成易精密工業股份有限公司

No advantages

Cheng Yi Precision is a company with extremely poor management. Although this happened several years ago, when there were not yet so many similar platforms for reviewing companies one had worked for, this company has managed to keep me angry to this day, which is quite an achievement.

I already had some work experience at the time, but they still paid me the same salary as a recent university graduate. There were barely any benefits, and we worked excessive amounts of overtime.

The company's management was also extremely ridiculous. At the time, there were no dedicated cleaning staff, so every Friday after work, employees had to clean the areas assigned to them. After finishing, you still had to wait until it was confirmed that everyone had completed their part before you could leave the company!

Yes, you read that correctly: this was a company that treated its employees like elementary school students. If other employees did not clean and were still working overtime, you had to clean for them—that was what they called “teamwork.”

One day, I had something to attend to. I had finished my assigned area and told the accounting supervisor at the time (who was in a different department from mine) that I had something to do and needed to leave quickly. That female supervisor would not let me go and even demanded that I also finish the areas assigned to the colleagues who were still sitting at their desks instead of getting up to do the work before I could leave. I thought it was ridiculous. People who “wanted to work overtime” should finish their own parts first and then continue working overtime, right? Were they shamelessly waiting for someone else to clean for them so they could conveniently leave together? Naturally, only the long-time employees were shameless enough to do this; all the other newcomers obediently cleaned their own areas.

I knew I was not particularly even-tempered, but I did not raise my voice at the supervisor. I simply said nothing, turned around, stylishly changed out of my shoes, and left. I had something to do, and I had already informed her. This so-called “teamwork” management style did not make everyone cooperate more; it merely created more resentment.

The following Monday, that female supervisor said that my behavior the previous Friday had somehow affected the company and ordered me to write a letter of repentance to appease upper management; otherwise, she would have me fired.

At the time, I had a surgery scheduled and needed a month to recover. I thought they probably would not let me leave then because they were short-staffed, I was the only person handling the corresponding overseas contact, and I also needed the income. So, through a half-deceptive, half-coercive approach, they forced me to write a letter of repentance. (Later, a friend who studied law told me that the company's practice of making employees write letters of repentance and posting them on the bulletin board violated the law.) Later, once the overseas business representative returned, just as I expected, they found some excuses and dismissed me.

That accounting supervisor had also been parachuted in, and I do not know whether she is still there. I am writing this here several years later to warn everyone to choose companies carefully. It is best to avoid family-owned businesses when possible. The benefits are poor, and most family-owned companies have serious internal problems and chaos. When something goes wrong, they simply shift the blame to another department—especially a department without a family member serving as its supervisor. During an interview, a supervisor will not tell you whether they have strong backing, so unless you have thoroughly gotten to know the employees working there, it is better not to casually join and become the new sucker.