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Read the community guidelinesFreedom; you control your own working hours.
Smoke whenever you want. If work isn’t busy, you can play on your phone.
If you work shifts, it’s even more comfortable: after the night-shift supervisor assigns the work, once you finish, you can sleep if you want, play on your phone, and eat late-night snacks.
You could say it’s a place to coast into retirement. (Don’t make the above sound too blatant—the supervisors turn a blind eye.)
1. Poor management by the supervisors—you could say they don’t know how to manage, resulting in most of the employees being incompetent, while those willing to work are worked to death.
2. The company’s general manager is a foreigner whose thinking is even worse than that of an exploitative old-school boss. The goal is to maximize manpower: one person takes on several positions, with no pay raise.
3. There are hardly any benefits. Employee trips are day trips, held during employees’ days off, and the itinerary is rushed and superficial—extremely boring.
4. The year-end bonus depends on the circumstances. Even when there is one, it is distributed according to scores predetermined by the supervisors, in three categories:
1. Favorites/executive level: about 1.5–2 months’ salary
2. Average: about 0.5–1 month’s salary
3. Completely blacklisted: 0 months. This year, a production-line shift leader was stripped of their position, and while everyone else received a year-end bonus, they were the only one who didn’t. You may ask why they were removed from the position: because of internal political struggles, they became the scapegoat.
5. A company that could disappear at any time. The parent companies are Sumeeko and German Aluminum; Sumeeko pays the salaries. The company basically doesn’t make much money year after year and often operates at a loss. Sumeeko is almost unable to tolerate this subsidiary’s poor operations and may take it back at any time.
Overall:
You can go work there, but set a one-year limit and treat it as a chance to gain experience. It is simply not suitable for long-term employment. There is severe infighting among the rank-and-file employees. If you are assigned to PVD, think twice! In particular, there are three people in the control room who are the best at manipulating the supervisor, and the supervisor strongly supports them. Nothing you say will help; the company going under is the only salvation.