迦勒廣告事業有限公司

1. The company’s location is very convenient.

2. The interview was pleasant, and they didn’t ask overly personal questions. The interview lasted more than 30 minutes.

3. Working hours are 8:30–17:30, which seems different from what was previously provided. Maybe they have been adjusted? If you are late, they now follow the regulations under the Labor Standards Act, and there is no unauthorized absence as others have mentioned. I joined this year.

4. Labor and health insurance and group insurance are provided, and my actual salary is reported for both labor insurance and pension contributions. I was enrolled in the group insurance on my first day of work.

5. I’m in sales, and the salary and bonuses offered are very attractive. The boss and senior colleagues are very helpful.

6. The company provides motorcycles.

7. The most appealing thing is that the business is ongoing, there is no vicious competition over major accounts internally, and resources are allocated fairly. Since joining after the Lunar New Year, I haven’t received fewer resources than senior colleagues, and the administrative staff are very helpful.

8. I may still be inexperienced, but I feel that things aren’t as scary as described in the previous reviews. I only saw those reviews after recommending that a friend apply for an internal position and she told me the company had a terrible reputation. It’s also possible that I just haven’t encountered anything particularly bad yet.

9. It’s a Christian company, which I only recently found out. I’m Taoist myself, but the company has no religious atmosphere at all. The executive assistant is the boss’s wife, which I also only recently learned, but it doesn’t feel like a family business.

10. Nothing expresses satisfaction better than seeing the amount of salary you receive.

1. I find parking difficult. It takes a long time to find a parking space every time. You can rent a parking space downstairs from the company, but you have to pay for it yourself.

2. Sales staff have to clock in and out, and if you can’t make it back to the office in time, you can request official leave. It’s a bit troublesome.

3. The company has around a dozen employees. I joined at the beginning of this year, and apart from the year-end banquet, there aren’t many employee activities, so colleagues don’t really interact with one another.

4. If you really like becoming friends with your colleagues, this may not be a good fit. Compared with my previous job, we don’t have conflicts, but we aren’t familiar with one another either. Sales staff are usually not in the office, and the administrative staff eat their meals separately during break time.

5. Sales staff have to report their performance regularly. If your performance does not meet the target, you will be monitored closely. During my first few months, I felt that people disliked me, but after I produced results, I realized I had probably been overthinking it.

6. Sales staff do not receive fuel subsidies, but when traveling elsewhere on business, you can apply for accommodation expenses.

7. What I dislike most is that the air conditioning is extremely cold. The company has an open-plan layout with a phone booth, meeting room, and office area. The air conditioning is freezing; the administrative staff wear long sleeves to work almost every day or bring thick jackets. The company provides a water dispenser, but when it runs out of water, you have to replace it yourself.

8. The company’s way of doing things is quite rigid, and it will offend many people. I heard that someone tried to use resignation as leverage to ask for a raise, but failed, hahaha. Basically, this is a company that recent graduates should not join.

9. According to the administrative staff, they need to work off-site. You can use a company vehicle or choose to take transportation yourself, but this is explained clearly during the interview, including confirming whether you can ride a motorcycle, so they don’t really object. When my friend interviewed for an administrative position, the executive assistant directly told them that motorcycle-riding skills were required. My friend couldn’t ride a motorcycle, so they were not hired.

If you enjoy being abused, or feel that your submissive nature is not strong enough, and you also happen to love eating big pancakes, please rush to join this company. Thank you.

I. Violations of the Labor Standards Act

1. Working hours are 8:00–18:00, with scheduled lunch break from 12:00–13:00, for a total of 9 working hours. There is no overtime pay, and working more than 9 hours also does not qualify for overtime pay.

2. Clocking in at 8:00 is considered late. Being late by up to 30 minutes results in a NT$300 deduction; arriving after 8:30 is considered half a day of absence without leave. If you happen to have annual leave remaining, it will automatically be used to offset the absence. Absence without leave results in double-pay deductions, meaning you effectively work for nothing for the entire day.

3. The company has more than five employees but has not established a labor and health insurance unit in accordance with the Labor Standards Act, instead enrolling employees only through a trade union.

4. Employees’ salaries are all above the minimum wage, but the boss is only willing to insure them at the minimum wage for labor and health insurance purposes. There is no labor pension contribution because the boss does not want to spend more money.

