中華豪井國際股份有限公司

At the start of the job, I received a NT$200 opening red envelope and spent the entire morning slacking off while still getting paid.

I worked at that company several years ago. I don't know whether it has improved now, but I feel the chances are low. I’m sharing my thoughts because I saw that this company has posted job openings again.

My impression of that company is that it is extremely stingy, exploitative, and inhumane, and does everything possible to squeeze its employees. Also, when dealing with the boss (a middle-aged or older man), female employees should know how to protect themselves.

1. During the interview, the typical empty promise regarding salary and benefits was: “As long as you work hard and do well, the boss might give you NT$50,000 or NT$60,000.”

2. Taking one day of personal leave and having one day’s pay deducted is normal at ordinary companies, but at this company they deduct additional wages as well.

3. Employees were told to open a bank account during their lunch break. If something happened at the bank that extended the process into working hours, wages were still deducted.

4. New employees were all paid at a rate below the statutory hourly minimum wage. After working for a month, there was a “chance” (depending on the boss) of becoming regular employees, with pay barely at the edge of the statutory minimum wage.

5. When wages were paid, part was given in cash and part was transferred to a bank account. I don’t know whether that was tax evasion, haha.

6. You could get along very well simply by chatting with the boss and pretending to be busy; it didn’t matter if your professionalism was lower than that of other colleagues.

7. One day the company lost power, and the boss wouldn’t let office staff help package products. Instead, they were told to go home first, with the aim of saving an hour or two of wages.

8. Labor Day on May 1 was not a holiday because the boss said: “You’re all ‘glory’ workers, not ‘labor’ workers.”

9. Of course, there were no holiday bonuses or compensatory leave. At most, you got a rice dumpling for the Dragon Boat Festival.

10. Employees were required to work every other Saturday.

11. The boss required employees to greet him whenever they encountered him in the morning, but he himself would display his morning bad mood to employees.

12. In such an exploitative environment, the boss had the nerve to encourage employees to greet customers with a smile in order to stay in a good mood... [expletive]

13. Every office employee had to clean the entire company premises every morning. Each week, one employee was assigned as the duty worker, responsible for cleaning the toilets, washing the reverse-osmosis water dispenser, and boiling water.

14. What should you do when you’ve boiled enough water to fill the office kettle? No problem—there’s also the boss’s household water containers for you to fill. Don’t worry; just keep boiling and pouring water.

15. Near the end of the year, a sign-up sheet would be circulated asking whether employees would attend the year-end banquet karaoke. Not going was not an option; signing up was mandatory.

16. Naturally, there was a major cleaning session on Lunar New Year’s Eve, but this company had no year-end bonus or anything like that. It would only give a very paltry red envelope of no more than NT$3,000.

17. If the products sold were labeled “China OO Factory,” they were more or less ready-made generic products purchased from China and imported into Taiwan, then relabeled with the company’s own logo.

18. They really liked taking advantage of famous major brands.

19. One day there was a typhoon, and the government announced in the morning that work and school were canceled, but the company insisted on keeping employees until the end of lunch break because that made it easier to calculate wages.

20. The aesthetic quality of the product packaging design was below mainstream standards because the boss’s “feelings” had been added to it.