pay, and those who do not attend also have their year-end bonus deducted.
4.
The “base salary” discussed by the boss during the interview = regular salary (8 hours’ pay) + overtime allowance (half an hour of overtime pay)! So remember to add half an hour of overtime pay to your desired salary before negotiating with him during the interview; otherwise, if you raise the issue afterward, he will not agree to adjust it.
5.
The boss promises customers impossible delivery dates, causing employees whose positions require them to answer customer calls (production control, administrative assistants, and secretaries) to frequently be inexplicably berated by customers.
6.
The factory environment is harsh: raw materials are piled along the edges of the escape routes, making the paths narrower. It is noisy, there are many cockroaches, and it is hot.