5. The Labor Standards Act stipulates that, apart from leave deductions and employees’ self-paid portions of labor and health insurance, base salary may not be deducted. However, the boss uses many pretexts to make salary deductions, leaving some employees with only a little over NT$10,000 per month. To survive, they can only work delivery jobs after hours and on days off to earn extra money.

II. Illegal conduct

1. The boss asks employees to provide the bank account details and ID numbers of the employees themselves and their relatives and friends, then uses this information to pretend to be property owners when signing contracts with construction and property-sales companies. The boss deceives and misleads employees into believing that doing so will not result in legal liability, but if this is later investigated, they are highly likely to be prosecuted and charged with fraud.

III. The boss is very stingy

1. Four years after establishing the company, the boss paid NT$4 million in full for a car; bought four houses and an office on Zhongxiao East Road, with real estate assets reportedly worth up to NT$100 million, yet complains to employees that he is paying too much in wages and is not making any money, asking whether he should pay them less.

2. Job listings on 104 and 1111 claim that there are employee trips, but in reality there are none. I heard that there has only been one in the six years since the company was established.

There are absolutely no pros. Everything written on 104 about the benefits is a lie: there is no afternoon tea, no employee gatherings, and no group insurance.

I applied for an administrative position, but was then told to take on the work of an engineering sales position, and there were no bonuses to receive. I helped the assistant handle the subcontracting of banner removal and assign the work to contractors, but the bonus went to the assistant (his wife is the assistant), and they never told you that there was a banner-removal bonus. The bonus system was completely opaque and utterly ridiculous. If you bring it up, they might say that administrative staff do not get bonuses, but his wife is also an administrative employee and receives bonuses while having other people do the work. During the interview, they said both sides should be honest with each other, but the company itself did not uphold that at all. It was completely untrustworthy.

You can tell from small details whether the boss is stingy. There was no afternoon tea, group insurance, transportation allowance, or anything like that. Everything written on 104 was a lie. Everyone, run away—do not take this terrible job under any circumstances. During the interview, they told you that you would only go out once or twice a month to deliver documents, but that was completely untrue! During my 14 days there, I was only at the company for 3 or 4 days; the rest of the time I was out doing fieldwork. They also asked me to supervise engineering projects, which was completely outside my responsibilities. And even if I went out, they did not reimburse any transportation expenses. They expected me to rent a scooter, and when I asked whether the rental cost would be reimbursed, they said no. At the time, they had said that I needed to have the ability to get around. Of course I have a driver's license and can ride a scooter, but if you do not pay for my scooter rental, am I renting it for nothing? This was completely different from what they said in the interview.

The assistant kept trying to persuade me to ride and rent a scooter, but the company had no group insurance, so if anything happened, I would be responsible for it myself! When I told her I wanted to take the MRT because I had already bought a monthly pass, she asked whether there were many scooter rentals nearby. I said there were quite a few, and she responded that I could rent one since I knew how to ride. Utterly ridiculous! Even when I said I wanted to take the MRT, they told me to manage my own time better. Administrative staff are expected to have transportation mobility, but the point is that I applied for an administrative position—helping you with fieldwork is already doing you a favor! The boss and his wife were incredibly demanding.^^

Then, on my first or second day, they asked me to find a restaurant for the year-end banquet. It was already almost the end of the year, and they only then asked someone to make a reservation, when everywhere was nearly fully booked! A year-end banquet is something that can be arranged early; waiting until the end of the year shows that the company does not really consider its employees—it treats such things as optional. They said the only requirements were a private room and a round table. Here comes the ridiculous part: after I had found options and read them out, he immediately said no to Longdu, saying the exterior looked terrible—LOL. Then I mentioned Pengyuan, and he replied that it was not good and the food was terrible. Finally, he said I could look at the Grand Hyatt. You already know what he wanted, so why ask someone else to search? Why not just tell me directly that you wanted me to book it? There were only 10 people, a pitifully small number. Now I finally understand why they always have so few employees and can never fill their positions! The company has huge problems, while the boss and his wife have an unrealistically high opinion of themselves.

I applied for an administrative position, but there were so many tasks that they could never be finished. Before you had completed one task, they would keep assigning you more. I was somewhat overwhelmed, and the assistant even said, “When we offered you 38,000, we told you there would be a lot of work.” The point is that your workday is 10 hours with a 1-hour break—9 hours of work. They are simply counting the extra hour worked each day into the monthly salary, okay? And 38,000 is before labor and health insurance deductions, not after them! Do you really think that is a lot? The work was extremely miscellaneous and completely unreasonable.

