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Read the community guidelines1. No overtime
2. Lunch breaks are taken on time
3. Meals provided
4. Gifts for the three major festivals (fruit, gift boxes)
5. Start-of-year work bonus
6. Snacks, coffee, and tea provided
7. Toilet paper provided
8. Performance bonuses
9. Business trip allowances
Family-owned business (factory relocated to mainland China) — the boss’s wife is in Taiwan
The office is located in an open-plan space on the second floor below the boss’s home.
Family members, relatives, and classmates frequently come and go.
Salary system
1. Paid in cash
2. Labor insurance reported at the minimum insured salary
3. Year-end bonus system is unclear
4. Taking leave results in a full-day salary deduction; there is no distinction between personal, sick, and menstrual leave
(excluding annual leave)
5. No overtime pay
Management system
1. Policies change constantly and without notice
2. No leave-request process
Employees may be forced to use annual leave; if they have none, unpaid leave is imposed
3. No standardized procedures or forms
4. No opportunities for promotion
Office culture and atmosphere
1. The boss’s wife has a strong desire for control
- She pries into employees’ private lives
- You can only chat with her; interaction with other colleagues should be avoided whenever possible
(She gets angry when she sees employees chatting, for unknown reasons)
- She must be kept informed of the content of conversations with clients at all times
- Employees are not given the passwords for company-provided email accounts or communication software
2. No privacy at your desk (when you are on leave, colleagues and the boss’s wife may use your computer, documents, and desk; they may use your account or email to reply to messages and emails)
Office hardware and software
1. No Wi-Fi
2. No shared company hard drive for data access
3. No systems for managing orders, quotations, inventory, costs, packaging data, etc.
4. No central backup hard drive
(According to the boss’s wife, sending data to other colleagues to save is considered a backup)
5. No rules for turning on the air conditioning; the boss’s wife decides
(Once, it was turned on at noon and turned off at 2 p.m.)
Business trips
1. No business cards provided
2. Transportation subsidies are provided only if requested
- If an EasyCard is applicable, there is no reimbursement for using it yourself
3. No phone cards, data cards, or SIM cards provided
Other
1. This very small company operates as a one-stop shop. Apart from not needing to handle product manufacturing, you may be required to handle all kinds of miscellaneous tasks
(the more capable you are, the more work you get, without compensation)
You are required to take on the roles of sales, sales assistant, designer, shipping coordinator, network administrator, and general office assistant.
2. Religious rituals are held in the office.
That’s all. Good luck.