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Read the community guidelinesAfter thinking about it for a long time, I’d say the only advantage is the flexible working hours.
There is a shortage of staff, which often leads to overtime. You also have to work overtime on weekends, and the overtime pay is low.
Breaks and meal times are not fixed; sometimes lunch ends up being eaten as late as dinner.
When stationed at the Taoyuan–Linkou site, the only food options are often convenience stores.
The company requires employees to purchase clothing and bags. There is a subsidy, but it comes with a contract requirement; if you do not stay for more than a year, you have to pay the money back. This is not proactively disclosed.
There is no clock-in system. Working hours are flexible, but this also means there is no way to prove lateness or overtime; everything is recorded by hand.
After joining, I discovered that most of the colleagues around me had been there for less than six months. You can more or less figure out what this company is like…
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I interviewed with this company last year! What left a deep impression on me was when I asked about the salary conditions, the interviewer told me that 38K was a department manager-level salary. I was stunned and laughed to myself! Every company in the same industry that works with TSMC offered me over 40K, and that was for a regular engineer's salary! And you're telling me that the department manager-level salary at your company is 38K? You're really stingy... No wonder the company is so uncompetitive! Hahaha 😂
The biggest trash company in all of Taiwan, without a doubt
High-energy warning ahead [the world of occupational safety; coming here to work as a site supervisor is the wisest choice]
Working as a site supervisor: getting cursed at and criticized by foremen, while occupational safety thinks it's your problem
Working as a site supervisor: because you're a man, you're sent on errands for the warehouse, told to clear the temporary storage area, take out the trash, push steel boxes (steel boxes weighing more than an adult), move gas cylinders (at least 70 kg)....
Everything is assigned to the site supervisor because you're a man. Occupational safety will even taunt you, saying that because she wears a red hat, she can reasonably avoid doing any work inside the plant.
Working as a site supervisor: besides being cursed at and criticized by subcontractor foremen, even when ordering hardware materials from Yuanxin Metal, a company our company works with, you get cursed at and criticized. Who exactly spoiled their appetite? We have to treat the owner (client) with the utmost respect, but Yuanxin can casually curse at and criticize us?
Working as a site supervisor: there are no senior chief site supervisors here to COVER you; only senior occupational-safety staff rule the roost. All the previous site supervisors became exhausted and overstressed and resigned. There isn't a single senior site supervisor who has been here for more than two years. Whenever anything happens—whether 6S is audited, construction quality goes wrong, the foremen lack materials, or an old machine leaks gas and needs to be dealt with—everyone comes to you. Every problem is also your fault. Working as a site supervisor is truly pathetic. (That last comment about being pathetic was actually made by a supervisor during a management meeting. I deeply agree internally, but if I show it too obviously, people will probably talk about me behind my back again, because as a newcomer, I'm not qualified to express an opinion that might hurt others. When a supervisor says it, occupational safety can only nod vigorously and pretend to agree.)
The master-apprentice system is taken far too seriously:
A certain chief site supervisor once said, “In Hsinchu, the subcontractors come to earn Ryan's money; the subcontractors are the ones who should accommodate us.”
But what about Taichung? We are the ones who have to cater to the foremen. You get cursed at and criticized by your master and are ordered around constantly. Occupational safety will even tell you that you're not proactive enough and that's why you can't earn the foreman's trust (black-person-question-mark????)
Isn't it actually because you have known the foreman longer, so you think what we rookie site supervisors say isn't trustworthy???
Why rationalize your own behavior of shielding the subcontractor foremen?
Our company's strengths:
① From the beginning of this year until now, in the Central Taiwan region alone, a total of nine site supervisors and occupational-safety staff have resigned. What does that tell you about where the problem lies?
② At Ryan Pass in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, a management meeting mentioned that more than 60 million worth of machines had not been invoiced, and the owners had not signed QC REPORTS for more than 300 machines. What does that tell you about where the problem lies?
③ The number of machines in the Central Taiwan plants has nearly fallen to zero because almost all the orders have been taken by the other three companies (Hank, Zhijie, and Ruize). What does that tell you about where the problem lies?
④ Everyone has left. There are hardly any men left, only female occupational-safety staff and QC personnel. The men carry all the physically demanding work, yet the company keeps hiring women. What does that tell you about where the problem lies?
⑤ New occupational-safety employee Li Shujun: in the morning, when assigning toolbox tasks, QC—who has a better relationship with you—said she wanted to take materials to the office clerk, and you told me to help her carry them (Are these materials really that heavy?? Don't act like I've never carried this stuff, okay?).
And then I had a bunch of hardware materials to MOVE-IN into the cleanroom. I told you someone needed to work with me, and you f***ing told me to go find someone myself?
What amazing task-assignment skills. If I hadn't written this down, would the senior occupational-safety person who was on leave that day probably never have known about it??
Other people's work is work; none of my work is considered work.
When the foremen are working and lack hardware materials, are you responsible? Can you f***ing take responsibility? Anyway, when the foremen lack materials, they just come over and curse at us site supervisors, right? Does it make any difference?
With all these problems, do they ultimately lie with the company or with the obscure employees who resigned?
Anyway, once employees resign, everyone will just say, “The people who needed to leave have left,” completely washing their hands of the problem.
It's still the world of occupational safety. Site supervisors still have to listen to occupational safety, listen to the foremen, and follow orders from all kinds of people, without disobeying.
Want to come here to work as a site supervisor? Welcome!
(This article is not attacking site supervisors or occupational-safety staff. It is about sharing my real experiences from the work I have done with others. The fact is that being a site supervisor is exhausting and undignified. Other people will never understand because they are not site supervisors.)