There are many other ridiculous things I will not even mention. See for yourselves. If you are very self-sacrificing and want to do charity work, feel free to join and be exploited. That is all I have to say. The boss and his wife will not thank you; they will only take everything for granted.^^

I seriously can't think of any.

If you aren't short of money and have too much of it with nowhere to spend it, and want to do charity, public welfare, or accumulate good deeds and blessings, you might consider this place.

After working hard for more than two years, the year-end bonus was only a little over 10,000 (although the facts prove that I alone helped the company earn a lot of money, with seven-figure net profits). Although the year-end bonus depends on how much the boss feels like giving, everyone's average is absurdly low.

You have to clock in at 8 a.m., and they tell you this is preparation time for work. There is a one-hour lunch break, but sometimes there is no break at all; if you try to rest in the afternoon instead, they tell you not to sleep. You get off work at 6 p.m., and they even try to convince you that the company is wonderful and considerate for helping you avoid rush-hour traffic. In reality, they are forcing you to work extra hours without overtime pay. Staying after 6 p.m. to handle work matters also never results in overtime pay.

The boss often tries to make money by occasionally persuading you to do things in a gray area. If you cannot get out of it, he will feel that you are incompetent.

They will force you to take on work that colleagues throughout the company had previously done and then refused to accept again. They even told a 30-year-old woman to go alone in the evening and on weekends to Taipei Main Station and Wanhua to help him find lists of homeless people, simply because he wanted to do good deeds. He then tells you that you are thinking too badly and making things too complicated about them. After you refuse, he lectures you with all kinds of moral principles again. Other people's children are the ones who get taken advantage of endlessly, right!

Every time, calculating the salary takes a long time because of all the deductions. Often, you do not even receive the legally required basic minimum wage. How are the deductions calculated? It depends on the boss—he deducts whatever he wants. Being late by up to 30 minutes in the morning results in a deduction (more than one hour's wages is deducted); being more than 30 minutes late results in half a day's pay being deducted and an absence without leave being recorded. Forgetting to clock in also leads directly to a deduction. Labor and health insurance have continuously been illegally registered through an occupational union. Many people have raised this with the boss, but nothing ever comes of it. There are no retirement contributions at all. Business mileage, phone bills, and even basic refreshments for clients when going out—all are paid out of your own pocket. Contractors' wages are sometimes also deducted from employees' salaries during construction (sometimes by several thousand dollars at a time, and sometimes even more). Contracts given to homeowners contain one-sided, unfair clauses, and then they teach you how to package and present them. They demand that contractors work quickly and maintain quality, while also requiring employees to constantly haggle with contractors over prices.

In short, there are all kinds of deductions. More than 80% of what we earn for the company goes to the boss, and even part of our basic salary depends on him. We are basically spending our own money to support the boss's entire family, only to starve ourselves.

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The boss is a cunning, ungrateful, classless cheapskate.

Not only does he provide none of the employee benefits we should receive, he doesn’t even enroll employees in labor and health insurance through the normal channels, instead insuring us through a labor union. Needless to say, he has no intention of paying into the pension system either. He also violates the Labor Standards Act: excessive working hours, deducting an entire day’s pay for taking sick leave, docking pay for being late, treating a late leave request as an absence without leave, deducting double pay for absences without leave, not paying overtime, making employees absorb costs, and offering no transportation allowance or any other benefits.

Even when employees have company dinners after work, we still have to pay for ourselves and aren’t allowed to skip them. It’s utterly ridiculous. A whole group of longtime employees who helped start the company with him have left, yet he remains in denial, convinced that the veteran employees were greedy and wanted to betray him. He completely fails to recognize that he is the disgusting, greedy one who exploits employees to the fullest.

“Do you have a dream? No matter how big! Write it down and tell me—I’ll help you achieve your dream, because I’ve already helped so-and-so achieve theirs!” On your very first day at work, the boss starts selling you grand promises. If you enjoy daydreaming, feel free to come here and experience it for yourself—the boss will draw you grand visions together with you.

Then you’ll discover that the boss has clear logic and a sharp way of thinking, and will teach you all kinds of schemes for manipulating others: clients, property owners, vendors, competitors, and employees. When you go to meetings with him, you’ll also learn how to insult competitors in front of property owners without using profanity (basically, all kinds of badmouthing).

