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Read the community guidelinesThe environment is very minimalist (because there are few people—fewer than ten employees including the boss), there is a one-and-a-half-hour lunch break, the company holds group meals, supervisors are friendly and enthusiastic at first, and the company provides afternoon tea once a week.
1. Things they will not tell you during the interview:
★Fines for mistakes (they only dare ask employees to pay in cash and do not dare deduct it from the payslip)......Regardless of how big or small the mistake is, it depends on the supervisor’s mood.
Examples:
1.https://imgur.com/BsKAybP
2.https://imgur.com/fJ2OfLM
3.https://imgur.com/2J4ouoY
4.https://imgur.com/U7nYau0
Things like this. Of course, making mistakes is not right, but the fines start at NT$100, and there is no standard,
so I strongly advise anyone who wants to join not to make any mistakes at all.
★Rotating duty employee
The company has not hired a cleaning lady; there are only cleaners specifically responsible for cleaning the restrooms throughout the building,
so employees have to take turns cleaning the common areas, one person for a month at a time. Supervisor B is a germaphobe, so besides having to arrive at the company early,
you also have to clean thoroughly.
★There may be overtime pay, but I have never seen anyone apply for it.
★There is no year-end banquet; there is a spring banquet instead. New employees who have been there for less than a year will be singled out when the major prizes are drawn, and if they win one of the top prizes,
they are required to treat everyone to a meal.
★The accounting/HR department has an old personnel regulation stating that annual leave must be requested three days in advance
to be approved. However, they will not proactively tell you about this regulation (you only find out when you ask about taking leave).
2. The company’s strange culture
★The company uses SKYPE to communicate with colleagues and customers, but the supervisor says she hopes everyone will explain things clearly verbally
and not keep typing or chatting. Yet she likes to announce things in the SKYPE group
and requires everyone to reply immediately to confirm receipt; anyone who replies late will be called out.
★You may lose your privacy because Supervisor B really likes to stare at employees’ screens
to monitor whether they are doing something else during work. She may stand up and look, or walk over and look beside you. Even after finishing your work, you cannot use your phone,
because phones are not allowed during work! So colleagues hide in the restroom to use them for a moment. But the supervisor can, because she is contacting people about work (?)
★In addition to fining people for mistakes, Supervisor B will ask you all kinds of things like, “Are you using your brain?” “Why aren’t you using your brain?” “Please use your brain!”
Regardless of whether everything was actually your fault, she really wants to know whether everyone is using their brain.
★The boss does not encourage overtime, but if you leave on time, the supervisor will ask whether you have too little work.
If you leave late, the supervisor will question you about why you still have not done much despite not having much work in hand.
★The person who makes mistakes is always the newcomer. Supervisor B often applies double standards. When something went wrong, she once said,
“It absolutely could not have been XXX” (a veteran employee).
★Extremely stingy
Examples: Copying is cheaper than printing, so you have to print one copy and then photocopy it; the copier must always be turned off during lunch;
when purchasing various daily necessities, the accountant is required to buy the cheapest but durable option; delivery slips must be dispatched correctly in a single attempt,
because each extra dispatch costs NT$60 and is very expensive, so employees have to pay for it themselves......and so on.
★Veteran employees are very good at spending time watching newcomers work, waiting until you make a mistake or fail to do something before immediately pointing it out.
Some veterans sometimes instruct you on how to do things, but when questioned by the supervisor, they pretend it had nothing to do with them,
and they also treat you with a top-down attitude (this is purely my personal impression).
★Supervisor B often says some very strange things.
Examples: “We get so many days of annual leave in February, yet everyone still receives a full month’s salary” (doesn’t she???),
(possibly during the annual salary adjustment) “Didn’t the boss give you all a raise? There’s nothing much going on, and you still haven’t done the work properly,”
“There isn’t much for you to do, and you still don’t do it properly. The company could use the money to hire someone who can get the work done properly......”
If you make a mistake, you also have to be asked how you will improve, making colleagues follow their rules about fining people too ==
https://imgur.com/hVaVSSP
https://imgur.com/TYyyGxZ
Only the supervisors use the cleaning cloth in the pantry, but when it gets dirty, everyone is expected to jointly maintain its cleanliness??
https://imgur.com/ogvAGrL
★After submitting your resignation, you may be dismissed without warning.
Example: A colleague received a LINE message at six-something in the morning saying, “Your last day is today,” or something similar.
Also, the accountant is not HR and may not understand the Labor Standards Act at all, so you have to protect your own rights.
It is recommended to call the Labor Bureau directly to clarify things—it is the fastest way. When there is a dispute, they will shirk responsibility and pass the buck back and forth.
Even if you are polite from beginning to end, they will only think you are deliberately causing trouble, and their attitude is extremely poor.
The above is provided as a reference for anyone who wants to join this company. Because the company is small, you really can learn many things;
it just depends on what each person is willing to accept and give up. The turnover rate is quite high, but there are also people who have stayed for several years.