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Read the community guidelinesThe headquarters on Section 2 of Keelung Road is reasonably convenient in terms of transportation.
1. The first floor of the headquarters used to be a flower shop, but it has closed; the office is on the second floor. The company currently specializes in floral arrangements for funeral venues. The headquarters is dirty, disorganized, and cluttered with things of all sizes piled up randomly. Dogs wander around, and you can smell cigarette smoke everywhere. Behind the office is an illegally constructed corrugated-metal structure.
2. For me, this was a very unacceptable company and interview experience.
3. When I interviewed for another position, I was interviewed by Chairman Wu (female) and General Manager Huang (male). The chairwoman was around 60 years old, and the general manager was slightly older. They are work partners as well as boyfriend and girlfriend. The interview lasted from 4:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Sometimes they interviewed me together, and sometimes they took turns leaving to handle other matters and interviewed me separately. Otherwise, they interviewed me while listening to each other on the phone berate clients for being greedy, employees for being stupid, funeral homes for taking money, and so on.
They did not act like they were conducting an interview at all. They kept criticizing several former employees, saying that they had cheated them and the company out of money and that they intended to sue them, and so on. It really felt like they were not trying to interview someone, but were looking for someone to solve the company’s existing problems for free.
4. They directly asked the applicant to answer questions about their current staffing difficulties, labor disputes, and areas where they did not understand the law on the spot—as if the applicant were a free consultant. Throughout the interview, they repeatedly named and criticized former employees, criticized current employees, cursed the government for manipulating the people, and shifted responsibility to each other dozens of times. (Oh my?! Is this a family soap opera??)
5. Although the salary on 104 was listed as negotiable, after I stated my expected salary, the general manager had a complete “explosion of temper.” He said that salary would have been perfectly possible at my previous company, but their company did not necessarily need this position. He said his own monthly salary was only 6x, yet he had to work all 30 days of the month. (The chairwoman immediately asked him, “Didn’t you get a raise?” He replied, “I got $%^").” He also said the working hours were very long. The position I interviewed for was one the chairwoman had decided on her own to recruit for; he personally thought the company did not need the position at all. What he wanted was a lawyer, and he planned to open a law office on the first floor, where the flower shop used to be?? After saying this, he pointed at the chairwoman and said she had acted on her own initiative.... (@.@!)
The general manager added: The company has to pay your salary, plus a 6% retirement contribution, labor insurance premiums, and national health insurance premiums. These should all be counted as part of the salary. The company cannot pay you that salary, and the two-day weekend should also be counted....
6. Before the interview, applicants were supposed to fill out an 11-page interview form. I did not fill it out, explaining on the spot that all the information was the same as on 104. However, I still looked through the form, and at least three pages consisted of various **declarations of waiver. Even the blank application form stated that, after being hired, the applicant would be “voluntarily” employed under a short-term, three-month fixed-term contract; if the company required the worker to resign due to poor performance, the worker could not claim severance pay and would have to waive it completely.
7. This is a completely illegal traditional industry company. If you get the chance, you can go see how skillfully the chairwoman and general manager insult and mock each other.
8. Also, also—you need to train yourself to have an iron butt. Eat something before the interview, but do not drink water. The interview lasted from 4:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. (You could drive from Taipei to Kaohsiung in that amount of time!!). If I had not repeatedly gestured at my watch to indicate that I still had personal matters to attend to, I have no idea how late they would have continued asking questions. When I turned around, the entire office was dark—not a single light had been left on. Is this how you treat a guest????
My personal impression of the interview process and afterward was extremely negative!!