The boss buys cars and houses himself (as far as I know, he has more than two in Taipei), watches (worth six figures or more), and an office in a prime location, followed by seven-figure renovations (you can look up the location). Yet he told me that the company’s employees were paid too much. Gifts for clients during the three major holidays? Sure—but there’s no need to give anything to his own employees.

In short, it’s all incredibly over-the-top. Anyone who wants to broaden their horizons can come and see for themselves~

The boss constantly finds new ways to show just how low he can go. At the company, we’re all supposed to call him “the big boss” (though apparently none of the old employees do). The bonus percentage is pitifully small, yet it still has to be split among many people, and all kinds of costs are charged to employees. Even when the boss wants to invest in a project himself, he’ll tell you: “Look, it’s true that you’re paying part of the money now, but you’ll also get a share of the profits later.” But his real plan is that after you resign, the entire project belongs to him and all the profits go to him (because even though the previous employees paid part of it, he never said he would share the profits with us after making money).

Then he told female employees to develop a temporary staffing business, asking them to go alone to places like Wanhua to look for lists of homeless people. When they refused out of concern for their personal safety, he asked them whether they knew what workplace ethics were. Seriously, why doesn’t the boss ask his wife or daughter to do it?

A large number of old employees resigned around the same time. When only two employees remained, the boss and the others told us there would be at least six months of overtime pay. But after the company hired its first batch of new employees, they immediately went back on their word after only two months (and deducted huge amounts under all sorts of pretexts). They even thought they had given us too much and shouldn’t have given us anything at all. They used all kinds of petty tactics to force the two employees who had been willing to stay out, including openly telling all the employees during a meeting, when only new hires were present, that one employee was leaking information to former employees (the key point being that they had no evidence)….. Employees’ base salaries were also absurdly low, and money would even be deducted from them. Many people could barely support themselves and had to take second jobs.

Finally, after all the old employees had left, the boss happened to find out that we had arranged to go out for a meal (we had made the plans long before resigning; some of us had been introduced through one another and were friends in the first place…). The boss then said directly in a meeting: “You have to choose whether to stay and continue working at the company, or leave the company and go out to eat.” As a result, I suddenly lost several colleagues…. RIP……..

There are far, far too many other things to mention. Anyone thinking of going there—please think very carefully!

The boss is extremely good at talking about dreams, making you feel during the interview that success is actually so close. Only after joining the company do you realize that everyone was brainwashed into coming here. They tell you one thing today and change it the next, letting you know what it means for orders to change from morning to night. Every unspoken rule of sales work is here: no fuel allowance, no attendance bonus, no phone bill subsidy, no overtime pay, and no compensatory leave. You have to arrive an hour early in the morning unconditionally; you get fined for being late, and being half an hour late is counted as half a day of absence. They teach you how to use different identities to obtain other people's information, how to disguise contracts that only benefit the company with legal clauses, how to treat competitors as enemies, and how to inflate prices excessively for inexperienced customers. But! He still tells you that the company is a company with principles: you can give customers kickbacks, but you must not let the company lose money. If you do not collect payment from a customer, he will tell you to have it deducted directly from your salary, and so on. In short, the advantage is that your legs belong to you—run!

Violating the Labor Standards Act is this company's most basic principle. It starts with deliberately refusing to enroll employees in labor and health insurance. Then you are required to clock in an hour early every day. They tell you that this is flexible working time, but you cannot lie down and sleep or use your phone. Honestly, it feels like they are hiring civil servants, not salespeople. The boss decides the sales results. If the team gets a case today and he assigns it to you, then you get a bonus; otherwise, you cannot ask him for one, or it is considered stealing. All the good sales territories are held by the veterans—but not all veterans are treated equally. The company tells the veterans that as long as they bring in sales, that is enough; everyone else is just waiting for them to throw them scraps to eat. Every day you run around outside just to find ignorant members of the public willing to believe the scripts they have prepared, saying things like they will manage their money for them. In short, it is just a scam. Then, when you come back, they give you motivational platitudes, saying that this is simply the norm in the industry. Finally, one thing I want to say is that the boss really makes a lot of money. I hear he has bought a wonderful office and many properties and so on, but a whole lot of us are still struggling every month, wondering whether we should take on a part-time job just to get through the month.