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1. After completing the résumé, the interviewer took out a sheet of paper and informed me that the salary for the purchasing staff position was NT$27,000 (then why require interviewees to write down their expected salary?).
2. Overtime pay can be claimed, but the hourly rate is NT$140 (which already violates the Labor Standards Act).
3. If the company has already determined the salary, could it avoid wasting interviewees’ time and post it directly on the job bank website?
Radio is played in the office, so even when no one is chatting, it doesn’t feel boring—you can listen to music.
Salary is deposited very punctually.
The company’s products are screen protectors for mobile phones and tablets. They manufacture some products themselves using laser cutting and also resell imported products, so the business seems to have potential.
Employees take turns with their colleagues (about 2–3 people) placing the lunch order for one week, and you can choose food you like.
Although the position is called an administrative assistant, it is actually more like a sales assistant. During the first two weeks, you will first go to the warehouse to learn about the products, help pack and ship orders, and learn how to identify defects in glass, etc. (If you have poor eyesight, you may want to consider whether you can put up with this, since if things are not busy later on, you may still be asked to help inspect defects in the warehouse.)
There are a great many company group chats—more than six. Occasionally, you may receive messages from the sales team placing orders on holidays, but you only need to handle them when you return to work on Monday.
There is air conditioning in the office, but the company is actually an office partitioned off inside a sheet-metal building. The temperature difference when going in and out is somewhat large, especially around noon, so be careful of heat exhaustion or catching a cold due to the repeated changes between hot and cold.
The official end of the workday is 6:30 p.m., but in practice it depends on the day’s shipping situation. The average leaving time is around 7:00 p.m. (This was not mentioned at all during the interview, perhaps because the owner usually leaves even later or earlier.) The chances of leaving punctually at 6:30 p.m. are not very high. Even if all the packages have been packed, leaving may be delayed because the courier company has not yet arrived to pick them up (so you have to say goodbye to people from the other departments~). It is best to mentally expect this job to end at 7:00 p.m.; the company only starts calculating overtime pay from 7:30 p.m.
You will always leave work together with colleagues from the warehouse department, so you do not need to worry about being left alone waiting for the courier to collect the packages. Likewise, everyone accompanies you when leaving work, and you are expected to accompany everyone too. So unless you have something urgent to do, the “atmosphere” can make it difficult to clock out and leave on your own first. (Even when the courier has collected the packages and you could leave, colleagues may occasionally chat for a couple more minutes, and you end up quietly smiling and slowly packing your bag and leaving with the group.)
In addition to briefly cleaning your assigned area every workday, the company has a weekly deep-cleaning session on Friday “after everything is finished.” In other words, after all the day’s packages have been packed and before the courier arrives to collect them, you can go clean. Therefore, you may also leave a little later on Fridays~
The company is a family-style business. Some of the brothers and sisters, as well as several employees, are relatives. The company seems to be growing and expanding, so some systems and regulations are not yet fully developed. Perhaps this will gradually improve over time in the future~
As for relationships with colleagues, you’ll have to experience the warmth and coldness for yourself. Most of the time, the radio is playing at work and people rarely chat. At noon, the lights are turned off and everyone rests at their own desk. Regarding the work itself, sometimes everyone is too busy to teach you; other times, you need to have fairly strong comprehension skills, or things may sound very unclear...
If you can accept all of the above and come to work simply hoping to earn money from a stable job, this place may be a good fit for you...