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Read the community guidelines1. The system fully complies with the Labor Standards Act (although the salary statement calculates daily wages based on the number of days and deducts national holidays, so the monthly salary is not fixed, it is definitely higher than the agreed-upon base salary as long as you do not take leave)
2. There is an attendance bonus, gifts for the three major festivals, a year-end bonus, a red envelope for the first workday after the Lunar New Year, overtime pay calculated by the hourly wage, a lunch subsidy of NT$60 per working day, and performance bonuses (depending on the position)
3. There is an annual company banquet (everyone receives a cash prize) and employee trips
4. There is a garage for cars and scooters
5. If work is not involved, most of the time colleagues are easy to get along with, regardless of age
6. You can bring your own lunch dishes to steam (you still receive the lunch allowance, so it is very economical)
7. No makeup or formal attire is required (except for sales staff); just be comfortable and neat (slippers are acceptable in the office)
8. If your child gets out of school somewhat earlier than your workday ends, you can go pick them up and take them home or bring them back to the company (as long as it does not take too long, the company can accommodate it); likewise, if your child attends evening school, you can come to work a little later
9. Once your own work is finished, you can leave on time; overtime is usually not required
10. Unless you take leave too frequently, no one will ask about the reason for your leave
11. You will definitely gain skills that cannot be learned at school, e.g., sales, prepress skills, etc. (which can be used in similar industries)
12. Free snacks and fruit are available (there is a shrine in the office, so offerings are sometimes available to eat, or food manufacturers give them as gifts)
13. Educational background is not considered when hiring or setting pay. I have a bachelor’s degree, but the minimum education level among managers is only elementary school, and the boss does not care either—as long as you can do the work, that is enough. This should count as an advantage, right (?) However, the quality of the people…depends on what each person can accept
1. Smoking is prohibited only indoors, so you will definitely smell cigarette smoke at the entrance, as well as the secondhand smoke on people who have just come back inside after smoking
2. As long as you help with someone else’s work once, that work will become your responsibility (the reason given is: “You’ve learned it, so you may have a chance to become a manager,” and they also say that everything is the company’s business and you are not allowed to refuse—using specious arguments to dump it on subordinates…)
3. Managers often spend time chatting with other people and then tell me how busy they are… (I proactively take over her work, and she still tells me she is busy and assigns more work to me…)
4. Many things were not mentioned during the interview (the HR representative only knew some details at the time). After I joined and raised the issues, the only conclusion I received was, “You were supposed to do it anyway.”
5. It is supposedly fine that phones cannot be used at work (there is a deduction from pay), but the sales staff or boss love sending things via LINE, so you have to use it while employees are not allowed to…
6. If you do not answer the phone within two rings, you will be scolded. You also have to recognize the voices of customers and the boss, and you must speak gently (the important point is that most calls are actually for other people; I spend all day transferring calls, receiving faxes, calling taxis, etc.…)
7. You have to take turns working half-days on holidays, but you are actually doing someone else’s work…
8. You must go downstairs to use the restroom (the office is on the second floor), so people with bad knees should be careful
9. Some managers are very idle and constantly watch the surveillance cameras to see what you are doing
10. After a manager teaches you duties that are not part of your own position, they will say, “The more things you learn, the more you can rotate between positions in the future” (unbelievable). Generally speaking, job rotation is something you request yourself, or is needed when you are unsuitable for a position, but that is not the manager’s understanding… Normally, knowing more should make you eligible for a raise, but here you are asked to learn duties outside your position for the sake of job rotation. As long as a position is short-staffed, you may be transferred to a position completely unrelated to the one you applied for… Apparently, doing someone else’s work is considered only natural @@
11. There are raises based on performance evaluations, but the increases are barely noticeable
12. People who are relatives, blood relations, or shareholders of the boss are basically all at the managerial level. Unless you have worked there for ten years or there is a shortage of managers, promotion is unlikely (no matter how many things you know or how capable you are, that is not the point…)
13. Management meetings are held in even-numbered months, and managers are responsible for preparing presentations. Normally, you only need to provide the information to the manager, but the manager will pressure people by saying that the boss wants it done… Example: I once suggested that repeated content in the data did not need to be presented together, but Manager A said: “The boss told you to do it, so just do it. You have so many opinions; it will be difficult for you to get by in the industry in the future…” Huh?
14. Apart from becoming familiar with the company’s internal procedures over time, you basically have to personally teach the managers computer skills outside their job duties (but even after you teach them, they will still only make you do it…). Maybe I have already developed the habit of finding solutions myself, so I cannot stand people who do not use what they have been taught… (some have not even searched for solutions themselves)
15. You will also do many miscellaneous tasks… I cannot be bothered to explain them in detail… You have to try to look as busy as possible so that you will not be assigned other people’s work. For example, if I finish my work early and look relatively free, I will be assigned work from another position. If I say, “I am busy, please wait a moment,” the manager may actually reply that they did not hear me… (sigh)
16. There are people here who like to exaggerate other people’s shortcomings, people who think they can do things but others cannot, incompetent people, people who refuse to acknowledge their own problems, and people who take leave very frequently…
17. They do not like people who resist and push back, because they are afraid those people will negatively influence the other employees