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Read the community guidelinesPaid salary, the office has air conditioning,
I. Work locations:
1. Taichung City Environmental Protection Bureau (on-site once every 14 days / 8 hours),
2. Dali Company (08:00–17:30; lunch break 12:00–13:00 is unpaid)
II. Employment benefits and compensation: 38K (guaranteed base salary 25,200 + meal allowance 1,800 + professional allowance 5,000 + position allowance 4,000 + project allowance 4,000 = 40K − labor and health insurance = approximately 38K)
III. The interview takes approximately 30 minutes.
IV. The working environment is extremely poor: the seats are very small, the stationery is barely usable, the computers are very slow, the chairs are uncomfortable, and there are almost no professional books available for reference.
VI. Poor supervisors, nice coworkers, and a boss who does not care.
Run for your life! Run for your life! Run for your life! Run for your life! Run for your life!
My advice is: don’t do it, absolutely don’t do it, really don’t do it—even if you’re short of money, don’t do it.
There are so many companies in Taiwan; no matter how you count them, they’re all better than this one.
The following is purely a personal experience shared for reference only. Any similarities are purely coincidental.
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I. Staffing:
CEO (the main business is not here; this is not their primary business)
Supervisor A and Supervisor B (both are very impatient about everything)
Administration (another supervisor manages your projects and everything else you do)
Project manager
Project engineer (assistant)
Graphic designer
II. Employment contract
Upon joining, I was not given two copies of an employment contract to sign.
After joining, there was no actual employee training; there was only an introduction to the content of the work assignments.
The actual employee training consisted of simulated photography, filling out environmental regulations-related questionnaires independently, having supervisors help revise the questionnaires, and scanning and making color photocopies with notes for inclusion in tender proposals. After joining the company, the supervisors and administrative staff did not train or guide new employees; you had to “make your own effort” and “grow on your own.” This included administrative matters: the location of stationery (find it yourself; the items are over there), the location of the company car (they send you a photo and tell you it is parked in a nearby lot, then you have to find it yourself), and being the duty person (each day, the duty person has to help order lunch and drinks) (at your own expense). Every Friday from 17:00 to 17:30, employees take turns cleaning: sweeping, mopping, taking out the trash, and wiping the sofas.
Projects: the content of the work assignments (the contract is here; read it yourself), execution methods (ask me if something comes up, but I won’t tell you even if you ask), matters involving communication with the client, and so on.
III. Workplace salary and benefits: 38K. However, everything other than the money is worlds apart—like a wasteland of poverty and hardship, pieced together from broken bricks and rotten tiles; its essence remains unchanged: broken bricks and rotten tiles.
IV. People:
The workplace environment is terrible because supervisors are frequently emotional (throwing pens and shouting profanity at people on the phone), use verbally aggressive language (“How can you not even know this?”), deliberately distribute workloads unfairly (for example, if there are five tasks that should be divided equally, they deliberately give me three—“You’ve done them all anyway”), communicate unclearly (“I don’t know,” “I’m not clear,” “Shouldn’t you know best?”), repeatedly ask questions without successfully communicating, shift blame and cover for one another, deliberately suppress you through emotional abuse (hoping you will agree with what they say), engage in workplace silent treatment, and call you into a small room to “have a talk.”
The perfect embodiment of workplace bullying!
I’m telling you, run away quickly!
V. Professional assistance: There are no relevant books or assistance. Much of the project content is “passed down” from information found online, and all the relevant books were brought in by me.
Win-win cooperation is the trend of the future. Best wishes.