東南亞國際事業有限公司

A small, family-like company with a kitchen, where lunch is cooked.

Xizhi. The owner is Indonesian, and most of the employees are Indonesian migrant workers. The working environment is extremely filthy: the warehouse is full of rats, fleas, and cockroaches. In 2016, tens of thousands were spent disinfecting the entire building and exterminating fleas, but they returned not long afterward (there were too many rats). The company keeps cats, dogs, and birds. Cats coexist in the food-packaging area on the second floor, and there is also a cookie-frying kitchen and warehouse on the fourth floor. Dogs are on the first-floor cookie-frying kitchen floor, where employees often have to work amid the stench of feces and urine. Birds share the kitchen space above the stoves, along with feather dust and insects.

Overtime pay does not comply with the Labor Standards Act, and neither does the salary.

There are many Indonesian migrant workers (the company previously often hired illegal migrant workers and was caught multiple times), but the wages of the Indonesian migrant workers are extremely poor; even their overtime pay and year-end bonuses are very inadequate.

Although the company claims to make food and cookies, the environment is extremely horrifying, with huge numbers of tiny insects and fleas. Cockroaches and rats are often found in the raw materials. Rat feces and urine have even been found in the food, but employees are simply told to pick them out and continue frying and packaging the products. Dead rats often decompose in inaccessible areas, producing a terrible stench that employees have to endure for two or three weeks while working.

Expired food is very common. The owner likes to order huge quantities from Indonesia and stockpile them, but Xizhi is humid, so many areas—the basement and the first, third, and fourth floors—become moldy. No dehumidification is done; only the packaging area on the second floor has a dehumidifier. Strange trash is often found inside the food and cookies: cockroaches, bird feathers, hair, wood chips, stones, screws, and even metal pieces and razor blades are packaged inside the cookies.

The owner often misspeaks and does not keep his word. Yesterday he says one thing and today another, then scolds people for doing what he said: “Why did you do 1? When did I ever say 1?” When business is very good, the owner buys cars—he has bought three, including two BMWs—while complaining that employees use too much toilet paper. He often buys packages online indiscriminately; when employees receive them and they turn out to be scams, he scolds the employees. The owner often borrows company money and forgets to repay it. When the accounts do not reconcile, he makes the accountant use personal money to cover the company funds. After repeatedly forgetting, he later says that IOUs should be written. Even the owner's private household expenses—infant formula, diapers, and private meals—are charged under the company tax ID. The accountant often ends up acting as a secretary and handling many unrelated tasks, including paying phone and parking bills; even repairing machines, packaging, and shipping products are part of the job.

Although lunch is provided, the owner buys ingredients at the market and likes to stockpile large quantities, such as buying large amounts of fish and storing them in the freezer for more than a year. Even when the food smells rotten, it is often still cooked and served as employee meals.