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Read the community guidelines1. Once every two months, there is a birthday celebration meal.
2. There are spring banquets, mid-year gatherings, and Christmas karaoke.
3. The year-end banquet raffle offers at least NT$3,000 in shopping credit.
4. Working at the company is very flexible; basically, no one manages you.
All of the advantages come with conditions.
1. You have to pay NT$300 per month for the employee welfare fund.
2. There are many company gatherings, but you cannot choose what everyone wants to eat; instead, you have to accommodate the boss’s tastes. Everyone also has to drink—pretending to be drunk or otherwise avoiding it is not allowed. The events always run until after 10 p.m. before they let people leave, with absolutely no consideration for employees who also have children to look after at home. Some colleagues even get so drunk that they cannot walk home.
3. The raffle prizes are not cash; you have to exchange receipts for cash. In addition, you must have been employed for a full year to qualify for the raffle. For example, if you joined on February 1, 2019, the one-year qualification is not considered to be met on February 1, 2020; you only qualify on February 1, 2021. The company calculates leave the same way.
4. The company’s definition of “freedom” is that you do everything yourself. If your computer breaks, there is no MIS department, so you have to figure out how to take time off yourself. When the company’s servers were hijacked by hackers, a month passed and the infected computers still could not be used. During that time, no one helped you find a solution; your supervisor would only say, “You can use your own phone to receive emails” (via webmail). All shipping orders had to be manually entered, there was no ERP available, and customers complained about the products constantly. There was no FAE or QC team to handle issues quickly, so the sales department just had to take the customers’ abuse.
In short, it is astonishing that this company has managed to survive for 20 years without going under. If you want to join just to coast until retirement, you can give it a try, but I cannot guarantee that you will get an easy position (the long-time employees have already taken all the spots) or that the company will still be around in five years.